MCAT PROMAX
System Wise Arranged & Noted Step 2 CK Uworld
System Wise Arranged & Noted Step 2 CK Uworld
Contents
ACUTE BACTERIAL RHINOSINUSITIS ...........................................................................................................................6
UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT ILLNESSES .....................................................................................................................7
STREPTOCOCCAL PHAYNGITIS ................................................................................................................................7
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PHARYNGITIS IN ADULTS.......................................................................8
EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PHARYNGITIS IN CHILDREN ...................................................................8
INFLUENZA ..............................................................................................................................................................9 PNEUMONIA IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS ............................................................................................................................ 10
RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS ................................................................................................................................. 11
ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER ...................................................................................................................................... 12
TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME ....................................................................................................................................... 13
NECROTIZING SURGICAL SITE INFECTION ............................................................................................................... 13
LYMPHADENITIS ...................................................................................................................................................... 14
ACUTE CERVICAL ADENITIS IN CHILDREN ............................................................................................................ 14
LYME DISEASE .......................................................................................................................................................... 15
EARLY LOCALIZED DISEASE .................................................................................................................................. 15
EARLY DISSEMINATED AND LATE DISEASE .......................................................................................................... 15
FACTORS THAT MAKE LYME DISEASE LESS LIKELY .............................................................................................. 16
HOW TO REMOVE TICK IF FOUND ATTACHED: ................................................................................................... 16
PREVENTION IN LYME ENDEMIC AREAS .............................................................................................................. 16
PROPHYLAXIS CRITERIA OF LYME DISEASE .......................................................................................................... 16
HEMOPHIILUS INFLUENZAE ..................................................................................................................................... 17
BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS .......................................................................................................................................... 18
CONTRAINDICATIONS AND PRECAUTIONS TO DIPHTHERIA, TETAUS AND PERTUSSIS CONTAINING VACCINE . 19
TUBERCULOSIS (TB) ................................................................................................................................................. 20
PPD SKIN TEST INTERPRETATION: ....................................................................................................................... 20
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS ....................................................................................................................................... 21
MICROBIOLOGY OF INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS ................................................................................................... 23
EHRLICHIOSIS ........................................................................................................................................................... 24 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES ........................................................................................................................ 25
VAGINAL DISCHARGE ............................................................................................................................................... 28 PHYSIOLOGIC LEUKORRHEA ................................................................................................................................ 28
BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS ........................................................................................................................................ 28 Page 2 TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS ................................................................................................................................. 28
CONGENITAL INFECTIONS ....................................................................................................................................... 29
SYPHILIS ................................................................................................................................................................... 30 CONGENITAL SYPHILIS ......................................................................................................................................... 31
NEISSERIA GONORRHEA .......................................................................................................................................... 31
GONOCOCCAL CERVICITIS ................................................................................................................................... 31
DISSEMINATED GONOCOCCAL INFECTION ......................................................................................................... 32
CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS .................................................................................................................................... 32
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE (PID) ................................................................................................................... 32
VULVOVAGINITIS IN PREPUBERTAL CHILDREN ....................................................................................................... 33
NEONATAL CONJUNCTIVITIS ................................................................................................................................... 34
CHEMICAL ............................................................................................................................................................ 34 GONOCOCCAL ...................................................................................................................................................... 34 CHLAMYDIA ......................................................................................................................................................... 34 URINARY TRACT INFECTION (UTI)............................................................................................................................ 35
URETHRITIS .......................................................................................................................................................... 35 STRUVITE STONES ................................................................................................................................................ 35 PYELONEPHRITIS.................................................................................................................................................. 36 FOODBORNE DISEASE .............................................................................................................................................. 37
DIARRHEA ................................................................................................................................................................ 38 TRAVELLER’S DIARRHEA ...................................................................................................................................... 39
Clostridium difficile COLITIS ................................................................................................................................ 40 HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME ............................................................................................................................ 41
NEUTROPENIA ......................................................................................................................................................... 41 COMMON OROPHARYNGEAL LESIONS IN CHILDREN .............................................................................................. 42
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HERPANGINA AND HERPETIC GINGIVOSTOMATITIS ......................................................... 43
HERPANGINA ....................................................................................................................................................... 43 MENINGITIS ............................................................................................................................................................. 43 BACTERIAL MENINGITIS ....................................................................................................................................... 44
BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN >1 MONTH .......................................................................................... 45 VIRAL MENINGITIS ............................................................................................................................................... 45
NEONATAL SEPSIS .................................................................................................................................................... 46 JOINT FLUID CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................................................................................... 47
SEPTIC ARTHRITIS IN CHILDREN .............................................................................................................................. 48 Page 3
PROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION ................................................................................................................................ 49 CAT BITES ................................................................................................................................................................. 49 CAT SCRATCH DISEASE ............................................................................................................................................ 50
