Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1131: Which vasculitide may present with aortic regurgitation and severe renovascular hypertension? _____

Answer: Takayasu arteritis

Flashcard 1132: Aortic stenosis may cause _____ as RBCs are damaged while crossing the calcified valve, producing schistocytes

Answer: macroangiopathic hemolytic anemia

Flashcard 1133: Polycythemia vera may present with transient _____ disturbances due to small foci of thrombosis and hemorrhage in the CNS

Answer: visual/neurological

Flashcard 1134: Chronic urinary obstruction from BPH may cause _____

Answer: post-renal AKI

Extra: * due to urinary obstruction, hydronephrosis, and eventual post-renal azotemia/AKI

Flashcard 1135: What is the most common cause of secondary spontaneous pneumothorax? _____

Answer: COPD (due to parenchymal destruction)

Flashcard 1136: Adenovirus commonly causes the common cold, which will present with _____, coryza, and cough

Answer: pharyngitis

Flashcard 1137: Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis may present with paranasal sinus abnormalities and skin nodules / palpable _____

Answer: purpura

Flashcard 1138: IV drug users are susceptible to acute bacterial endocarditis of the _____ valve from staphylococcus aureus

Answer: tricuspid

Flashcard 1139: What is the most common (and severe) form of renal disease in SLE patients? _____

Answer: Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (DPGN)

Extra: Atlas:

Flashcard 1140: Treatment of TTP is _____

Answer: plasma exchange