Endocrinology and Metabolism
Enzyme deficiency characterized by virilization, hypotension, hyperkalemia, and cortisol deficiency
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Disease caused by beta-globin mutation leading to vaso-occlusion
Sickle cell disease
Cardiac syndrome with short PR interval, delta wave, and widened QRS complex
Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome
Non-contraceptive treatment for PMS and premenstrual dysphoria
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Chronic lung disease of the major airways associated with cystic fibrosis
Bronchiectasis
Autoimmune skin condition associated with autoimmune adrenalitis
Vitiligo
Segment of a chromosome that shortens with aging
Telomere
FDA-approved antidote for oral factor Xa inhibitors
Andexanet alfa
Breast mass imaging modality for women younger than 30 years of age or who are pregnant
Ultrasonography
FEV1 value that defines GOLD 4 or very severe COPD
<30% of predicted (accept <30%)
Imaging study to detect extent and location of Paget disease of bone
Bone scintigraphy (accept radionuclide bone scan)
Hematologic malignancy associated with translocation of chromosomes 15 and 17
Acute promyelocytic leukemia
Imaging study with the highest negative predictive value for suspected cardiac sarcoidosis
Cardiac MRI (accept MRI)
Activity associated with decreased risk of breast, ovarian, and endometrial cancer
Breastfeeding
The two variables used to calculate the rapid shallow breathing index to assess readiness for weaning from mechanical ventilation
Respiratory frequency and tidal volume (accept respiratory rate)
Drug class used to treat amiodarone-induced thyroiditis type ll, or destructive thyroiditis
Glucocorticoids (accept steroids)
Ability of a mutation in a single gene to produce more than 1 phenotypic effect
Pleiotropy
Pathognomic finding of concentric ventricular wall thickness with low QRS voltage
Amyloidosis
Human papilloma virus type most highly associated with invasive cervical cancer
16
Pulmonary cause for cryptogenic stroke
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (accept PAVM, pulmonary shunt, or pulmonary arteriovenous fistula)
Rare complication of antithyroid drugs that presents as fever in 92% of cases
Agranulocytosis
Phenomenon in which successive generations display earlier or more severe manifestations of a genetic condition
Anticipation
Name for condition with low transvalvular pressures in patients with severe aortic stenosis but preserved left ventricular function
Paradoxical low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis
T-cell lymphoma associated with textured breast implants
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (accept ALCL; ask for more specific detail if answer given is T-cell lymphoma)
Duration of treatment for cryptogenic organizing pneumonia
6 to 12 months (accept any time within this range)