Year 3

• Features of ICP hypertension =

  • headache when coughing
  • headache better with standing
  • Papilloedema
• Neurotransmitter involved in migraine?

  Serotonin by the 5HT pathway
• Diagnosis of tremor that gets better with alcohol?

  Benign essential tremor
• Tremor that spreads from muscle to muscle?

  Chorea
• Enzyme inducing drugs =

  • rifampicin
  • anti-epileptics = carbamazepine
  • antiretrovirals
• What does metformin reduce the absorption of?

  Folate and B12
• What is an absolute contraindication in CKD (GFR<30)?

  diuretics
• Which anticoagulant do you give in antiphospholipid syndrome?

  Warfarin
• Smoking contraindication COCP

  > 35 + >15 cigarettes a day
• When can the OCP be given after birth?

  6 weeks
• Bulbar palsy?

  9-11

  Loss of gag reflex
• what muscles are spared in motor neurone disease?

  Extraocular muscles
• Which factor starts the intrinsic pathway?

  XII
• Which factor starts the extrinsic pathway?


  VII
• Which leukaemia would you see gingivitis in?

  AML
• When is gestational thrombocytopenia seen?

  3rd trimester
• Which 2 conditions can you not give platelets in?

  TTP

  HIT
• Which number of platelets is important in ITP?

  30
• Where would you see lymphoid blast cells?

  ALL
• Which leukaemia is linked to granulocytes?

  CML
• In which leukaemia would you see increased WCC and platelets?

  CML
• In myelofibrosis why do you see tear dropped shaped RBCs?

  extramedullary haematopoesis
• Name the 2 key features of ALL?

  Hepatosplenomegaly

  Lymphadenopathy
• Which triangle is the accessory nerve situated in?

  Posterior
• What is an incarcerated uterus?

  Retroverted uterus - causes pain + urinary retention

  Tx = catheterisation
• When is the maximum height of the uterus?

  36-38 weeks
• Where are medulloblastomas found?

  cerebellum
• Which MRI scan shows white fluid?

  T2