Buzz Words

Question 1

Acute Mountain Sickness

Answer 1

Acetazolamide

Question 2

Increased Diuresis

Answer 2

• Hypercalcemia
• hyperphosphatemia,
• osmotic
• salicylate OD
• sed-hypnotics OD

Question 3

Common sulfur drugs

Answer 3

• Acetazolamide
• Thiazides
• Furosemide
• Sulfonylureas
• chlorpropamide
• tolbutamide
• glipizide
  etc)

Question 4

Hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis

Answer 4

• Thiazides

- Furosemide

Question 5

Hirsutism in females

Answer 5

• Excess androstenedione

- 21 Oh deficiency

Question 6

Rhabdomyelisis

Answer 6

• Metabolic myopathy
• hyperkalemia
• myoglobinemia

Question 7

Bile acid sequestrates

Answer 7

Interfere with the oral absorption of:

• warfarin
• digoxin
• thiazide
• cholestyramine
• colestipol

Question 8

Cinchonism

Answer 8

“Tinnitus”

• quinine
• quinidine
• pramaquin
• aspirin

Question 9

Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

Answer 9

• Sulfonamides
• PCNs
• barbiturates
• hydantoins
• antimalaria agent??

Question 10

Gingival Hyperplasia

Answer 10

• phenytoin

- nifedipine

Question 11

Conductance (Dromotopism)

Answer 11

ability to transmit the action potential through myocardial tissue

Question 12

automaticity

Answer 12

ability to generate an action potential spontaneously

Normal: chronotropism (occurs in pacemaker cells)

abnromal = bathmotropism (occurs in cells other than the SA node)

Question 13

Positive Coomb’s Test

Answer 13

methyldopa

Question 14

cyanide toxicity

Answer 14

Na+ nitroprusside

Question 15

treatment for baldness

Answer 15

minoxidil (rogaine)

Question 16

dry cough

Answer 16

captopril

Question 17

lupus-like syndrome

Answer 17

• Hydralazine
• Isoniazid
• Methyldopa
• Procaiamide
• Sulfonamides

Question 18

Throbbing headache

Answer 18

nitrates

Question 19

Variant (prinzmetal’s angina)

Answer 19

Angina precipitated by reversible spasms of coronary vessels

Question 20

Dihydropyridine used to treat subarachnoid hemorrhage, cerebellar astrocytoma

Answer 20

Nimodipine

Question 21

Monday disease

Answer 21

Nitrates (ie in ammunitions factory)

Question 22

pulmonary fibrosis

Answer 22

• Bleomycin
• busulfan

(procarbazixe, amiodarone)

Question 23

Ototoxicity

Answer 23

Aminoglycosides; Furosemide

Question 24

Gynecomastia

Answer 24

• Cimetidine
• androgens
• ketoconazole
• spironolactone

Question 25

Hypercalcuria

Answer 25

furosemide

Question 26

nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Answer 26

Thiazides

Question 27

Sulfasalazine

Answer 27

5-ASA compounds, also meselamine for Crohn’s Disease

Question 28

Antithrombin III

Answer 28

plus heparin- antigcoagulant

Question 29

Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa

Answer 29

Fibrinolytic drugs: - eptifibatide - tirofiban - abciximab

Question 30

Cholestyramine & colestipol

Answer 30

Significantly reduce the absorption of cholesterol and decrease LDL. Also decrease the intestinal absorption of warfarin, digoxin and thiazide

Question 31

tremor

Answer 31

propranolol

Question 32

hemorrhagic cystitis

Answer 32

Cyclophosphamide (acrolein; MESNA)