Cardiology — Flashcards

Flashcard 501: What skin finding is associated with thrombocytopenia and/or decreased platelet function? _____

Answer: Petechiae

Flashcard 502: Patients with subclavian steal syndrome may present with arm ischemia in the affected artery upon _____ or lifting the arm above the head

Answer: exercise

Flashcard 503: Polyarteritis nodosa may present with _____ disturbances/dysfunction

Answer: neurologic

Extra: Robbins: Clinical Features PAN is primarily a disease of young adults but can occur in all age groups. The clinical course typically is episodic, with long symptom-free intervals. The systemic findings—malaise, fever, and weight loss—are nonspecific, and the vascular involvement is widely scattered, so that the clinical manifestations can be varied and puzzling. A “classic” presentation involves some combination of rapidly accelerating hypertension due to renal artery involvement; abdominal pain and bloody stools caused by gastrointestinal lesions; diffuse muscular aches and pains; and peripheral neuritis, predominantly affecting motor nerves. Renal involvement often is prominent and is a major cause of death. Untreated, PAN typically is fatal; however, with immunosuppression, 5-year survival is close to 80%. Relapse occurs in up to 25% of the cases, more often in non–HBV-associated cases than those that follow HBV infection. The latter have a better long-term prognosis.

Flashcard 504: What significant laboratory finding is associated with Churg Strauss syndrome (eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis)? _____

Answer: Positive p-ANCA

Flashcard 505: Osteoarthritis often presents with pain in _____ joints after use (e.g. hip, knees, lower lumbar spine)

Answer: weight-bearing

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Flashcard 506: Diagnosis of Guillain–Barré syndrome is made by clinical findings, CSF analysis, and _____ studies

Answer: nerve conduction

Flashcard 507: _____ and _____ may cause anti-factor VIII antibodies resulting in acquired hemophilia A

Answer: RA

Flashcard 508: Acute rheumatic fever attack usually resolves, but may progress to _____ disease

Answer: chronic rheumatic heart

Flashcard 509: What is the general treatment for acute pyelonephritis? _____

Answer: Antibiotics

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Flashcard 510: Pulmonary infarction due to PE may present with hemoptysis and sudden-onset _____ and chest pain

Answer: dyspnea

Extra: * may present with hemoptysis due to capillary damage