A 45-year-old woman was diagnosed 6 months ago with acute he…
A 45-year-old woman was diagnosed 6 months ago with acute hepatitis B. She is unaware of how she contracted the virus. She takes no medications and since the diagnosis has started taking a multivitamin and begun to exercise. She now has the following serologies: HBsAg: negative anti-HBsAg: positive HBeAg: negative anti-HBcAg: positive Which of the following is your interpretation of those results?
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A 78 year-old male patient with history of HTN, DM, hyperlipidemia, atrial fibrillation, obesity, and HFpEF reports chronic dyspnea on exertion. He gets winded walking across the room and can only climb 1 flight of stairs before having to stop to catch his breath. Denies shortness of breath at rest. What NYHA class of heart failure would you characterize this patient as having?
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Name two different types of kidney stones (stone composition) and a specific risk factor for each type you name. Risk factor should be different for each type of kidney stone (do not use the same risk factor for both). 0.5 points given for each type of kidney stone/risk factor.
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John, a 43-year-old patient previously diagnosed with chronic low back pain comes to you for renewal of his opioid medication. When reviewing John’s medication use, you note that he takes his pain medication as prescribed and has had significant reduction in his pain level. He attends physical therapy routinely and is able to continue to work and function independently. On a recent vacation with his family, John ran out of opioid medication during the last 7 days of the trip. He states that he continued to function, but did begin to feel anxious and a sense of “craving” by the time he returned home. He is quite concerned with this, as he is afraid he may have become “addicted” to his pain medication. Based on your knowledge of addiction, you advise John that:
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