Tuberculosis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Conditions that cause _____ include infection, medication, vestibular dysfunction, and chemoradiation

Answer: vomiting

Flashcard 2: What is the prognosis for miliary tuberculosis?_____

Answer: Poor (100% fatality if not treated)

Flashcard 3: Macrolides can be used to treat _____ caused by S. pneumonia, H. infuenza, and Moraxella catarrhalis.

Answer: community aquired pneumonia

Flashcard 4: What cause of osteomyelitis is more common in vertebrae? _____

Answer: Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Pott disease)

Flashcard 5: What symptoms does primary TB typically present with? _____

Answer: Generally asymptomatic

Flashcard 6: Pneumocyctis pneumonia

Answer:

Extra: diffuse bilateral infiltrates on CXR

Flashcard 7: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis can affect the _____, _____, _____, _____, and _____.

Answer: CNS

Flashcard 8: prostatitis

Answer: acute - bacterial infection chronic - usually sterile

Extra: in male: dysuria, urinary frequency, urgency, low back pain

Flashcard 9: lateral medullary syndrome

Answer: PICA stroke

Extra: acute vomiting, vertigo, nystagmus; loss of pain/temp in limbs/face, dysphagia, hoarseness, Horner's syndrome, ataxia, dysmetria, loss of gag reflexmnemonic: Don't PIC A hoarse that can't eat.

Flashcard 10: acute disseminated (postinfectious) encephalomyelitis

Answer:

Extra: demyelinationrecent measles or VZV infection, recent vaccination