Cardiology — Flashcards

Patients with acute pericarditis are at increased risk for _____

Hint: cardiac tamponade or mediastinitis

What are the three diabetic microvascular complications? _____

What is the likely diagnosis in a patient with fever, weight loss, an early diastolic murmur, and a left atrial mass on echocardiography? _____

What is the likely cause of dyspnea in patients with ankylosing spondylitis? _____

Circular bald spot with all hairs at equal length: Dx? _____ Etiology? _____ Diagnostics? _____

_____ = young Asian women _____ = elderly female with headache

Hint: Takayasu Arteritis or Giant Cell (temporal) arteritis

SLE can often affect the _____, causing seizures or psychosis

Hint: organ

_____ is a complication in up to 1% of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis

Treatment of painless thyroidits is _____

Cerebellar dysfunction causing tremor with movement worsening closer to target is suggestive of _____

Hint: diagnosis