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This is a test you can keep up your sleeve to help you diagnose sarcoidosis
What is an ACE level?
True or false--clinical cases of Candida auris have been identified in all 50 US states.
False--there are 15 states with no reported cases.
What is Addison's disease (primary adrenal insufficiency)?
Typically found in the pancreas, this type of tumor causes watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and hypochlorhydria.
What is a VIPoma?
This is the minimum duration of time you need to discontinue an ACE inhibitor before initiating a patient on sacubitril/valsartan.
What is 36 hours?
This test was recommended the 2020 updates to asthma management guidelines by the NAEPPCC, when a diagnosis of asthma is unclear after a traditional workup including spirometry and bronchodilator responsiveness.
What is fractional exhaled nitric oxide?
2021 CDC STI guidelines recommend this treatment course of uncomplicated genital gonococcal infection (with unknown chlamydia status)--include drug(s), dose, duration.
Ceftriaxone 500 mg IM once, and doxycycline 100 mg BID x 7 days
What is MEN-2?
This surgical intervention was found to reduce the 10-year incidence of cancer from 4.9% to 2.9% in a population of ~30,000 patients meeting standard criteria for the intervention.
What is bariatric surgery?
Here's an ECG--what's your diagnosis?
Third degree heart block
This antibacterial drug, typically taken twice a day, is a causative agent for drug-induced interstitial lung disease.
What is nitrofurantoin?
This so-called 5th generation cephalosporin has activity against MRSA but not Pseudomonas
What is ceftaroline?
What is diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA)?
This drug made waves in 2022 for inducing remission in 14 out of 14 patients with rectal cancer containing a mismatch repair deficiency.
What is dostarlimab (Jemperli)?
Here's another ECG, in a patient with chest pain--what's your diagnosis?
Pericarditis
Pleural effusions can be misclassified as exudative when using Light's criteria in patients with CHF or cirrhosis taking this type of medication.
What are diuretics?
The best antibiotic treatment choice for managing uncomplicated left-sided diverticulitis, according to ACP.
What is no antibiotic treatment?
There are 4 agents that can block conversion of T4 to T3 when treating thyroid storm--name 3 of them.
Propranolol, glucocorticoids, propylthiouracil (PTU), and iodine? (Amiodarone is also acceptable)
Perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasms (PEComas) can be found as part of this genetic syndrome.
What is tuberous sclerosis complex?
Here's an echocardiogram--what's your diagnosis?
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Patients presenting to the hospital with Goodpasture syndrome (anti-GBM disease) typically require these two drugs in addition to daily plasmapheresis.
What are cyclophosphamide and a corticosteroid?
IDSA recommends that this drug be used for treating an initial C diff infection.
What is fidaxomycin?
When drawing a blood sample for a plasma free metanephrines test, the patient is required to do this.
What is, remain recumbent for 20 minutes prior to the blood draw?
Vaginal estrogen use demonstrated a higher recurrence rate among postmenopausal patients with ER-positive breast cancer, unless they had been treated with this.
What is tamoxifen?
Here's an ECG from a patient whose father died suddenly at age 41--what's your diagnosis?
Brugada syndrome