PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE - PART 8 doc

... prolactin XII-49. A 63-year-old woman presents to your clinic com- plaining of a 4- to 5-month history of anorexia, fatigue, and visual disturbances. She has a long history of hyper- lipidemia ... urinary 17-ketosteroid excretion (D) Failure of high doses of dexamethasone to sup- press plasma cortisol levels (E) Decreased plasma ACTH levels XII- 98. A 30-year-old man, the father...

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... radi- V. O NCOLOGY A ND H EMATOLOGY — Q UESTIONS 45 V-61. (Continued) V-64. (Continued) (E) placement of a CT-guided catheter for percutane- ous drainage of the abdominal abscess V-62. A 70-year-old ... content V -8 2 . A 2 8- year-old man presents with chest pain. Chest x-ray reveals a large mediastinal mass. Abdominal CT reveals periaortic lymphadenopathy. Physical examina- tion, includ...

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... pregnancy I-10. A 30-year-old Hispanic woman in the second tri- mester of pregnancy receives a 100-g oral glucose chal- lenge. She has elevated values of serum glucose at each of the 1-, 2-, and 3-h time ... data- base or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. 0-0 7-1 386 7 8- 5 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version...

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... middle-income American (B) A 25-year-old American in a low-income group (C) A 60-year-old Pakistani (D) A 25-year-old Zairian (E) A 70-year-old Dane VI-5. A 55-year-old woman from Oregon presents ... injection of medications (E) seeding from remote sites as a result of intermit- tent bacteremia VI- 28. A 73-year-old previously healthy man is hospital- ized because of the acute onset of...

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... prior history of heart or lung disease (D) A 5 8- year-old man with a 7-cm aneurysm and FEV of 0 .8 L 1 (E) A 67-year-old man with an 8- cm aneurysm and creatinine 3.2 mg/dL VII-36. A 6 8- year-old man ... A 2 8- year-old man with known preexcitation syn- drome and wide complex tachycardia (E) A 44-year-old man with atrial fibrillation without a prior history of heart disease VII-26. A...

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... reduced. Questions VIII-52 to VIII-53. An 1 8- year-old male patient arrives in your of ce com- plaining of a 2-day history of an upper respiratory viral syndrome. He complains of a nonproductive cough ... Glucocorticoids VIII- 48. A 25-year-old man with cystic fibrosis undergoes a double-lung transplantation. He is now 60 days post- transplant. He presents to your of ce complaining o...

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... administration of 25 g of D -xylose, a 5-h urine collection contains 0 .8 g of X. D ISORDERS OF THE G ASTROINTESTINAL S YSTEM — Q UESTIONS 233 X- 78. (Continued) X -8 1 . (Continued) (E) Preoperative use of hepatitis ... A 27-year-old Asian woman with thalassemia (B) A 49-year-old woman with two 2-cm stones (C) A 60-year-old man with gallstones visible on chest x-ray (D) A 45-year-...

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... activation and se- cretion of antibodies (B) IL-3-mediated B cell activation and induction of help for T cell activation (C) Monocyte-derived IL-6 activation of T cells (D) Complement-mediated endothelial ... celecoxib XI- 48. A 55-year-old woman complains of stiff, aching hands, especially in the morning. Radiographs of the hands reveal expansion at the base of the terminal pha-...

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... addition of XIII. N EUROLOGIC D ISORDERS — Q UESTIONS 337 XIII-31. (Continued)XIII- 28. A 59-year-old chronic alcoholic has loss of con- sciousness and shaking of his entire body for approxi- mately ... embolism XIII-25. A 19-year-old man has had an 8- year history of recurrent episodes of loss of conscious activity that last for seconds to several minutes. Sometimes he has as ma...

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... infarcts: A review. Neurol- ogy 32 :87 1 87 6, 1 982 . Fishman JA, Rubin RH: Infection in organ-transplant recip- ients. N Engl J Med 3 38: 1741– 1751, 19 98. Flier JS: Syndromes of insulin resistance: ... Med 339: 605– 615, 19 98. Rao PM et al: Effect of computed tomography of the ap- pendix on treatment of patients and use of hospital re- sources. N Engl J Med 3 38: 141–146, 19...

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