What is hypercoagulability, hemodynamic changes, endothelial injury?
100
One of the only known benefits of smoking is with this GI illness.
What is ulcerative colitis?
100
Acute severe chest pain with radiating interscapular pain
What is aortic dissection?
100
Two characteristics of the synovial fluid analysis result of a classic patient with pseudogout.
What is basophilic crystals with rhomboid shape and weak positive birefringence on polarized light microscopy?
200
The study best used to determine the most common cause of vitamin B12 deficiency secondary to pernicious anemia is this.
What is gastroscopy with biopsy? (autoimmune atrophic gastritis, anti-parietal cells)
200
Triad in cardiac tamponade. Get the crash cart!
What is muffled heart sounds, hypotension, distended neck veins (Beck's triad)?
200
Heavy smokers who develop claudication of the distal extremities as well as numbness and tingling as a result of this disease can often help treat themselves with smoking cessation.
What is Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)?
200
Air-fluid levels on an abdominal x-ray
What is bowel obstruction?
200
Most common cause for septic arthritis in an HIV-infected IV-drug user
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
300
Patients on chronic TPN may develop microcytic anemia and poor wound healing as a result of a deficiency in this mineral. Although, patients with Kayser-Fleischer rings would want share some of their own supply to them.
What is copper?
300
Two of the five entities of Reynold's pentad are fever and abdominal pain. These are the other three.
What is jaundice, shock, CNS depression?
300
This common malignancy as a result of smoking often presents with a myasthenia gravis-like clinical presentation.
What is small cell lung cancer? (Lambert-Eaton syndrome)
300
You stabilize your type I diabetes patient with an insulin drip after he fell severely hypotensive. Now you want to see if you can transition him off of the drip and back to his normal insulin regimen by looking at this particular lab value.
What is anion gap?
300
Arthralgias and myalgias in the setting of livedo reticularis and seropositivity to hepatitis C.
What is polyarteritis nodosa?
400
This mechanism of action is responsible for hypercalcemia in sarcoidosis.
What is conversion of vitamin D to its active form by macrophages?
400
Two of the five entities of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura are fever and thrombocytopenia. These are the other three.
What is renal failure, disturbed neurological function, microangiopathic hemolytic anemia?
400
Long-time smokers can get hemoptysis as a result of an underlying lung malignancy, however, this is the most common overall cause of hemoptysis
What is bronchitis?
400
The heart rhythm that should be producing a pulse but is not.
What is pulseless electrical activity?
400
Migratory inflammation of large joints in the setting of a new murmur and rapid movements without purpose of the face and arms
What is rheumatic fever? (Sydenham's chorea)
500
All of the clotting factors that require Vitamin K for their synthesis
What is II, VII, IX, X, protein C and S?
500
Triad of Fanconi syndrome
What is aminoaciduria, phosphaturia, proteinuria?
500
You asked your young patient several times if he is a smoker and he continually denies it and frankly, is getting annoyed at you. However, you cannot figure out why he has shortness of breath and a hyperresonant chest until you think of this diagnosis.
What is alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency?
500
Spasms of the whole body that leads to legs and head being bent back and body bowed backwards
What is meningitis (opisthotonus)?
500
Muscle cramps and joint pain in the setting of abnormal menstrual cycles, weight gain, constipation, dry skin, and water retention.