Infectious Disease
Patient diagnosed with babesiosis, what do you expect to find on the peripheral blood smear?
Treatment for aortic dissection type A.
1. Type A: surgery
Bonus (Type B: medical management with B-blocker)
Most specific antibody for primary biliary cholangitis?
Antimitochondrial Antibody
Most common functioning pituitary adenoma?
Prolactinoma
Medication for reversal of heparin?
Protamine sulfate
Name treatment for lyme disease:
1. Treatement uncomplicated lyme disease
2. Treatment for severe disease, CNS signs, or heart block
1. doxycycline, amoxicillin
2. ceftriaxone
Syndrome assosicated with arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, aortic root dilation, hyperflexible joints?
Marfan Syndrome
Eye finding associated with Wilson disease?
Kayser-Fleischer rings
Drug used for hyperthyroidism associated with hepatotoxicity?
Propothiouracil
Preferred antiepileptics for child bearing aged women?
lamorigine or levetiracetam (Keppra)
Prophylaxis for close contacts meningococcal meningitis, name at least 2/3.
1. Rifampin
2. Ciprofloxacin
3. Ceftriaxone
EKG findings associated with acute pericarditis?
Medication for refractory opioid induced constipation?
Methylnatrexone
Acromegaly is diagnosed with elevation in which lab?
Elevated IGF-1 (insulin like growth factor 1)
First line treatment for idiopathic intracranial hypertnesion (2 parts).
1. Weight loss
2. Acetazolamide
Most common viral infection after transplant?
CMV
What is the "Beck Triad" for findings in cardiac tamponade?
1. Distant heart sounds
2. Hypotension
3. Distended neck veins (JVD)
What are the components of H Pylori quadruple therapy?
1. Bismuth subsalicylate
2. Tetracycline
3. Metronidazole
4. PPI
Calcitonin
Medication for dermatitis herpatiformis?
Dapsone
Treatment for cryptococcal meningitis?
liposomal amphotericin B + flucytosine
Three most common causes of restrictive cardiomyopathy?
1. Amyloidosis
2. Sarcoidosis
3. Hemochromatosis
Lynch syndrome is caused by autosomal dominant mutation of which gene?
Mismatch repair gene (MSH2, MLH1)
Components of MEN2A
1. Medullary Thyroid Cancer
2. Pheochromocytoma
3. Primary Hyperparathyroidism
Medication for treatment of malignant hyperthermia?