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Signs of respiratory distress in pediatric
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Q. A 40-year-old man develops gynecomastia after taking a drug for heart failure.
A) Furosemide
B) Spironolactone
C) Enalapril
D) Digoxin
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6 Dec 2025
✅ Kiesselbach’s plexus = Little’s area
Located on anterior nasal septum
Site of 90% anterior epistaxis
Formed by arteries:
Anterior ethmoidal
Posterior ethmoidal
Sphenopalatine
Greater palatine
Superior labial (septal branch)
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27 Oct 2025
✅ Answer: Carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater
⚪ Silver stool (Thomas’s sign) seen
🩸 Mix of melena pale cholestatic stool
🚨 Indicates carcinoma of ampulla of Vater
🧠 Due to bile & pancreatic duct involvement
⚠️ Pathognomonic metallic stool appearance
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15 Oct 2025
✅ Modified Schober Test
🔹 Purpose:
To assess lumbar spine flexion — helps evaluate lumbar spine mobility
🔹 Interpretation:
Normal: Distance increases by ≥ 5 cm.
Positive Test: Increase < 5 cm → indicates Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) and other spondyloarthropathies.
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26 Oct 2025
Simplified hypertension protocol 🇮🇳
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23 Oct 2025
POEMS Syndrome 🧩
A rare paraneoplastic syndrome associated with plasma cell dyscrasia, showing multisystem involvement — neuropathy, organ enlargement, endocrine issues, monoclonal protein, and skin changes.
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23 Oct 2025
✅ Answer: A) Spironolactone
💊 Explanation:
Spironolactone is an aldosterone antagonist that also blocks androgen receptors and increases estrogen activity → leads to gynecomastia in males.
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19 Oct 2025
✅ Teriparatide — treatment for severe osteoporosis 💊
Recombinant human PTH
Given intermittently (daily SC injection) → stimulates osteoblasts more than osteoclasts → ↑ new bone formation 🦴
💪 Clinical Use:
Postmenopausal osteoporosis with high fracture risk
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19 Oct 2025
✅ Answer: A. Lisinopril
🧠 Explanation:
Lisinopril → ACE inhibitor
Causes ↑ bradykinin levels → leads to vasodilation and vascular permeability → angioedema (swelling of lips, tongue, face, airway).
Mnemonic 💡:
👉 “ACE = Angioedema, Cough, Elevated bradykinin”
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Rovsing's Sign
10 Oct 2025
✅ Answer: B) Rovsing’s sign
Explanation:
When pressure is applied to the left lower quadrant (LLQ) → pain is felt in the right lower quadrant (RLQ) 👉 Rovsing’s sign
Indicates peritoneal irritation due to acute appendicitis
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8 Oct 2025
✅Mallet finger = Extensor tendon rupture at DIP 🦴
Cause: Sudden forced flexion (ball injury 🎾)
🔬Clinical: Drooping fingertip, inability to actively extend DIP 👆
💊Rx: Continuous DIP extension splint 6–8 wks 🩹; surgery if large avulsion/volar subluxation
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5 Oct 2025
✅Mount Fuji Sign
👉 Indicates Tension pneumocephalus
💻 CT: Air under pressure separates frontal lobes → Mount Fuji appearance
⚠️ Seen after head trauma / neurosurgery / skull fracture
😖 Causes mass effect, headache, altered sensorium
🚨 Tx: Needle or burr-hole decompression
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4 Oct 2025
✅Answer: B) Scrub Typhus
Explanation:
🌾 Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by chigger (mite) bites.
Fever, headache, myalgia
Painless black eschar at bite site (pathognomonic)
Tender lymphadenopathy
💊 Treatment:
👉 Doxycycline (drug of choice)
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Mnemonic For krebs cycle
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4 Oct 2025
💉 Vancomycin Infusion Reaction (Red Man Syndrome) —
👉Cause: Rapid IV infusion of vancomycin → histamine releasePrevention:
💡Infuse slowly (≥ 1 hour per gram)
💊Premedicate with antihistamines (diphenhydramine) if needed
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