This picture may be seen in raised intracranial pressure This picture may be seen in raised intracranial pressure
What is papilloedema?
What pathology is demonstrated here?
What is bacterial conjunctivitis?
This disease that affects immune function causes these findings on fundoscopy?
What is diabetes mellitus?
This disease is often associated with an immunocompromised state.
What is CMV retinitis?
Name the organism causing this presentation.
What is loa loa?
This antiretroviral drug should not be given to treatment naive women with a CD4 count abouve 250 cells per cubic millilitre.
What is nevirapine?
This new form of a popular NRTI has been found to have reduced bone and renal toxicity relative to the original form.
What is tenofovir alafenamide?
This test should be ordered prior to the use of the drug maraviroc.
What is a tropsim assay?
HIV 2 is intrinsically resistant to these classes of antiretrovirals.
What are NNRTI's and fusion inhibitors (enfuvirtide)?
This integrase inhibitor is being investigated for use as a once monthly injectable treatment for HIV.
What is cabotegravir?
This score is used to determine inpatient vs outpatient treatment in community acquired pneumonia. It also predicts mortality risk.
What is the CURB-65 score?
If you score <70 using this index then you are considered low risk and your community acquired pneumonia may be managed as an outpatient.
What is the Pneumonia Severity Index?
This score from 0 to 71 is a sevrity of disease classification system applied within 24 hours of admission to the ICU.
What is the Acute Physiology, Age,Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHEII) score?
This score is used to assess the risk of invasive candidiasis.
What is the Candida Score/ Candida Risk Score?
This score is used to evaluate the need for transoesophageal echo in patients with enterococcal bacteraemia.
What is the NOVA score?
This common infection can lead to cellulitis.
What is tinea pedis?
This fungus which received a name change is the most common opportunistic infection among HIV positive patients.
What is pneumocystis jiroveci ?
Treatment of infection caused by this organism may include repeat lumbar punctures to control intracranial pressure.
What is cryptococcus neoformans?
This condition sometimes caused by a fungus was initially called by the name of the place in which it was first seen.
What is Madura foot/ Mycetoma?
This candidal infection rose to prominence in 2016 prrmarily because of high levels of resistance to Azoles and Amphotericin B.
What is candia auris?
This worm is historically listed as the most common cause of Loffler's syndrome.
What is ascaris lumbricoides?
This nematode is the major cause of lymphatic filariasis.
What is Wuchereria bancrofti?
This parasite linked to undercooked fish (e.g wild caught Pacific salmon) can burrow into the gastric mucosa.
What is Anisakis simplex?
This filarial nematode can cause itching,subcutaneous nodules and blindness.
What is Onchocerca volvulus?
Fluid from the hydatid cyst of this organism can immunologically sensitize the host causing anaphylaxis when the cysts rupture.
What is echinococcus granulosus?