Cardio/pulm
This drug, used for everything, including stroke and MI prevention, should not be given to children due to a feared complication of Reye syndrome.
What is aspirin?
This acronym, used to describe all the causes of metabolic acidosis, is another way to say that someone is "hangry".
What is MAD HUNGER?
Also called Lou Gehrig's disease, this three-letter acronym had a viral challenge to raise awareness for the disease.
What is ALS?
The three segments of the small intestine are the duodenum, jejunum, and this.
What is the ileum?
These cells, which name also describes the "fourth state of matter", produce antibodies.
What are plasma cells?
Noncaseating granulomas, bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, and increased ACE are characteristic of this disease
What is sarcoidosis?
Vomiting typically produces this acid-base disorder.
What is metabolic alkalosis?
"Cocaine crawlies" are another name of what type of hallucinations often found in stimulant use or alcohol withdrawal?
What are tactile hallucinations?
Chagas disease can destroy the myenteric plexus and mimic this primary esophageal disorder.
What is achalasia?
HIV strains that use the CCR5 co-receptor primarily infect these immune cells early in infection.
What are macrophages?
A mid-systolic "click" is characteristic of this valvular pathology.
What is mitral stenosis?
This formula, sharing the name with a cold season, is used to tell if someone has a respiratory acidosis or alkalosis alongside their metabolic acidosis.
What is Winters formula?
A sequela of hypertension, bradycardia, and irregular respirations is known as this triad.
What is Cushing's triad?
Don't ask Phil! This condition, characterized by neonatal jaundice and associated with Crigler-Najjar type 1, is a cause of death in infants.
Don't worry, it gets better! This cause of muscle weakness is improved by repeated stimulation.
What is Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndome?
Cystic fibrosis most commonly occurs due to an in-frame deletion of this gene.
What is Phe508?
This condition presents with episodic hypertension, headaches, sweating, and tachycardia.
What is pheochromocytoma?
Dantrolene and dopaminergics are the curative agents for this feared pharmacological side effect.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
This hormone, also used to describe an important person, increases intestinal water and electrolyte secretion.
What is VIP?
A defect in nucleotide excision repair causes this UV-sensitivity disorder.
What is xeroderma pigmentosum?
Deposition of misfolded proteins in the myocardium producing thickened walls, restrictive filling, and diastolic dysfunction underlies this disease, which classically presents with nephrotic syndrome or neuropathy depending on subtype.
What is cardiac amyloidosis?
This rare condition presents with the physical features of Albright hereditary osteodystrophy, but without end-organ PTH resistance.
This pathology, associated with long-standing hypertension, can cause intraparenchymal strokes.
What are Charcot-Bouchard microaneurysms?
This rare subtype of gastric cancer found in otherwise healthy people with no risk factors will have these characteristic cells on light microscopy.
What are signet ring cells?
A child with eczema, recurrent infections, and thrombocytopenia with elevated IgA and IgE but low IgM has this condition.
What is Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome?