"smudge cells" = - answer✔CLL (chronic so cells are fragile and smudge easily)
"auer rods" = - answer✔AML
Microcytic anemia with normal/increased serum iron or no response to iron tx = -
answer✔Thalassemia
"target cells" = - answer✔Thalassemia
Polycythemia = __________ mutation - answer✔JAK2
MC cause of gastritis - answer✔H. pylori
Tx of H. pylori infection - answer✔"CAP"
Clarithromycin
Amoxicillin
PPI
Viral hepatitis that causes a spiking fever - answer✔Hep. A
MC cause of cholecystitis - answer✔gallstones in the bile duct and subsequent infection with E.
coli
Infectious esophagitis MC in who? - answer✔Immunocompromised
(Candida, CMV, HSV)
Hallmark of infectious esophagitis - answer✔odynophagia (pain swallowing foods)
multiple corrugated rings seen on endoscopy = - answer✔Eosinophilic esophagitis
Mainstay of tx in PAD - answer✔Cilostazol
Helps to prevent NSAID-induced ulcers (but does not treat ulcers that are already present) -
answer✔Misoprostol
MC cause of pancreatitis in children - answer✔cystic fibrosis
hallmark of ulcerative colitis - answer✔bloody diarrhea
Labs for ulcerative colitis and crohn's - answer✔Ulcerative colitis = PANCA
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