Usmle step 1 stuvia Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly, (also high D dimer, CHF without JVD) - ANSWERBudd-Chiari syndrome Achilles tendon xanthoma - ANSWERFamilial hypercholesterolemia Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC - ANSWERWaterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia) Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints - ANSWERMarfan's (fibrillin defect) Athlete with polycythemia - ANSWERErythropoietin injection Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss - ANSWE...

Klüver Bucy syndrome -ANSWER Hyperorality, hypersexuality, disinhibited behavior. Associated with HSV-1 Gerstmann Syndrome -ANSWER Lesion of the parietal-temporal cortex. Agraphia, acalculia, finger agnosia, and left-right disorientation. Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome -ANSWER Confusion, ophtalmoplegia, ataxia, memory loss (anterograde and retrograde amnesia), confabulation, personality changes. Wernicke problems come in a CAN of beer: Confusion, Ataxia, Nystagmus. Paramedian pontine r...

patients blood smear shows that he has small hyper chromic red cells, without central pallor. this is called______ and what is another issue they will likely have? - Answer speherocytes gallstones this HIV drug gives people bad dreams, dizzy, poor sleep, anxiety... - Answer Efafirenz abacavir side effect - Answer abacavir someone has urge incontinence. what is initial treatment? - Answer frequent voluntary voiding pt on sumatriptan for migraine, what else should she NOT take - Answe...

bacteria associated with stomach cancer - Answer H. pylori bug in debilitated, hospitalized pneumonia patient - Answer Klebsiella 21-hydroxylase deficiency - Answer congenital adrenal hyperplasia congenital conjugated hyperbilirubinemia (black liver) - Answer Dubin-Johnson syndrome (inability of hepatocytes to secrete conjugated bilirubin into bile) iodine deficit/hypothyroidism - Answer cretinism - corticosteroid therapy - excess ACTH secretion by pituitary - Answer Cushing's s...

Hormone to test for menopause. -ANSWER high FSH Treatment of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia -ANSWER Direct thrombin inhibitors-Agatroban Then protamine sulfate PT or PTT for Heparin -ANSWER PTT PT or PTT for Warfarin -ANSWER PT Skin necrosis from warfarin, what do you do? -ANSWER Give heparin Antidote to excessive thrombolytics -ANSWER Aminocaproic acid Glanzmanns Thrombasthenia -ANSWER GPIIb/IIIa- platelet adhesion Bernard soulier -ANSWER Gp1b