Cardiology — Flashcards

Do absence seizures present as episodes lasting 1-2 minutes? _____

_____ is characterized by exertional leg pain (claudication) and dermal atrophy (thin/shiny skin, loss of hair)

Hint: Which disease

What is the most appropriate pain management for a patient with advanced prostate cancer with bony metastasis, status-post orchiectomy? _____

What is the difference between hypertensive urgency and hypertensive emergency? Hypertensive emergency is characterized by _____

How does secretion of the following hormones change in secondary adrenal insufficiency? Glucocorticoids: _____ Androgens: _____ Mineralocorticoids: _____

The most significant complication of idiopathic intracranial hypertension is _____

Treatment of Kallman syndrome and craniopharyngioma is _____

Myasthenic _____ is often precipitated by infection, surgery, and medications and can lead to severe respiratory muscle weakness and respiratory failure

Which movement disorder presents as a high-frequency tremor with sustained posture (e.g. outstretched arms), often with a family history of tremor? _____

Metastases to brain _____ > _____ > melanoma > colon > kidney