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What is sodium?
This lab value has been added to the traditional MELD score to improve the mortality prediction
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What is Rasmussen’s Aneurysm?
Dilation of a branch of the pulmonary artery in a tuberculous cavity that may lead to rupture and hemorrhage
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What is
Malassezia globosa (or Malassezia furfur)?
Causitive agent of tinea versicolor
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What is kidney stones?
Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) was evacuated from his New Year's vacation in the Galapagos due to this condition
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What is glutathione?
N-acetylcysteine is used in acetaminophen toxicity to replenish the stores of this substance that helps to detoxify active metabolites
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What is microscopic colitis?
Autoimmune cause of diarrhea in older adults with a normal appearing colon on colonoscopy
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What is Surfactant?
Naturally occuring compound that inactivates daptomycin in the lungs
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What is Diphyllobothrium?
Helminth associated with Vitamin B12 deficiency
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What is 26?
With the Affordable Care Act, adult children can remain on their parent's health insurance plan until they turn this age
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What is dabigatran or pradaxa?
Orally administered direct thrombin inhibitor used for non-valvular atrial fibrillation
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What is Lemmel's Syndrome?
Obstructive jaundice from a duodenal diverticulum
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What is Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)?
This diagnosis may cause a young woman to present with a pneumothorax. CT shows numerous cysts and biopsy shows copious smooth muscle.
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What is Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction?
Sudden fevers, rigors, and hypotension following treatment of syphilis with penicillin
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What is conjunctivitis or pink eye?
Bob Costas had to take a break from covering the Olympics due to this illness
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Who is Mickey Mantle?
This hall of fame athlete garnered controversy for his liver transplant in 1995 due to his extensive alcohol use
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What is Olmesartan?
Hypertensive medication that has been associated with a sprue like enteropathy.
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What is enterochromaffin cells or Kulchitsky cells?
Bronchial carcinoids are thought to arise from these cells of the bronchial epithelium
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What is Mycobacterium Marinum?
Also known as fish tank granuloma, this mycobacterium species causes soft tissue infection in limbs exposed to infected water
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What is Serogroup B?
The FDA recently allowed a special vaccine from Europe to be used at the campus of Princeton University due to an outbreak of this meningococcal serogroup
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What is bromide? (iodide or lithium are also acceptable)
Intoxication with this leads to a negative anion gap
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What is Chinese black bear or bile bears?
Preparations of ursodiol were made from the gallbladder of this animal
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What is plombage or extrapleural pneumonolysis?
Surgical treatment for cavitary tuberculosis used in 1930s involving collapsing the upper lung lobe by inserting inert materials such as Lucite balls under the ribs
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What are Basophils and mast cells?
Flushing and erythematous rash associated with the rapid infusion of vancomycin results from the stimulation of what TWO types of cell?
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What is trachea or windpipe?
In March 2013, this 3D printed body part was the first to be succesfully implanted in a 6 week old baby
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What is Cotard's Syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome?
Delusional belief that one is dead or rotting
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