Probabilistic reasoning — Flashcards

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What is the best initial screening test for HIV?

The diagnosis for diabetes mellitus may be made using _____ which reflects average blood glucose over 3 prior months

Brain arteriovenous malformations are developmental vascular lesions that present with intracranial _____, seizure, headache, or focal neurologic deficits

_____ is used to confirm diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia

What mnemonic is used to help in the diagnosis of measles (rubeola)?_____

What are the clinical manifestations and genetic basis of Tuberous Sclerosis?

What is the most common clinical application for an ELISA?

accuracy (diagnostic testing)

precision (diagnostic testing)

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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? _____

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Probabilistic reasoning Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards

Flashcard 1: What is the best initial screening test for HIV?

Answer: 4th generation HIV-1/2 Ag/Ab immunoassay

Flashcard 2: The diagnosis for diabetes mellitus may be made using _____ which reflects average blood glucose over 3 prior months

Answer: HbA1c

Flashcard 3: Brain arteriovenous malformations are developmental vascular lesions that present with intracranial _____, seizure, headache, or focal neurologic deficits

Answer: hemorrhage

Flashcard 4: _____ is used to confirm diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia

Answer: Bronchoalveolar lavage

Flashcard 5: What mnemonic is used to help in the diagnosis of measles (rubeola)?_____

Answer: 4 C's (cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, koplik spots)

Flashcard 6: What are the clinical manifestations and genetic basis of Tuberous Sclerosis?

Answer: Clinical features: Cutaneous angiofibromas (adenoma sebaceum), hypomelanotic macules (ash-leaf spots), Shagreen patches, seizures, intellectual disability, retinal hamartomas, cortical tubers, subependymal giant cell astrocytomas (SEGA), renal angiomyolipomas, and cardiac rhabdomyomas.::List the clinical features and genetics of Tuberous Sclerosis.

Extra: Genetics: Autosomal Dominant (AD) with variable expressivity; mutations in TSC1 (hamartin) or TSC2 (tuberin) genes.

Flashcard 7: What is the most common clinical application for an ELISA?

Answer: detection of antibodies in patient blood sample

Flashcard 8: accuracy (diagnostic testing)

Answer: the "trueness" of a test's results

Flashcard 9: precision (diagnostic testing)

Answer: consistency and reproducibility of a test's results

Flashcard 10: 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

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