Diagnostic parsimony (Occam's razor) US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Diagnostic parsimony (Occam's razor) Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Diagnosis of diabetes insipidus is aided by the _____ test
Answer: water deprivation
Flashcard 2: Sleep apnea is diagnosed via _____, where a patient sleeps in a monitored setting and a number of related measurements are taken
Answer: polysomnography
Flashcard 3: What is the result of a dexamethasone suppression test if the cause of hypercortisolism is an adrenal cortical tumor?_____
Answer: neither low nor high dose dexamethasone suppresses cortisol secretion
Flashcard 4: tuberous sclerosis
Answer:
Extra: cutaneous angiofibromas (adenoma sebaceum), hypopigmented "ash leaf" spots, seizures, mental retardation, cortical and retinal hamartomas, renal cysts and angiomyolipomas, cardiac rhabdomyomas, astrocytomas
AD, but incomplete penetrance and variable expressivity TSC1/TSC2
Flashcard 5: What is the most common clinical application for an ELISA?
Answer: detection of antibodies in patient blood sample
Flashcard 6: accuracy (diagnostic testing)
Answer: the "trueness" of a test's results
Flashcard 7: precision (diagnostic testing)
Answer: consistency and reproducibility of a test's results
Flashcard 8: What is the next step in diagnosis for a patient with new-onset epigastric pain, nausea, hypotension, bradycardia and T-wave inversions in leads II, III, aVF?
_____
Answer: Right-sided precordial ECG
Extra:
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Flashcard 9: What is the preferred next step for diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease in symptomatic patients?
_____
Answer: Ankle-brachial index (ABI) with Doppler (ABI is <0.9 in PAD)
Extra:
* systolic BP of ankles divided by systolic BP of upper extemities
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Flashcard 10: Patients with psoas abscesses frequently position themselves to minimize psoas stretching and discomfort by engaging hip _____ and positioning into lumbar lordosis
Answer: flexion
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