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19 Cards in this Set
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Meningitis in neonates Causes? Treatment?
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Group B strep, E. coli, Listeria. Treat with gentamicin and ampicillin.
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Meningitis in infants. Causes? treatment?
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Pneumococcus, meningococcus, H. influenzae. Treat with cefotaxime and vancomycin
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What should always be done prior to LP?
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Check for ↑ ICP; look for papilledema
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CSF findings:
-Low glucose, PMN predominance |
Bacterial meningitis
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CSF findings:
-Normal glucose, lyphocytic predominance |
Aseptic (viral) meningitis
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CSF findings:
-Numerouse RBCs in serial CSF samples |
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)
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CSF findings:
-↑ gamma globulins |
MS
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Initially presents with a pruritic papule with regional lymphadenopathy; evolves into a black eschar after 7 - 10 days. Treatment?
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Cutaneous anthrax. Treat with penicillin G or ciprofloxacin
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Findings in 3* syphilis
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Tabes doralis, general paresis, gummas, Argyll Robertson pupil, aortitis, aortic root aneurysms
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Characteristics of 2* Lyme disease
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Arthralgias, migratory polyarthropathies, Bell's palsy, myocarditis
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Cold agglutinins
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Mycoplasma
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A 24-year-old man presents with soft white plaques on his tougue and the back of his throut. Diagnosis? Workup? Treatment?
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Candidal thrush. Workup should include an HIV test. Treat with nystatin oral suspension
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Begin Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly P. corinii) pneumonia prophylaxis in an HIV-positive patient at what CD4 count?
Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) prophylaxis? |
≤ 200 for P. jiroveci (with TMP-SMX); 5-100 for MAI (with clarithromycin/axithromycin)
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Risk factros for pyelonephritis
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Pregnancy, vesicoureteral reflux, anatomic anomalies, indwelling catheters, kidney stones
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Neutropenic nadir postchemotherapy
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7-10 days
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Erythema migrans
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Lesion of 1* Lyme disease
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Classic physical findings for endocarditis
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Fever, heart murmur, Osler's nodes, splinter hemorrhages, Janeway lesions, Roth's spots
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Aplastc crisis in sickle cell disease
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Parvovirus B19
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Ring-enhancing brain lesion on CT with seiqures
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Taenia solium (cysticercosis)
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