Misc

Question 1

Name 6 systemic complications of RA

Answer 1

1. Pyodema gangrenosum
2. Peripheral neuropathy
3. Felty’s syndrome (neutropenia, hypersplenism + RA)
4. Pulmonary fibrosis and Pleuritis
5. Myocarditis / constrictive pericarditis
6. Nail fold vasculitis

Question 2

Alpha synucleinopathies

Answer 2

Parkinson’s & DLB

Multi systems atrophy

Question 3

Which receptors / channels in the brain are inhibitory?

Answer 3

Chloride / GABA

Benzos and barbituates increase chloride channel activity

Question 4

Ertapepem has no activity against what?

Answer 4

Pseudomonas