Blueprints Medicine

More than just Board review for USMLE Steps 2 and 3, Blueprints can help you during clerkship rotations and subinternship. They are especially helpful when studying areas outside your specialty. Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and osteopaths find Blueprints a helpful companion to their study materials as well./ Concise, accurate, clinical high-yield content covers all you need to know for the USMLE and rotations/ Includes USMLE-style questions with full explanations provided in the answers/ Updated with the help of residents to maintain a student-to-student approach/ Key Points in every section highlight the most important, high-yield information for each topic/ Color-enhanced design increases the usefulness of figures and tables

Reviewers

viii

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

x

Abbreviations

xi

Part I Cardiovascular

1

(54)

Chest Pain

3

(3)

Shock

6

(3)

Coronary Artery Disease

9

(6)

Myocardial Infarction

15

(5)

Heart Failure

20

(7)

Bradyarrhythmias

27

(4)

Tachyarrhythmias

31

(6)

Hypertension

37

(4)

Valvular Heart Disease

41

(6)

Cardiovascular Disease

47

(4)

Syncope

51

(4)

Part II Respiratory

55

(34)

Dyspnea

57

(4)

Cough

61

(3)

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

64

(4)

Asthma

68

(5)

Pulmonary Embolism

73

(4)

Interstitial Lung Disease

77

(5)

Pleural Effusions

82

(3)

Lung Cancer

85

(4)

Part III Renal

89

(26)

Acid-Base Disturbances

91

(4)

Fluid and Electrolytes

95

(4)

Acute Renal Failure

99

(4)

Chronic Renal Failure

103

(3)

Glomerular Disease

106

(3)

Nephrolithiasis

109

(3)

Hematuria

112

(3)

Part IV Infectious Diseases

115

(48)

Fever and Rash

117

(4)

Pneumonia

121

(6)

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

127

(6)

Urinary Tract Infections

133

(3)

Tuberculosis

136

(4)

Gastroenteritis

140

(5)

Infective Endocarditis

145

(4)

Meningitis

149

(3)

HIV Part I: Initial Care of the HIV-Infected Patient

152

(6)

HIV Part II: Prophylaxis and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV

158

(5)

Part V Gastrointestinal

163

(36)

Abdominal Pain

165

(4)

Diarrhea

169

(3)

Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastritis

172

(4)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

176

(4)

Hepatitis

180

(4)

Cirrhosis

184

(5)

Cholestatic Liver Disease

189

(3)

Pancreatitis

192

(3)

Colorectal Cancer

195

(4)

Part VI Endocrine

199

(34)

Weight Loss

201

(2)

Hyperthyroidism

203

(3)

Hypothyroidism

206

(3)

Diabetes Mellitus

209

(5)

Hypercalcemia

214

(3)

Diseases of the Adrenal Gland

217

(4)

Pituitary Disease

221

(4)

Nutritional Disorders

225

(5)

Hyperlipidemia

230

(3)

Part VII Rheumatology

233

(24)

Acute Monoarticular Arthritis

235

(3)

Low Back Pain

238

(3)

Rheumatoid Arthritis

241

(3)

Seronegative Spondyloarthropathies

244

(3)

Connective Tissue Diseases

247

(4)

Vasculitis

251

(3)

Amyloidosis

254

(3)

Part VIII Hematology/Oncology

257

(33)

Anemia

259

(5)

Hemolytic Anemia

264

(3)

Adenopathy

267

(2)

Bleeding Disorders

269

(4)

Breast Cancer

273

(4)

Prostate Cancer

277

(3)

Leukemia and Lymphoma

280

(4)

Acute Complications of Cancer Therapy

284

(3)

Paraneoplastic Disorders

287

(3)

Questions

290

(16)

Answers

306

(13)

Index

319

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