INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Organism causing “sulfur granules” in cervicofacial actinomycosis?
Actinomyces israelii
Antibody most specific for anti-synthetase syndrome?
Anti-Jo-1
Antibody associated with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration in ovarian cancer?
Anti-Yo (anti-Purkinje cell antibody)
Physician who performed the first successful ether anesthesia demonstration in 1846?
William T.G. Morton
Ion channel mutation in Brugada syndrome type 1?
SCN5A (sodium channel)
Organism causing meningoencephalitis after freshwater exposure?
Naegleria fowleri
Antibody in mixed connective tissue disease?
Anti-U1 RNP
EEG finding in hepatic encephalopathy?
Triphasic waves
Ethical principle requiring physicians to act in the patient's best interest?
Beneficence
Cardiac manifestation of Fabry disease?
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Antibiotic causing gray baby syndrome?
Chloramphenicol
Classic skin manifestation of dermatomyositis?
Gottron papules
Neurotransmitter deficiency in restless legs syndrome?
Dopamine
Ethical framework for greatest good?
Utilitarianism
Antibody associated with anti-synthetase syndrome causing interstitial lung disease?
Anti-Jo-1
Diagnostic test that distinguishes Entamoeba histolytica from E. dispar?
Stool antigen detection or PCR
Crystal characteristics in calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease?
HLA-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8
Protein accumulated in progressive supranuclear palsy?
Tau protein (4-repeat tau)
Physician who described circulation of blood?
William Harvey
Diagnostic criterion for ARDS (PaO₂/FiO₂ ratio)?
<300 mmHg (severe: <100)
Organism transmitted by Ixodes tick causing human granulocytic anaplasmosis?
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Organ most commonly affected first in granulomatosis with polyangiitis?
Upper respiratory tract
Brainstem structure affected in "one-and-a-half syndrome"?
Paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF) and ipsilateral MLF
Legal age for medical consent for emancipated minors in most U.S. states?
Age 18.
Varies by state; emancipated minors can consent regardless of age
Pleural fluid pH in empyema?
<7.2