NOCARDIOSIS .......................................................................................................................................................... 51 ACTINOMYCOSIS ...................................................................................................................................................... 51 LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA ................................................................................................................................... 52
VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA ................................................................................................................. 53 OSTEOMYELITIS ....................................................................................................................................................... 54 OSTEOMYELITIS DUE TO NAIL PUNCTURE WOUND ............................................................................................ 54
OSTEOMYELITIS IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE ............................................................................................................. 54
VERTEBRAL OSTEOMYELITIS ................................................................................................................................ 55 AMEBIC LIVER ABSCESS ........................................................................................................................................... 55
TOXOPLASMA GONDII ............................................................................................................................................. 56 MATERNAL INFECTION ........................................................................................................................................ 56
FETAL INFECTION ................................................................................................................................................. 56 MALARIA .................................................................................................................................................................. 57 BABESIOSIS .............................................................................................................................................................. 58 ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS ................................................................................................................................... 59
CUTANEOUS LARVA MIGRANS ................................................................................................................................ 59 TRICHINELLOSIS ....................................................................................................................................................... 59 NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS ............................................................................................................................................. 60 ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS ............................................................................................................................... 60
HISTOPLASMOSIS .................................................................................................................................................... 61 BLASTOMYCOSIS ...................................................................................................................................................... 62 CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGOENCEPHALITIS ............................................................................................................... 63
PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA (PCP) ........................................................................................................................ 63 HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS ........................................................................................................................................... 65
HSV ENCEPHALITIS ............................................................................................................................................... 65 RISK FACTORS FOR NEONATAL HSV INFECTION .................................................................................................. 65 ECZEMA HERPETICUM ......................................................................................................................................... 66
VARICELLA ZOSTER .................................................................................................................................................. 66 Post-exposure prophylaxis .............................................................................................................................. 66
INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS ............................................................................................................................... 67 CMV ......................................................................................................................................................................... 68 Page 4 CONGENITAL INFECTION ..................................................................................................................................... 68
PARVOVIRUS B19 ..................................................................................................................................................... 68 CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER ............................................................................................................................................. 69
RUBELLA .................................................................................................................................................................. 70 MEASLES .................................................................................................................................................................. 70
KEY RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN .............................................................................................. 72
CROUP (LARYNGOTRACHEOBRONCHITIS) ............................................................................................................... 72 RABIES...................................................................................................................................................................... 73 HEPATITIS A ............................................................................................................................................................. 74 HEPATITIS B ............................................................................................................................................................. 75 HEPATITIS B AND FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE ............................................................................................... 77
HEPATITIS C ............................................................................................................................................................. 77 CLINICAL FEATURES OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C ................................................................................................... 78
SCREENING ...................................................................................................................................................... 78 HEPATITIS C IN PREGNANCY ................................................................................................................................ 79
HIV ........................................................................................................................................................................... 79 ACUTE HIV INFECTION ......................................................................................................................................... 79 RECOMMENDED SCREENING FOR HIV ................................................................................................................ 80
HIV SCREENING IN PREGNANCY ...................................................................................................................... 81
HIV SCREENING IN INFANCY ............................................................................................................................ 81
PRENATAL, INTRAPARTUM AND POSTNATAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV PATIENT ................................................. 82
OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS IN HIV ................................................................................................................... 83
ODYNOPHAGIA AND DYSPHAGIA IN PATIENTS WITH HIV .................................................................................. 84 ESOPHAGITIS IN HIV ............................................................................................................................................ 84
DIARRHEA IN AIDS ............................................................................................................................................... 85 COMMON ANTIRETROVIRAL SIDE EFFECTS ......................................................................................................... 85
VACCINATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................ 86 RECOMMENDED VACCINES FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS ....................................................................................... 87
RECOMMENDED VACCINES FOR ADULTS ............................................................................................................ 88
TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS ....................................................................................................................................... 89 ROTAVIRUS .......................................................................................................................................................... 89 MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINE ................................................................................................................................ 90
VACCINATION IN ASPLENIC PATIENTS ................................................................................................................. 90
VACCINES IN CLD PATIENTS ................................................................................................................................. 91
Page 5 VACCINES RECOMMENDED FOR ADULTS WITH HIV ........................................................................................... 92 OCCUPATIONAL POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS IN HIV PATIENTS .................................................................... 93
ACUTE BACTERIAL PAROTITIS POST-OPERATIVELY ................................................................................................. 93
POST-OPERATIVE FEVER .......................................................................................................................................... 94