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This lung condition involves irreversible enlargement of airspaces and destruction of alveolar walls.
What is emphysema?
This condition often presents with burning urination, frequent urge to urinate, and cloudy urine.
What is a urinary tract infection (UTI)?
This bacterium is the most common cause of infections that present with urinary urgency, dysuria, and suprapubic pain.
What is Escherichia coli (E. coli)?
This diagnostic test confirms cystic fibrosis by detecting elevated salt levels in sweat, a result of defective chloride ion transport.
What is sweat chloride test?
This medication should be avoided in children with viral infections like influenza to prevent the development of Reye syndrome.
What is aspirin?
This renal disorder involves defective salt reabsorption in the loop of Henle due to genetic mutations.
What is Bartter syndrome?
This condition can cause fever, neck stiffness, headache, and photophobia.
What is meningitis?
This acid-fast bacillus is responsible for a chronic pulmonary infection marked by weight loss, night sweats, and hemoptysis.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
This imaging finding is characteristic of this chronic lung condition involving alveolar wall destruction and air trapping.
What is chest radiograph showing hyperinflated lungs?
This dietary modification is recommended to reduce workload in patients with liver inflammation.
This genetic disease causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This disease causes persistent cough with sputum for at least 3 months a year, 2 years in a row.
What is chronic bronchitis?
A defect in this protein leads to abnormally thick secretions affecting the lungs and digestive tract.
What is the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) protein?
These physical exam findings suggest meningeal irritation in a patient suspected of having meningitis.
What are positive Kernig and Brudzinski signs?
These two electrolytes are commonly added in parenteral nutrition to correct renal salt and fluid losses.
What are sodium and potassium?
This condition involves increased capillary permeability in the lungs, leading to fluid-filled alveoli and hypoxemia.
What is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)?
Symptoms of hepatitis may include jaundice, dark urine, and pain in this abdominal quadrant
What is right upper quadrant?
This virus mutates frequently and is spread via respiratory droplets, leading to seasonal outbreaks of fever, body aches, and cough.
What is the influenza virus?
This radiographic finding is commonly seen in primary tuberculosis due to the higher oxygen tension in this part of the lung.
What is chest X-ray showing infiltrates in the upper lobes?
This type of medication provides quick relief of bronchoconstriction and can prevent exercise-induced asthma?
Metabolic acidosis in this type of nutrition occurs due to hydrochloric acid infusion and impaired buffering.
What is parenteral nutrition (especially TPN)?
Clinical manifestations of pneumonia may include pleuritic chest pain, cough, fever, and this type of adventitious lung sound.
These pathogens are most commonly implicated in a serious lung infection that develops 48 hours or more after hospital admission, particularly in patients on mechanical ventilation.
What are Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus?
This lab finding is commonly seen in chronic bronchitis as the body attempts to compensate for long-term low oxygen levels.
What is polycythemia?
This strategy involves a healthcare provider observing a patient take their medication to improve adherence and reduce the risk of drug resistance in long-term infectious disease treatment.
What is Directly Observed Therapy?