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DocXus ✅ ACE inhibitor–induced angioedema ✅Most common drug class: 💊 ACE inhibitors ⛔ Swelling 🧏‍♂️ lips/tongue → airway risk ⚠️ 💉 Stop drug → usually resolves 🕊️

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Dr Honey choudhary 🩺 Itai-Itai disease 😣🦴💔 🇯🇵 First described in Japan (“itai-itai” = “ouch-ouch” disease) Cause: ☠️ Chronic cadmium poisoning (contaminated rice/water) Features: 🦴 Severe bone pain / osteomalacia 🚫 Renal dysfunction ❌ Fractures, wasting

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Dr. Muhammad Moor 💉 Vancomycin Infusion Reaction (Red Man Syndrome) — 👉Cause: Rapid IV infusion of vancomycin → histamine releasePrevention: 💡Infuse slowly (≥ 1 hour per gram) 💊Premedicate with antihistamines (diphenhydramine) if needed

<a href="/MoarSahitoPTI/">Dr. Muhammad Moor</a> 💉 Vancomycin Infusion Reaction (Red Man Syndrome) —

👉Cause: Rapid IV infusion of vancomycin → histamine releasePrevention:

💡Infuse slowly (≥ 1 hour per gram)

💊Premedicate with antihistamines (diphenhydramine) if needed
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MEDCRUX ✅Answer: B) Scrub Typhus Explanation: 🌾 Scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, transmitted by chigger (mite) bites. Fever, headache, myalgia Painless black eschar at bite site (pathognomonic) Tender lymphadenopathy 💊 Treatment: 👉 Doxycycline (drug of choice)

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DocXus ✅Mount Fuji Sign 👉 Indicates Tension pneumocephalus 💻 CT: Air under pressure separates frontal lobes → Mount Fuji appearance ⚠️ Seen after head trauma / neurosurgery / skull fracture 😖 Causes mass effect, headache, altered sensorium 🚨 Tx: Needle or burr-hole decompression

<a href="/docxusofficial/">DocXus</a> ✅Mount Fuji Sign
👉 Indicates Tension pneumocephalus
💻 CT: Air under pressure separates frontal lobes → Mount Fuji appearance
⚠️ Seen after head trauma / neurosurgery / skull fracture
😖 Causes mass effect, headache, altered sensorium
🚨 Tx: Needle or burr-hole decompression
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nervemed ✅Mallet finger = Extensor tendon rupture at DIP 🦴 Cause: Sudden forced flexion (ball injury 🎾) 🔬Clinical: Drooping fingertip, inability to actively extend DIP 👆 💊Rx: Continuous DIP extension splint 6–8 wks 🩹; surgery if large avulsion/volar subluxation

<a href="/nervemed/">nervemed</a> ✅Mallet finger = Extensor tendon rupture at DIP 🦴

Cause: Sudden forced flexion (ball injury 🎾)

🔬Clinical: Drooping fingertip, inability to actively extend DIP 👆

💊Rx: Continuous DIP extension splint 6–8 wks 🩹; surgery if large avulsion/volar subluxation
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nervemed ✅ Answer: A. Lisinopril 🧠 Explanation: Lisinopril → ACE inhibitor Causes ↑ bradykinin levels → leads to vasodilation and vascular permeability → angioedema (swelling of lips, tongue, face, airway). Mnemonic 💡: 👉 “ACE = Angioedema, Cough, Elevated bradykinin”

<a href="/nervemed/">nervemed</a> ✅ Answer: A. Lisinopril

🧠 Explanation:

Lisinopril → ACE inhibitor

Causes ↑ bradykinin levels → leads to vasodilation and vascular permeability → angioedema (swelling of lips, tongue, face, airway).

Mnemonic 💡:
👉 “ACE  = Angioedema, Cough, Elevated bradykinin”
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Dr. Akhil 🇮🇳 ✅ Teriparatide — treatment for severe osteoporosis 💊 Recombinant human PTH Given intermittently (daily SC injection) → stimulates osteoblasts more than osteoclasts → ↑ new bone formation 🦴 💪 Clinical Use: Postmenopausal osteoporosis with high fracture risk