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| urinary urgency, nocturia, frequncy, and hesitancy with constant back pain in an elderly man |
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| metastatic prostate cancer |
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| gray vaginal discharge and fishy odor |
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Gardnerella vaginalis
Clue cell->movement with potassium hydroxide (Whiff test)
Treat with oral metronidazole |
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| hypo or hperpigmented skin patches that become more visible after tanning |
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Pityriasis versicolor.
caused by Malassezia furfur
KOH preparation of skin scraping reveals a "spaghetti and meatball" appearance on light microscopy. |
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| facial pain, headache, and black necrotic eschar in the nasal cavity in a pt w/ diabetic ketoacidosis |
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| how is acute hypoglycemia treated in medical and non-medical setting? |
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Non-medical: intramuscular glucagon
medical: intravenous dextrose |
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| repeated episodes of throbophlebitis |
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| an immuno supressed pt w/ fever, chills and SOB, high pluse low BP presents with black lesions on abdoment. |
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| Ecthyma gangrenosum - caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia |
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repeated spisodes of unilateral sudden severe pain characterized by "stabbing" or "electric shock" and no more than a few seconds of duration triggered by stimulation to CN V.
what is it and what treatment? |
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| trigeminal neuralgia, treat with carbamazepine |
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| "red ragged" muscle fibers |
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| Pt w/ fever, malaise, fatigue, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, mild abdominal pain, dark urine, and an aversion to smoking |
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| Pt w/ history of celiac disease presents w/ erythematous purititic papules, vesicels, and bullae that appear bilaterally and symmetrically on the extensor surface. |
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| pt of any age presents with wasting of the muscles (muscular dystrophy), cataracts, heart conduction defects, endocrine changes, and myotonia. |
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| myotonic dystropy, autosomal dominant trinucleotide repeat expansion disease |
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| Kindergarten teacher presents abdominal cramping and bloody diarrhea |
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| 40 years old man from South America presents w/ dilated cardiomyopathy, megacolon, and megaesophagus. |
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| Chagas's disease, Trypanosoma cruzi. |
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| 34 yrd old man presents w/ multicenteric capillary memangioblastoma within the crebellum, retina, and spinal cord |
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| Von Hippel-Lindau disease. Pt is at increase risk of developing RCC. |
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| infant presents with hypotonia, poor feeding, jaundice, macroglossia, consitipation and umbilical hernia. |
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| congenital hypothyroidism |
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| cyanosis restricted to the lower body |
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| PDA with late onset reversal of shunt flow |
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| A pt w/ history of HIV presents w/ finding of ring enhancing lesion in both cerebral hemisphere. |
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| Toxoplasmosis. treat with sulfadiazine and pyrmethamine |
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| An actress uses experience of abuse to enhance her acting. What kind of ego defense is that? |
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| it antagonizes various opioid receptors (opioid antagonist)...used to treat opioids overdose |
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| a male pt presents with unilateral, repetitive brief heaches characterized by periorbital pain associated with ipsilateral lacrimation, rhinorrhead, horner's syndrome. What's going on? |
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| this guy is having cluster headache |
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| pt presents with variety of complaints in multiple organ systems (at least 4 pain, 2 GI, 1 sexual, 1 pseudoneurologic) over a period of years. What's the diagnosis? |
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| pt presents with episodic, hypertion, tachycardia, headache, diaphoresis, and tremor. |
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| catecholamine-secreting tumors |
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| a small child presents with uncontrolled bleeding, recurrent infections, and eczematous rashes...what's the diagnosis? |
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| middle age man who works in a gravel pit/industrial mine presents with an X-ray that shows multiple calcified nodules in the upper lung. PPD test is neg. What's the diagnosis? |
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| Shortly after delivery, a woman was found having massive bleeding and placenta was found attached to myometrium. what's the diagnosis? |
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| Pt presents with proximal muscle weakness and facial rash. has positive ANA and anti-Jo-1. What's the diagnosis? |
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| a young female presents with lower abdominal pain. pregnancy test is positive. What's the likely diagnosis? |
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| pt presents with pain and stiffness in shoulders and hips, often with fever, malaise, and weight loss. There is no muscular weakness. What's the diagnosis? |
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| pt with history of debilitating arthralgias presents with dark connective tissue, pigmented sclera, and urine turns black on standing. What's the diagnosis? |
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| alkaptonuria, def of homogentisic acid oxidase. |
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| pt presents with heptatomegly, skin hyperpigmentation, and DM...what's the diagnosis? |
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| pt presents with tinnitus, vertigo, and sensorineural hearing loss...what's the diagnosis? |
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Meniere's disease
increased volume and pressure of endolymph |
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| what is characterized by hyperparakeratosis, accanthosis, rete ridge elongation, mitotic activity above the epidermal basal cell layer, and a reduced stratum granulosum? |
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| an infant presents with dystonia, poor feeding, and his diaper smells like burnt sugar, what's the diagnosis? |
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| Maple syrup urine disease |
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for dissolving clots.
promotes thrombolysis by converting plasminogen to plasmin which degrades fibrins and fibrinogen. |
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| pt presents with nasal musosal ulceration and glomeruloephritis...what's the diagnosis? What's the antibody culprit here? |
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Wegener's
C-ANCA (cytoplasmic staining atntineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) |
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