Pneumonia (community-acquired, hospital-acquired) — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What type of pneumonia is typically caused by Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Legionella and viruses (RSV, CMV, influenza, adenovirus)? _____

Answer: Interstitial (atypical) pneumonia

Flashcard 2: Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia is treated with _____ as it does not respond to antibiotics.

Answer: steroids

Flashcard 3: Which cause of pneumonia can cause a high fever with watery diarrhea in a smoker?_____

Answer: Legionnaires' disease

Flashcard 4: _____ is a cause of pneumonia that most commonly affects the elderly, alcoholics, and diabetics (due to aspiration)

Answer: Klebsiella pneumoniae (bug)

Flashcard 5: _____ is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia

Answer: Streptococcus pneumoniae

Flashcard 6: Pneumocystis pneumonia is a(n) _____ pneumonia

Answer: interstitial (atypical)

Flashcard 7: Pneumocyctis pneumonia

Answer:

Extra: diffuse bilateral infiltrates on CXR

Flashcard 8: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis can affect the _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____.

Answer: CNS

Flashcard 9: prostatitis

Answer: acute - bacterial infection chronic - usually sterile

Extra: in male: dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, low back pain

Flashcard 10: lateral medullary syndrome

Answer: PICA stroke

Extra: acute vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus; loss of pain/temp in limbs/face, dysphagia, hoarseness, Horner's syndrome, ataxia, dysmetria, loss of gag reflexmnemonic: Don't PIC A hoarse that can't eat.