... representative of the major areas covered in Harrison s Principles ofInternal Medicine, 15th ed., and (2) parallelthe format and degree of difficulty of the questions on theexamination of the ABIM. ... about 80% of cases; Marfan syndromeand neurofibromatosis do so in about 30 to 40% of cases. By contrast, Huntington’s chorea, HARRISON& apos;S INTERNAL MEDICINE PRINCIPLES OF 15 TH EDITION SELF-ASSESSMENT ... REVIEWFor use with the 15th editionofHARRISON S PRINCIPLESOFINTERNAL MEDICINE EDITED BYRICHARD M. STONE, MDClinical Director, Adult Leukemia ProgramDepartment of Adult OncologyDana-Farber...
... therapy, is of- ten fatalVI-27. The most common source of bacterial infection of intravenous cannulas is(A) contamination of fluids during the manufacturingprocess(B) contamination of fluids during ... to half of allcases of cardiotoxicity occur 6 months or more after completion of therapy. Efforts tolimit cardiotoxicity and thereby enable the administration of a higher total dose of anthra-cycline ... be of greatest help in the immediate man-agement of this boy would be(A) blood culture(B) examination of a blood smear(C) biopsy of an axillary lymph node(D) aspiration and Gram stains of...
... voltage but no evidence of right ventricularstrain. Which of the following statements is true?(A) The increasing doses of diuretics have helped herremain at home and freeof worsening dyspnea(B) ... inva-sion by a tumor(C) An echocardiogram would offer absolute proof of the diagnosis(D) The lack of pulsus paradoxus could suggest thepresence of an atrial septal defect(E) Heparin and IV nitroglycerin ... from loss of position sense characteristic of tabes dorsalis. About 10% of patients with late untreated syphilis experience cardiovascular complications, usually inthe form of aneurysms of the...
... None of the aboveI-127. (Continued) SELF-ASSESSMENTAND BOARD REVIEWFor use with the 17th editionofHARRISON S PRINCIPLESOFINTERNAL MEDICINE EDITED BYCHARLES WIENER, MDProfessor ofMedicine ... problem solving.This book is offered as a companion to the remarkable17th editionofHarrison s PrinciplesofInternal Medicine. It isdesigned for the student ofmedicine to reinforce the knowl-edge ... learning and as a resource for preparing for the Internal Medicine board examination.We appreciate the confidence of the editors of Harri-son’s,17th edition, to allow us to do this book. We thank...
... pretest probability of CAD of 50%, then the testresult of 2mm of ST-segment depression raises the post-test probability to 90%. If one knows the sensitivity and specificity of the test used, ... likelihood ratio.Reproduced with permission from BraunwaldE,Fauci AS,Kasper KL,et al. Harrison s PrinciplesofInternal Medicine. 16th ed. New York,NY: McGraw-Hill; 2005:10.%%99125102030405060708090959995905020105218070605040302010521PosttestprobabilityPretestprobabilityLikelihood ... in medicine. Retention of information is difficult;organization of the facts and recall of a myriad of data in precise application tothe patient is crucial. The purpose of this text is to facilitate...
... Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CaliforniaPeter C. Brazy, MD Professor of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Chief of ... Assistant Professor ofInternal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MichiganJanet L. Abrahm, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, ... Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MarylandRobert Hernandez, MD University of Miami School of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, ...
... majority of patients with APML. The mechanism of action of this drug appears to be induction of differentiation of the malignant clone. As such, patients enter remission slowly over aperiod of 30 ... manifestations of the presence of such anti-bodies are hemolysis, which is generally not severe, and a mild elevation of the reticulocytecount, agglutination of red cells, and an increased rate of hemolysis ... gait. MRI revealsatrophy of both lobes of the cerebellum. Serologic eval-uation reveals the presence of anti-Yo antibody. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this clinical syn-drome?(A)...
... Themagnitude of the shunt depends on the size of the defect, the diastolic properties of bothventricles, and the relative impedance of the pulmonary and systemic circulations. Defects of the sinus ... abnormalities consist of disor-ganized arrangements of myocytes in the ventricular septum. As many as 50% of thesecases have familial predisposition, often resulting from one of several mutations ... mucous clearance functions of many cell types,are composed of a double tubular structure. Abnormalities in one of the anatomic com-ponents of cilia can lead to a lack of coordinated ciliary action....
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