high yield point of the day - usmann76

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hashimotos thyroiditis is a risk factor for thyroid lyphoma

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best test to detect Histoplasmosis is Urine Ag.
Rx: Itraconozole

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alcoholic or diabetic presenting with signs of pneumonia with "mucoid sputum"..

klebsiella infection..encapsulated organism..

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best treatment for cocaine induced subencardal is benzo,asprn, nitrates,
if transmural ischemia then use throbolytics as well

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bad prognostic factor of acute asthma exacerbation a normal or raised PCO2. Note low PO2 upto 60 is not bad.

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hiv pt with very low cd4 develops productive cough organism is pneumococcus

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Basal cell carcinoma - Mohs microsurgery
thyroglossal duct cyst - Sistrunk operation
hypertropic pyloric stenosis- Ramsedtpylorotomy

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in de quervain thyroiditis ESR is also high along with t3 t4 initially

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HEP C- associated w/ Cryoglobulinemia and Porpyria cutanea tarda
HEp B- associated w/ PAN
Prim biliary cirrhosis- loss of intrahepatic bile ducts- vanishing bile duct syndrome
Prim sclerosing cholangitis- inflammation and fibrosis of intra and extrahepatic bile ducts + associated w/ Ulcerative colitis

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OCP's do not cause insulin resistence or wt gain.