myasthenia gravis PREV HEALTHY, young adult male, hears voices in head for 2 men for the past 2 weeks, is afraid of physician when seen - CORRECT ANSWER BRIEF, PSCYHOTOIC DISORDER, usually lasts <1 month, SUDDEN onset, woman with progressive m. wkness and diff iculty walking for 3 months, loss of Patella and achilles tendon reflexes, wkness and DECREASED muscle bulk, sensations of joint/position/pain/temp are normal. cause? - CORRECT ANSWER DEGENERATION OF MOTORNEURONS OF LUMBAR CORD ---either ALS or poliomyelitis, patient is presenting with LMN lesion, desruction of Anterior horn sudden onset severe headache, right pupil is 6mm, nonreactive to light, impaired adduction, nuchal rigidity, aneurysm to what artery? - CORRECT ANSWER Pcom ---posterior communicating artery rupture --The aneurysm pressed on the nbme 16 Test Questions With Complete Solutions oculomotor nerve and Trochlear Nerve. The eye is blow bc the right thing to be lost on oculomotor compression is parasympathetics then the motor. The eye can't adduct bc Superior oblique he lps with adduction thats why its difficult for people with this paralysis to go down stairs they can't look medial and down. 21 yr old, 2 week hx of refractory back pain from MVA, asks for more opiods to manage pain, phys exam shows no abnormilites, corre ct response? - CORRECT ANSWER Determine which drugs have been prescribed for the patient in the past, want to give a nonjudgmental response. 65-yo F, 3mo hx of HA, wknss of her arms, and left flank pain; wt loss, Physical examination shows we akness of the proximal upper and lower extremity muscles. There is augmentation of strength with repetitive testing of the deltoid muscles. An MRI of the brain shows a single well -demarcated mass surrounded by edema in the right frontal lobe. A stereotacti c biopsy specimen of the lesion shows a malignant, small blue cell neoplasm that expresses citokeratin, chromogranin, and synaptophysin. - CORRECT ANSWER Pulmonary small cell carcinoma metastatic to the brain --50% of adult brain cancers are me ts, and the augmentation of muscle strength with repeated testing suggests lambert eaton, so small cell lung cancer metastasis female, motor vehicle accident, symptoms of meningitis , spleen removed? - CORRECT ANSWER Older asplenic person wit h meningitis --> knee jerk streptococcus pneumoniae breast cancer patient, develops increased numbness and tingling of hands and feet during chemotherapy intervals, which drug caused it? - CORRECT ANSWER Vincristine --mechanism --microtubules f or axonal transport 79 year old sustained hip fracture, gardener, wine with dinner every night, what would help to decrease risk for additional fractures? - CORRECT ANSWER WALK DAILY 76 year old lives in california, takes beta blocker for HT N, painful swelling of right big toe, drinks homemade distilled liquor, textile factory, what is the most likely cause? - CORRECT ANSWER drinking from home -distilled liquor. --CHRONIC ALCOHOL ABUSE --is a risk factor for 2nd gout 8 year old wit h breast bud development and few pubic hairs, mothers asks about this, appropriate response? - CORRECT ANSWER this is NORMAL development --
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