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100
Identify the disorder seen in the following picture:
What is chilblains (pernio)? Slide 2
100
Name the maneuver(s) used to test for anterior cruciate ligament tear.
What is the Lachman Test or anterior drawer sign? Slide 7
100
A gardner presents with arthritis and multiple warm, red nodules. Name the organism that most likely caused her symptoms.
What is sporotrichosis? Slide 12
100
Name the toxic metabolite of cyclophophamide that is associated with bladder toxicity.
What is acrolein?
100
EMG typically reveals this triad of changes in patients with polymyositis.
What are 1) increased insertional activity, fibrillations and sharp positive waves, 2) spontaneous, bizarre, high frequency discharges, and 3) polyphasic motor unit potentials of low amplitude and short duration.
200
Name the cell seen in the following photograph:
What is an LE cell? Slide 3
200
Name the maneuver(s) used to test for shoulder impingement syndrome.
What are the Neer/Hawkins Kennedy tests? Slide 8
200
Risk factors for the disseminated form of this infection include SLE, recent menstruation, congenital or acquired immunodeficiencies, pregnancy or recent delivery.
What is Neisseria gonorrhea? Slide 13
200
Name the antirheumatic and antiacne medication that is associated with drug-induced lupus.
What is minocycline?
200
Identify the difference between the lupus disease measures the SLICC and SLEDAI.
What are disease damage and disease activity.
300
Name the condition demonstrated in the following radiograph:
What is the Milwaukee Shoulder? Slide 4
300
Name the maneuver(s) used to test for a meniscal tear.
What is the McMurray Test? Slide 9
300
Arthritis caused by this organism characteristically preserves the joint space in early disease.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis? Slide 14
300
Name the class of antibiotics that is associated with tendinitis.
What are the fluoroquinolones?
300
Contact for patients who would like to participate in ongoing studies.
Who is Dr. K?
400
Identify the process and causative agent in the following photo:
What is levamisole-associated vasculopathy? Slide 5
400
Name the maneuver(s) used to test for bicipital tendinitis.
What are the Yergason/Speed tests? Slide 10
400
A 26 yo sheep farmer presents with unilateral sacroiliitis. Name the organism most likely for his symptoms.
What is Brucella abortus? Slide 15
400
Name two medications that result in significant drug-drug interactions (DDIs) with colchicine.
What are cyclosporine, ketoconazole, ritonavir, clarithromycin, verapamil ER (extended release), and diltiazem ER?
400
Name the antibody which can help distinguish cocaine-related vasculopathy from autoimmune vasculitis.
What is Anti Human Neutrophil Elastase?
500
A patient presented with acute onset of severe right thigh pain and the following MRI changes. Identify the most likely cause of his pain.
What is diabetic muscle infarct? Slide 6
500
Name the maneuver(s) used to test for sacroiliac joint pathology.
What is the FABER test? Slide 11
500
This organism can cause arthritis, arthralgias and myalgias, and it has been proposed as a precipitating agent of rheumatoid arthritis.
What is Mycoplasma pneumoniae?
500
Name the antirejection therapy that has been associated with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome.
What are the calcineurin inhibitors?
500
Name the lupine author who wrote: "Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots."
Who is Flannery O'Connor?