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Levels for pre-diabetes Ans✓✓✓HbA1c 42-47 (6-6.4%)
Fasting glucose 6.1-6.9
Types of cryoglobulinaemia and associations of each Ans✓✓✓type I:
multiple myeloma, Waldenstrom macroglobulinaemia
type II: hepatitis C
type III: rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's
Gram-negative coccobacilli causing meningitis- which pathogen?
Ans✓✓✓Haemophilus influenzae
Meningitis tx of penicillin allergic? Ans✓✓✓Chloramphenicol
Anatomy of stroke
- Anterior cerebral artery
- Middle cerebral artery
- Posterior cerebral artery
- Weber's syndrome
- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery
- Anterior inferior cerebellar artery
- Retinal/ophthalmic artery
,- Basilar artery
- Lacunar strokes Ans✓✓✓- Anterior cerebral artery: Contralateral
hemiparesis and sensory loss, lower extremity > upper
- Middle cerebral artery: Contralateral hemiparesis and sensory loss,
upper extremity > lower
Contralateral homonymous hemianopia
Aphasia
- Posterior cerebral artery: Contralateral homonymous hemianopia with
macular sparing
- Weber's syndrome (branches of the posterior cerebral artery that supply
the midbrain): Ipsilateral CN III palsy
Contralateral weakness of upper and lower extremity
- Posterior inferior cerebellar artery (lateral medullary syndrome,
Wallenberg syndrome) Ipsilateral: facial pain and temperature loss
Contralateral: limb/torso pain and temperature loss
Ataxia, nystagmus
- Anterior inferior cerebellar artery (lateral pontine syndrome)
Symptoms are similar to Wallenberg's (see above) + Ipsilateral: facial
paralysis and deafness
- Retinal/ophthalmic artery: Amaurosis fugax
- Basilar artery: 'Locked-in' syndrome
- Lacunar strokes (basal ganglia, thalamus and internal capsule): either
isolated hemiparesis, hemisensory loss OR hemiparesis with limb ataxia
, ECG changes in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
Ans✓✓✓Epsilon waves
TWI in V1-V3
Atrial septal defect ECG changes with each type Ans✓✓✓Atrial septal
defect- RBBB
Primum (Lower atria)- LAD
Secondum (upper atria)- RAD
Familial Mediterranean Fever symptoms and tx Ans✓✓✓Intermittent
fever and abdo pain in Turkish, Armenian/Middle East ethnicities
Tx: Colchicine
Antibiotic that causes hepatocellular liver derangement
Ans✓✓✓Nitrofurantoin
Amyloidosis diagnostic test Ans✓✓✓biopsy of skin, rectal mucosa, or
abdominal fat
Congo red stainL apple-green birefringence
Chicken pox leading to skin infection- which pathogen? Ans✓✓✓Group
A strep
Tx of cryptosporidium Ans✓✓✓Nitazoxanide or rifaximin