Miscellaneous 4

Question 1

Light’s criteria

Answer 1

1) Pleural fluid to serum protein ratio grater than 0.5
2) LDH to serum LDH greater than 0.6
3) pleural fluid LDH greater than 2-3s upper limit of normal serum LDH

Question 2

Causes of exudative effusions

Answer 2

• infection
• malignancy
• pancreatitis
• PE

Question 3

Renally protective diabetes drugs

Answer 3

SGLT2

Question 4

Churg strauss clinical features

Answer 4

• asthma, allergic rhinitis, recurrent sinusitis
• lungs and digestive tract
• migratory polyarthritis

Question 5

Chronic eosinophilic PNA

Answer 5

• bilateral pleural based infiltrates
• upper and lower
• central lung regions and perihilar regions spared

Question 6

CSF protein with viral meningitis

Answer 6

normal to mildly elevated

Question 7

cell differential in viral vs. bacterial meningitis

Answer 7

• viral = lymphocyte predominant

- bacterial = neutrophil predominant