Khayam Naderi

PUO EMQ

 

A.      Brucellosis

B.      Fabry’s Disease

C.      Weil’s Disease

D.      Still’s Disease

E.       Polymyalgia Rheumatica

F.       Rheumatic Fever

G.     Familial Mediteranean Fever

H.      Lassa Fever

I.        Bacterial Endocarditis

J.        Dematomyositis

K.      Dengue Fever

L.       Aspergillosis

M.    Malaria

N.     Bartonellosis bacilliformis

O.     Bacillus anthraxis

 

 

1.       A medical student presents with a 2 day history of fever, myalgia, chest pain, and conjunctivitis. He is rather unhappy about cutting short is canoeing holiday.

2.       A gap year student who had returned from Peru the previous week,  presents with fever, lethargy, and skin nodules. Examination and investigations reveal retinal haemorrhages and myocarditis.

3.       A 36 year old female presents with necrotic black nodules, lymphodenopathy, amd mediastinal heamorrhage. Blood cultures reveal Gram positive spore-forming rods.

4.       A 40 year old Red Cross employee presents with fever, headache, malaise, nausea, and bloody diarrhoea.

5.       A medical student exploring the wards of CX hospital is distracted by a grade 6 ejection systolic murmer. Intrigued, he approaches a middle-aged gentleman who is sipping a frappucino. A glance at his hands reveals  clubbing, Janeway lesions and Osler’s nodes. The medical student takes out his Cheese & Onion.

1.C

2. N

3.O

4.H

5.I