USMLE review flashcards
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Twenty USMLE-style review flashcards: classic diagnoses, antidotes, key labs, screening and genetics.
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- Most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia?
- Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Antidote for acetaminophen overdose?
- N-acetylcysteine.
- Most common cause of Cushing syndrome?
- Glucocorticoid medication.
- Peaked T waves suggest?
- Hyperkalemia.
- First drug to protect the heart in severe hyperkalemia?
- IV calcium (gluconate or chloride).
- Lung cancer type linked to SIADH?
- Small cell carcinoma.
- Most common cause of primary hyperparathyroidism?
- Parathyroid adenoma.
- Kayser-Fleischer rings point to?
- Wilson disease.
- Gene behind hereditary hemochromatosis?
- HFE (most often C282Y).
- Triad of normal pressure hydrocephalus?
- Gait problems, urinary incontinence, dementia.
- Most common cause of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage?
- Ruptured saccular (berry) aneurysm.
- Best screening test for thyroid disease?
- TSH.
- Antidote for heparin?
- Protamine sulfate.
- Reversal agent for dabigatran?
- Idarucizumab.
- HbA1c that diagnoses diabetes?
- 6.5 percent or higher.
- Most common type of kidney stone?
- Calcium oxalate.
- Antibody highly specific for lupus?
- Anti-double-stranded DNA (also anti-Smith).
- Drug class that causes dry cough through bradykinin?
- ACE inhibitors.
- Colorectal cancer screening start age at average risk?
- 45 years.
- Karyotype in Turner syndrome?
- 45,X.