By Conrad Fischer

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Top Shelf: crucial studying for the inner medication Clerkship makes use of Conrad Fischer’s specific approach to distilling advanced thoughts into available, high-yield narrative to maximise your retention and advance your functionality at the clerkship and shelf exam.  Fischer doesn’t simply offer you what you want to “get by means of” -- he is helping you actually comprehend the perform of inner drugs -- so that you promises striking sufferer care and ace the shelf examination. This targeted paintings encapsulates Conrad Fischer’s greater than 20 years’ board evaluation school room event into one score-boosting, memory-enhancing textual content.

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Atrial septal rupture is highly unlikely as a complication o in arction. Were it present, an atrial septal de ect (ASD) would be associated with shunting into the RA, and the RA oxygen content would be higher than the usual venous pO2 o 40 mm Hg. Even though this is much sooner than you would expect to nd a VSD occurring a ter an MI, which is the presentation. , time course) in answering a “most likely diagnosis” question. Third-Degree AV Block • Bradycardia • Cannon “a” waves in the neck • Recent in erior wall myocardial in arction (both the in erior wall and AV node are ed by the right coronary artery) • reat with atropine i symptomic or hypotensive and pacemaker 34 Ch a p t e r 3 : Ca r d i o l o g y Free Wall Rupture/Tamponade • • • • • Few days to a week a er large anterior wall in arction Sudden hypotension to pulselessness Pulseless electrical activity Jugular venous distension (JVD) Clear lungs (no congestion) Valve Rupture • Severe murmur o MR (base to axilla) • Rales and pulmonary congestion • Intraaortic balloon pump as a bridge to surgery Dysrhythmia • Ectopy (premature atrial and ventricular contractions) gives an irregularly irregular rhythm with normal blood pressure.

B cells and immunoglobulins are normal in DiGeorge syndrome. Severe Combined Immunodef ciency In severe combined immunode ciency (SCID), both B cell and T cell immunity are def cient. Patients are pro oundly immunosuppressed, leading to bacterial, ungal, and viral in ections. reat with bone marrow transplantation. IgA Def ciency IgA de ciency is the most common primary immunode ciency. Patients requently survive into adulthood and may not exhibit any symptoms. Some have requent respiratory in ections and some progress to bronchiectasis.

Look or two R waves in V1 and V2. Used with permission from Philip Veith. • Nonhemorrhagic stroke within previous 3 to 6 months • Signs o active major bleeding such as melena • Severe hypertension (above 180/110) Relative contraindications are peptic ulcer disease, recent surgery, or diabetic retinopathy. Summary o Therapeutic Di erences in Acute Coronary Syndromes Non-ST elevat ion MI ST elevat ion MI Low molecular weight heparin Angioplasty (PCI) GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors Thrombolytics All patients with ACS are best treated initially with aspirin.

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