Medicine Flashcards
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Night/morning headaches +morning vomiting + fever
Brain abscess
-do head CT
Follicular Thyroid cancer Dx
- FNA will show follicular cells
- you need to show invasion through capsule to differentiate btwn carcinoma and a follicular adenoma
- mets hematogenously
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
- COMMONEST thyroid cancer
- look for Psammoma bodies,
- FNA shows large cells with ground glass cytoplasm, inclusion bodies in pale nuclei and central grooving. Encapsulated
- Prognosis is really good even if there are mets
ITP Immune Thrombocytopenia
Presentation: previous viral infection (URI), petechia and bruises, bleeding (epistaxis, GI bleeds, hematuria)
-Labs: isolated thrombocytopenia and big platelets w/ nothing else
-Kids tx: just skin findings? then observe
-Bleeding? give IVIG or glucocorticoids
-Adults: Platelets >30k? observe
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Pt had a heart attack and passed out. Why?
-b/c of some sort of ventricular arrhythmia. Probably V fib
Nonallergic vs allergic rhinitis
Nonallergic: stuffiness, congestion, postnasal drip w/ dry cough, NO identifiable triggers, perennial sx that worsen w/ season change
-tx: intranasal antihistamine or glucocorticoid
Allergic Rhinitis: pts have mainly eye sx (itching), sneezing, pale blueish nasal mucosa,
-Tx: same
Meds a PT should be on if they had an MI, have unstable angina or got PCI
- B-Blocker
- Aspirin
- ACEI
- Lisinopril
- Clopidogrel
- the first 4 should be used in pts to prevent an MI
Uric Acid stone tx
Potassium citrate to alkalinize the urine
-radiolucent
Lumbar spinal stenosis
- Presents as lower back pain and pain in legs/difficulty walking.
- Results from anything that narrows the spinal canal and compresses that nerve roots.
- Most commonly from degenerative joint disease where disc herniation and osteophytes hurt the roots
- Worse=standing and downhill walking (flexion (leaning back))
- Better=uphill walking and leaning forward (less pressure on roots)
- DX=MRI!!!! Really small spaces so yea MRI
Avoid sun exposure w/ this antibiotic
Tetracycline
Kidney stone dx
Ultrasound or NONCONTRAST CT
Massive pulmonary embolus sx
-you can see syncope and signs of right heart strain (right bundle branch block, nonspecific ST-T wave changes, hypotension, JVD), cariogenic shock causing CNS manifestations like blown pupils
Myasthenia Gravis tx
-Step 1?
2?
Crisis?
1) Pyridostigmine for all
2) if sx continue then add glucocorticoids, azathioprine, mycophenolate mofetil, and cyclosporine
Crisis: do Glucocorticoids AND IVIG or Plasmapharesis
-Infection is usually the cause of the crisis
CMV retinitis
- does NOT hurt
- commonest ophtho complication in HIV
HSV retinitis
hurts!! Also has initial sx of keratitis and conjunctivitis
Tx of COPD
- O2 (target is88-92%)
- Inhaled bronchodilators (albuterol, ipratropium)
- SYSTEMIC GLUCOCORTICOIDS
- Antibiotics if more than one of the following: cough, increase in sputum production/weird color, or dyspnea
- PEEP if not too bad, intubate if really bad
Diastolic Heart Failure
- Normal ejection fraction
- Due to decreased ability of LV to fill. Usually from chronic HTN leading to a thick LV.
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Guillain-Barre
High CSF protein w/ normal cell count
When to use whole blood transfusion?
-Only when the pt is in major trauma and needs a MASSIVE transfusion. The vast majority of the time you need to choose PRBCs
HIV pt w/ unilateral hearing loss?
-Likely it’s noninfectious serous OM. Happens in HIV pts p/c of lymphadenopathy. Exam shows dull and hypomobile TM
Chalazion
- nodular rubbery lesion that causes PAINFUL swelling.
- If they are recurrent or persistent then they might be due to sebaceous carcinoma or basal cell so do histopathological examination.
Lifestyle modification for HTN tx efficacy (1 to 5)
1) Weight loss (10kg)
2) Dash Diet
3) Exercise
4) low sodium diet
5) DRINK 2/day for men and 1/day in women
- Notice how SMOKING has NOTHING to do with any of this crap!! It does not raise blood pressure in the long term
Enthesitis
- pain where tendons insert into bone
- Usually associated with HLA-B27 and most commonly ankylosing spondylitis.
- Heel, tibial tuberosities and iliac crest pain is most common.
CAP
- 3 commonest causes
- healthy pt tx?
- really sick old person tx?
Strep pneumo, H flu and Mycoplasma
Healthy: tx outpatient w/ Doxyclycline or a Macrolide
Super sick: hospitalize and tx w/ extended-spectrum fluoroquinolones (Levofloxacin or Moxifloxacin), or you could give a B-lactam w/ a Macrolide.