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pulmonary embolism in a 34-year-old woman who also has livedo reticularis and a prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time =
Antiphospholipid syndome
widespread skin eruption 2 weeks after having had a sore throat.
5-mm diameter, scaly, erythematous papules over her trunk and limbs
guttate psoriasis
broad spectrum Abx therapy now diarrhoea
CT - thickened sigmoid colon
pseudomembranous colitis ie C diff
When is someone immunocompromised with if taking prednisolone?
prednisolone 40 mg (or more) for longer than 7 days,
prednisolone 20 mg (or more) for longer than 14 days
End-stage renal disease and this in fingers?
secondary hyperparathyroidism
4-year history of acute intermittent pain and swelling of the knees one at a time. Normal serum urate during attack.
Obese, hepatomegaly. Swollen metacarpophalangeal joints on right hand. Urinalysis showed glucose 3+. BM 14
haemochromatosis
As systemic disease, asymetrical arthiritis
Pancreatitis due to ++ hypertriglycerides prevention?
Fibrates Eg ciprofibrate
43-year-old woman was investigated for increasing abdominal girth, nausea and alteration of bowel habit.
pseudomyxoma peritonei
not a HCC as tumour from outside liver
leg weakness and tenderness, which was worse on exercise.
Raised MCV
Raised CK
anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies positive
anti-gastric parietal cell antibodies positive
dX?
Hypothyroidism - mild rise in CK in 90%
[wouldn’t see this in pernicious anaemia]
When a pacemaker for pauses
> 3s in someone awake
<3s if definite symptoms associated
when can you classify AF as paroxysmal
> 30 seconds
Immunocompromised with CAP - CXR patchy shaddowing right base rx?
Oral amox and clary
pain and swelling of his left knee 4 weeks after a holiday in Spain. 38.1°C
CRP 210
Reactive
[Reactive Run - rash on soles]
keratoderma blennorrhagica
Gonococcal
-Migratatory and tendosynovitis - no rash palm soles
baseline spirometry:
FEV1 90% predicted
FVC 91% predicted
20 minutes after exercise:
FEV1 63% predicted
FVC 84% predicted
exercise-induced asthma
4-cm thyroid swelling
Previous adrenalectomy for a benign pheochromocytoma
What is the thyroid swelling?
MEN2
Calcitonin producing medullary Thyroid Ca
hypokalaemic, hypochloraemic metabolic alkalosis with hypertension
Raised renin
Fibromuscular dysplasia of the renal artery leads to renal artery stenosis
Conns = low renin
right-sided shoulder weakness when his R scapula “stuck out” painlessly during weightlifting.
Previous injury
Cousin has a muscular dystrophy
Isolated right serratus anterior muscle weakness.
Brachial neuritis
Muscular dystrophies are symmetrical
Radiculopathy wouldn’t do just specific serratus anterior
50-year-old woman has evidence of purpura and peripheral sensorimotor neuropathy.
Positive anti-MPO antibodies
microscopic polyangiitis
Not GPA - neither the purpura nor the neuropathy is suggestive of granulomatous involvement
Which sleep disorder has risk of Parkinson’s disease
Rapid eye movement-sleep behaviour disorder
29F 12-hour history of severe throbbing headache and right-sided weakness.
COCP and extacy use.
LP - mild raised pressure
cerebral venous thrombosis
Hypertension Rx options in preg
Labetalol, methyldopa and nifedipine
10 year history - right conductive deafness, a right palatal palsy, dysphonia, a non-explosive (bovine) cough and wasting of the right side of her tongue
glomus jugulare tumour
[Insidious over years with lower MN signs]
Sinus rhythm with normal PR and QT intervals.
Partial right bundle branch block pattern
STE, leading to T-wave inversion in leads V1 and V2.
26 breathlessness associated with chest discomfort.
Asthma
negative QRST complexes in lead I and aVL that look like inversions of the normal morphology
QRS complex in aVR is isoelectric (usually it is clearly negative).