Nephrology
Eponymous term for IgA nephropathy
Berger disease
Term for intermittent and irregular jugular venous pulsations of greater amplitude than normal reflecting simultaneous atrial and ventricular contraction
Cannon a waves
Subcutaneous opioid antagonist approved for opioid-induced constipation
Methylnaltrexone (accept Relistor)
Term for type of immunity dependent on the entry of a foreign agent or antigen to stimulate immune mechanism formation
Adaptive
Agent responsible for oral hairy leukoplakia
Ebstein-Barr virus infection
Vitamin ingestion that may cause false negative urine dipstick for blood
Vitamin C (accept ascorbic acid)
Heart failure therapy involving biventricular pacing to improve cardiac output
Cardiac resynchronization
Vesicular rash in celiac disease caused by granular deposition of IgA
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Most common autoimmune disorder associated with inherited complement deficiency
Systemic lupus erythematosus (accept SLE)
Condition characterized by fever, hypotension, diffuse erythroderma, and multiple organ involvement
Toxic shock syndrome
Reabsorption of these two minerals in the thick ascending limb is indirectly inhibited by blockade of the NKCC channel by loop diuretics
Magnesium and calcium
Pacing mode most commonly associated with pacemaker syndrome
Single-chamber VVI pacing (accept VVI pacing)
Liver condition most commonly associated with anti-smooth muscle antibody
Type 1 autoimmune hepatitis (accept autoimmune hepatitis)
Systemic infection associated with markedly increased risk for sulfonamide drug reactions
Human immunodeficiency virus infection (accept HIV infection)
Acute, self-limited, febrile illness occurring in the first 24 hours of treatment of spirochetal infections
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction (accept Herxheimer)
Acid-base disorder associated with high dose propofol infusion
Anion-gap metabolic acidosis (accept lactic acidosis; do not accept metabolic acidosis alone)
Restrictive cardiomyopathy that has a 'speckled pattern' in echocardiogram
Cardiac amyloidosis (accept amyloidosis)
Syndrome characterized by common hepatic duct obstruction caused by an extrinsic compression from an impacted stone in the cystic duct
Mirizzi syndrome
Term for a chronic, bilateral form of allergic inflammation of the ocular surface with severe symptoms typically occurring in the Spring
Vernal keratoconjunctivitis
Vaginal pH above which meets one of the Amsel criteria for bacterial vaginosis
4.5
Gene associated with nondiabetic kidney disease and HIV-associated nephropathy in patients of African descent
Apolipoprotein L1 (APOL1)
Eponymous name for method of determining cardiac output using the arteriovenous oxygen concentration difference
Fick method (accept Fick principle)
Syndrome of gastrointestinal bleeding from angiodysplasia in the presence of aortic stenosis
Heyde syndrome
Mutation of which gene is characteristic of X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Bruton tyrosine kinase signal transduction gene (accept BTK gene)
Antibiotic class of choice for treatment of uncomplicated, fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infection
Macrolides