Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 1681: Best diagnostic modality for outpatient asthmatic patient? _____ Other, ways to diagnose asthma? Expected results? _____

Answer: PFT

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Flashcard 1682: The HPV vaccine is typically administered beginning at age 11 - 12 and is recommended for everyone up until age _____

Answer: 26

Extra: The routine age for vaccination is 11-12 years, but it can be started at age 9.

Flashcard 1683: _____ presents with gummas, tabes dorsalis, general paresis, aortitis, and Argyll-Robertson pupil.

Answer: Tertiary syphilis

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Flashcard 1684: Ménière disease typically presents with a triad of _____, _____, and _____

Answer: tinnitus

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Flashcard 1685: hCG = _____ thyroid function

Answer: ↑

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Flashcard 1686: Atrial septal defects are usually asymptomatic, but may present with a(n) _____ on cardiac auscultation, and rarely _____ HTN and _____ syndrome

Answer: fixed split S2

Flashcard 1687: What is the likely diagnosis in a young patient with a heavy smoking history that presents with ulcers/gangrene of the distal fingers and toes? _____

Answer: Buerger disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)

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Flashcard 1688: ↑↑ Hematocrit and ↓ EPO is suggestive of _____

Answer: polycythemia vera

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Flashcard 1689: What is the recommended treatment for patients with primary hyperaldosteronism that are poor surgical candidates? _____

Answer: Aldosterone antagonists (e.g. spironolactone, eplerenone)

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Flashcard 1690: Pulmonary edema is seen in _____

Answer: dilated cardiomyopathy

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