Pulm&Critical Care
Lipid abnormality associated with 'pseudo-metabolic acidosis'
Hypertriglyceridemia
Eponymous term for IgA nephropathy
Berger disease
Antibiotic/Drug used as an in-vitro assay for von Willebrand factor binding to platelet receptor glycoprotein Ib
Ristocetin
Eponym for brief paralysis following a seizure
Todd paralysis (accept Todds)
Effect of early intra-pulmonary hemorrhage on diffusing capacity measurement
Increased diffusing capacity (DLCO)
Most serious extra-renal complication of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Central nervous system bleeding (accept ruptured cerebral aneurysm; subarachnoid hemorrhage; intracerebral hemorrhage)
Term for the time from when a cancer treatment is started until that treatment is no longer controlling the tumor
Progression-free interval (accept progression-free survival)
First human organ to be successfully transplanted between identical twins
Kidney
Most common noninfectious cause of chylothorax
Trauma/ Surgery
Complement component severely reduced in acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
C3
Historic term for neutropenic enterocolitis affecting the cecum
Typhlitis (accept Typhlenteritis)
Viral pathogen commonly associated with outbreaks of diarrhea on cruise ships
Norovirus
Substance implicated in vaping-related lung injury
Vitamin E acetate (accept vitamin E)
Vitamin ingestion that may cause false negative urine dipstick for blood
Vitamin C (accept ascorbic acid)
MDS associated mutation that can be treated with Lenalidomide
5q deletion
del(5q)
Systemic reaction to endotoxin-like products released by the death of harmful microorganisms following initiation of antibiotic treatment
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Name of fluoroscopic maneuver to confirm unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis
Sniff test (accept sniff test maneuver)
Toxic product of methanol ingestion resulting from sequential metabolism by alcohol and aldehyde dehydrogenase
Formic acid (accept formate)
Inhibitor therapy specifically found to be inactive in patients with colon cancer and RAS and BRAF mutations
Hint: right sided Colon Ca
Epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (accept EGFR inhibitors)
Chemical warfare agent that led to the use of alkylating agents for treatment of leukemia
Mustard gas (accept nitrogen mustard)