Cardiology — Flashcards

Restrictive lung disease may be caused by poor muscular effort, such as _____, myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barré syndrome

Failure to grow, short stature, mild obesity, and delayed puberty is associated with what hormone deficiency? _____

What acute phase reactant can be measured clinically as a nonspecific sign of ongoing inflammation? _____

_____ lymphoma typically presents in adults with confusion, memory loss, and seizures (variable presentation)

Onset of frontotemporal dementia typically occurs in the fifth or sixth decades of life with 25% inherited in a(n) _____ fashion

What is the likely diagnosis in a patient with irregular joint space narrowing, osteophytes, subcondral sclerosis, and subchondral cysts? _____

Patients with the B blood type cannot receive which blood types? _____

Calcitonin may be used to treat which calcium imbalance? _____

Sarcoidosis is more common in _____

Hint: smokers/non-smokers

One clinical feature of Cushing syndrome is muscle weakness with _____ extremities