QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Condition contraindicating the use of triptans for migraine headaches -
✔✔Hypertension
✔✔True statement about varicose veins - ✔✔They are due to congenital valve
deformities
✔✔Measurement of fundal height indicating fetal growth restriction - ✔✔29 cm
✔✔Term for excess fluid in the pleural cavity - ✔✔Pleural effusion
✔✔Pathogen associated with common UTIs - ✔✔E coli
✔✔Medication inhibiting blood coagulation by blocking the active site of factor X-a -
✔✔Eliquis (apixaban)
✔✔Contraindication for menopausal estrogen replacement therapy in a 55 year old
woman - ✔✔Prior breast or uterine carcinoma
✔✔Sound indicating ascitic fluid during abdominal exam - ✔✔Dullness
✔✔Finding suggestive of osteosarcoma in a pediatric patient - ✔✔Pathologic fracture
✔✔Clinical manifestation suggesting primary syphilis - ✔✔A single painless genital
lesion
✔✔Medication used first line for a patient with transposition of the great arteries - ✔✔To
produce vasodilation and adequate oxygen saturation
, ✔✔Mechanism of action of 5-alpha reductase inhibitors in reducing BPH symptoms -
✔✔Decrease the size of the prostate
✔✔Type of incontinence most likely in a patient with Alzheimer's disease -
✔✔Functional
✔✔GTPAL nomenclature for a patient with a history of an uncomplicated term vaginal
delivery, preterm delivery of liveborn twins, and an 8 week elective abortion - ✔✔G5 T1
P2 A2 L2
✔✔Part of the circulatory system where the right lymphatic ducts drain - ✔✔Venous
✔✔Most likely presenting symptom in a pediatric patient with croup - ✔✔A barking
cough
✔✔Medication targeting postprandial glucose by blocking its transport across the
intestine - ✔✔Acarbose (Precose)
✔✔Type of insulin that helps reduce nocturnal hypoglycemia - ✔✔Long-acting
✔✔Symptoms suspicious for atypical community acquired pneumonia in a college
student living in a dorm - ✔✔Low grade fever, malaise, and clear lung fields on
auscultation
✔✔Lesions of condyloma accuminata in a male patient - ✔✔Multiple papular lesions
with a verrucous appearance
✔✔Historical finding predisposing a patient to testicular cancer - ✔✔Cryptorchidism
✔✔Advice for a patient taking an oral glucocorticoid - ✔✔Take it with food
✔✔Treatment for enuresis in a child - ✔✔Nasal desmopressin (DDAVP)
✔✔Medication not contraindicated in a patient with sulfa allergy - ✔✔Celecoxib
(Celebrex)
✔✔Characteristic elevated in a woman with polycystic ovarian syndrome - ✔✔Insulin
✔✔Medication not prescribed during an acute gout flare - ✔✔Allopurinol
✔✔Action for a Hispanic woman at 26 weeks of pregnancy who has been eating ice -
✔✔Check the patient for anemia