Cardiology — Flashcards

Which form of polycythemia is associated with dehydration and burns? _____

Which paraneoplastic syndrome presents with digital clubbing, arthralgias, joint effusions, and periostosis of tubular bones?_____

What is the mode of inheritance of medullary cystic kidney disease? _____*due to mutation in?

Common complications of varicose veins include chronic edema, stasis dermatitis, _____ ulcerations, poor wound healing, and infection

Cancer of what organ most commonly metastasizes to the brain?_____

Patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (1:500) have cholesterol levels of ~ _____ mg/dL

Intraparenchymal hemorrhage may occur secondary to _____ injury following an ischemic stroke

Hyperreflexia, spontaneous twitching, muscle cramping, tingling, and numbness are signs of which calcium imbalance? _____

Thalassemia is a cause of _____ (MCV) anemia

What demographic is most commonly associated with acute endocarditis due to staphylococcus aureus?_____