Week 3 Buzzwords Flashcards
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DVT:
Can propagate and manifest as a pulmonary embolism
DVT First line imaging:
Duplex Doppler ultrasound
Great Saphenous vein:
not a deep vein but clot within 1.5 cm of junction gets DVT treatment
Whole Body Low Dose CT:
Good for monitoring Multiple Myeloma treatment response
Extraosseous Myeloma:
most commonly seen in lymph nodes
Diagnostic for Multiple Myeloma:
> 5mm lytic lesion, axial skeleton most common (ie. vertebrae)
Osteonecrosis:
sickle cell anemia associated disease
Asplenia, gallstones, CNS infarcts:
Sickle Cell radiologic manifestations
Best diagnostic imaging for lymphoma:
CT is workhorse
Pathologic node for lymphoma:
> 1 cm on short axis
4 T’s of Anterior Mediastinal Mass Differential:
Teratoma, thymoma, thyroid, “Terrible” lymphoma
Dengue Fever:
flavivirus, 4 serotypes, aedes mosquito, no person/person transmission, “bone break fever”, secondary infection due to different serotype
42% Mosquitos Prefer Bone Flavor
Arenaviruses:
“sandy” or “string of beads” appearance under EM, rodent host, fever / headache / fatigue / hemorrhagic fever, South America / West Africa
Lassa Fever virus:
arenavirus, alpha-dystroglycan, rat, west africa
Filovirus:
Ebola and Marburg - can be transmitted through sexual contact
Ebola:
Zaire strain is most deadly
Bunyaviridae:
zoonotic, phlebovirus is Rift Valley Fever while Nairovirus is Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic Fever
Colorado Tick Fever:
coltivirus, reoviridae family with double layered capsid, elevation >4,000 ft, dermacentor andersoni, prolonged viremia
Colts rear double when Anderson takes them past 4k ft for too long.
Malaria:
Plasmodium falciparum, ovale, malariae, knowlesi, female anopheles mosquitoes
Fever Types Malaria:
P. Falciparum - malignant tertian, p. Vivax - benign tertian (liver stage), P. Ovale - benign tertian (liver stage), P. malariae - quartan, P. knowlesi - quotidian (every day)
Malaria Stages:
sporozoite injected into blood, merozoite is multiplication in liver and invade RBC, form ring and become schizont, burst and release new merozoites, cycle continues causing fever, some merozoites develop into gametocytes which are taken up when mosquito bites again
Babesia:
intracellular sporozoan with ixodes tick, maltese cross (tetrads), severe in immunocompromised
Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi:
sheathed microfilariae, filarial worms, mosquito, endosymbionts, nocturnal circulation
SF MEN
Loa loa:
calabar Swellings, worms migrate under Eye, Eosinophilia, move during Day, Sheathed
SEE SD