Step I Current events possibly on the test

[SpunkySpunk]

Hey all,

I know that they like asking current event med stuff on the test. I saw it pop up deep inside one of the other threads, but how about a fresh one for reference.

I'll start:

Radiation poisoning. Tx with KI to compete with radioactive I in the thyroid.

 

[bobsagat]

NBME 7 spoiler. Highlight to read:

An Iraqi veteran returned from duty with a cutaneous lesion. Biopsy showed intracellular organisms. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, which I don't believe is in First Aid anywhere.

 

[kstreet]

First new SLE drug in decades, approved this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belimumab

 

[ArcGurren]

NBME 7 spoiler. Highlight to read:

An Iraqi veteran returned from duty with a cutaneous lesion. Biopsy showed intracellular organisms. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, which I don't believe is in First Aid anywhere.

A similar question to this was on my real exam

 

[ThereHeIs]

Hey all,

I know that they like asking current event med stuff on the test. I saw it pop up deep inside one of the other threads, but how about a fresh one for reference.

I'll start:

Radiation poisoning. Tx with KI to compete with radioactive I in the thyroid.

This is called the Wolff Chaikoff effect, where large doses of exogenous iodide actually inhibit thyroid function. The effect lasts for about 10 days.

 

[ThereHeIs]

NBME 7 spoiler. Highlight to read:

An Iraqi veteran returned from duty with a cutaneous lesion. Biopsy showed intracellular organisms. Cutaneous leishmaniasis, which I don't believe is in First Aid anywhere.

This line is from Goljan HY notes...

"Pruritic skin lesion in Gulf War veteran: cutaneous leishmaniasis due to bite of sandfiy"