Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 2331: What is the next step in management for a patient that develops a cardioembolic stroke secondary to bacterial endocarditis? _____

Answer: IV antibiotics and observation

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Flashcard 2332: Sickle cell and chronic hemolysis → folate deficiency = _____ reticulocyte count and _____ MCV

Answer: ↓

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Flashcard 2333: After a hip fracture, surgery may be delayed up to 72 hours to evaluate for _____

Answer: surgical risk/ensure medical stability

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Flashcard 2334: Shock, acute onset chest pain and pulseless electrical activity 5 days post-MI with clear lungs is suggestive of _____

Answer: ventricular free wall rupture

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Flashcard 2335: What neurological pathology typically presents with nerve damage in two or more nerves in separate parts of the body in a patient with vasculitis? _____

Answer: Mononeuritis multiplex

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Flashcard 2336: _____ is characterized by rising pressures in the pericardium that are transmitted to all four cardiac chambers, leading to equalization of diastolic filling pressures.

Answer: Cardiac tamponade

Flashcard 2337: Walking, bathing, dressing, eating, continence, toileting, grooming = _____

Answer: ADL

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Flashcard 2338: What is the likely diagnosis in a young woman that presents with joint pain/swelling, especially in the wrists and MCP/PIP joints? She also experiences morning stiffness that lasts for > 1 hour. _____

Answer: Rheumatoid arthritis

Extra:  https://onlinemeded.org/spa/rheumatology/approach-to-joint-pain/acquire?ref=anki morning stiffness and involvement of the MCP/PIP joints is classic; may also have rheumatoid nodules (e.g. on the elbow) 

Flashcard 2339: MCC of acute bacterial endocarditis? _____

Answer: S. aureus

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Flashcard 2340: What is the likely diagnosis in a middle-aged patient that develops coarse facial features, digit enlargement, arthralgias, hypertension, and carpal tunnel syndrome? _____

Answer: Acromegaly

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