Pharmacology
The fluoroquinolone that does not cover pseudomonas
What is Moxifloxacin?
Name for the combination of bradycardia, bradypnea and elevated blood pressure
What is Cushings triad? (clinical sign of elevated intracranial pressure)
Syndrome characterized by hyponatremia, high urine osmolality, and high urine sodium?
What is SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone)?
This opportunistic infection is often seen in PLWH and is characterized by scrapable white plaques on the tongue.
Oral thrush (oral candidiasis)
Number of neutrophils to diagnose SBP.
What is 250 ?
Name at least two first-line medications for a gout attack.
What are colchicine, NSAIDs, and glucocorticoids (intra-articular or systemic)?
Condition caused by B12 deficiency and results damage to the posterior spinal columns, causing lower extremity weakness and numbness.
What is subacute combined degeneration?
Syndrome named after the combination of central obesity, hypertension, insulin resistance, and dyslipidemia.
What is metabolic syndrome?
Headache, hypotension, vasodilation, and skin rash following antibiotic treatment for Syphilis
What is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction?
Test that can be used to distinguish if elevated alkaline phosphatase is from a biliary or other source?
What is GGT? Would also accepted fractionated alk phos.
Name at least 3 antibiotics that cover MRSA
What are vancomycin, daptomycin, linezolid, doxycycline (SSTI), tigecycline, TMP-SMX (SSTI), clindamycin (SSTI), ceftaroline, dalbavancin, rifampin? (and there are others!)
Autoimmune neurologic complication frequently seen after infections such as campylobacter jejuni.
What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?
Syndrome characterized by high risk of colorectal, endometrial, and ovarian cancer caused by mutation in DNA mismatch repair genes.
What is Lynch Syndrome?
This fungal infection is endemic to the southwestern United Status and causes pulmonary disease. It is classically known as "valley fever."
What is Coccidioides immitis?
Condition characterized by abdominal bloating (often better after BMs) and irregular bowel habits, usually diagnosed by exclusion
What is irritable bowel syndrome?
This medication can be added to LABA-LAMA-ICS (triply therapy) for patients with severe COPD (usually with bronchitis) who continue to have frequent exacerbations
What is roflumilast? (would also accept azithromycin)
Disease classically seen in young to middle-age women characterized by headache, blurry vision, and elevated opening pressure on lumbar puncture, but no acute findings on CT head.
What is idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Syndrome characterized by gastrointestinal tumor, flushing, diarrhea, and heart valve abnormalities.
What is carcinoid syndrome?
(Secrete serotonin and other vasoactive substances)
The immune status to hepatitis B for someone who is surface antibody positive, core antibody positive, and surface antigen negative
What is immune due to previous infection?
Name at least two classes of medications used to treat GERD.
What are proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), H2 blockers, antacids (eg. calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide), sucralfate?
Name at least one cephalosporine from each generation.
1st: cefazolin, cephalexin, cefadroxil
2nd: cefuroxime, cefoxitin
3rd: ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefixime
4th: Cefepime
5th: Ceftaroline
bonus: novel cephalosporins - cefiderocol, ceftolazone
Medication proven to prolong survival in ALS patients
What is Riluzole?
Genetic disorder characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, ocular abnormalities, and hematuria (mutation in type IV collagen).
What is Alport syndrome?
This parasitic infection is contracted through undercooked pork and causes fever, myalgias, and periorbital edema.
What is trichinosis? (caused by trichinella spiralis)
This medication is commonly used to treat primary biliary cholangitis by improving bile flow and protecting hepatocytes from cellular damage.
What is ursodeoxycholic acid?