Incase anyone else was thinking the same:
I was stuck between this and variant of unknown significance. However, variant of unknown significance is a sequence not a single nucleotide
As always, itโs almost better to ignore the pictures when possible. This gentleman has a peptic ulcer, which we know is caused predominately by H. pylori infection. H. pylori produces proteases and particularly urease, which allow it to increase the pH of its local environment by cleaving urea into ammonia, which is toxic to gastric mucosa. The picture demonstrates H pylori, which are evident with silver staining.
Donโt let them blind you with this patientโs misery. The issue of the day is that he has a DVT. Thatโs why he came to the ER in the first sentence and what the ultrasound shows at the end. Patients with cancer are hypercoagulable.
When people go camping, you should be thinking of zoonotic infections. Fun fact, New Mexico leads the country in cases of plague. Yes, that plague: Yersinia pestis. The โbubonicโ part of bubonic plague refers to the swollen infected nodes (โbuboesโ) characteristic of the disease, which often involve the groin (bubo is the Greek word for groin, who knew?). In this case, theyโre also describing a necrotic epitrochlear node. Classic treatment is with aminoglycosides, which bind to the 30s ribosomal subunit. (Note that Tularemia, caused by another gram-negative bacteria Francisella tularensis can present similarly but is more common in the midwest. Regardless, the two are often lumped together, the antimicrobial treatment is similar, and the answer in this case would be the same).
(Free 120, 2019 Update)
A 28-year-old man comes to the physician ...
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