Crack Medicine: High Yield Topics for FMGE

I. HEMATOLOGY

1. DIC: Mechanism, Factors
2. Dialysis
3. Thalassemia
4. V.W. Disease
5. Hemolytic Anemia
6. Fresh Frozen Plasma & its Usage
7. Coagulation Pathway(Intrinsic & Extrinsic), APTT, PTT etc
8. Characteristic bodies & cells seen in specific diseases: Negri bodies, Russel bodies etc

II. CARDIOLOGY

1. JVP: Different waves, significance, Findings in AF, MI etc
2. ECG: Basics, all about MI, Hypo & Hyperkalemia, ST elevation etc
3. Murmur & Heart sounds: Named Murmurs, classification of Murmur , mechanisms of Heart sounds, Pathological heart sounds
4. HCM
5. Kussmaul’s sign
6. Pulses

III. RENAL MEDICINE

1. Diabetic Nephropathy
2. Nephrotic & Nephritic Syndrome
3. Renal Cell Carcinoma
4. CRF
5. IOC

IV. GIT

1. Carcinoid Syndrome
2. Hepatitis A to E
3. PUD & Different Ulcers
4. GERD
5. GI Bleeding

( Markers & their significance of Hepatitis A to E)

V. ENDOCRINOLOGY

1. Diabetes: Pathogenesis, types, symptoms, signs, complications, treatment, prognosis, Insulin preparations, Side effects of Hypoglycemic drugs, Routes of Admin
2. Pheochromocytoma
3. Thyroidism: types, Pathogenesis, Treatment
4. Cushing’s syndrome

VI. METABOLIC IMBALANCES

1. Zinc deficiency
2. Anion gap
3. Hypo & Hypernatremia, Central Pontine Myelinolysis
4. Calcium metabolism: PTH, Calcitonin, Vitamin D

VII. NEUROLOGY

1. Myesthenia gravis: Dx, Treatment
2. Lambert – Eaton’s disease
3. Meningitis
4. CSF features in Tubercular & Viral Meningitis

VIII. INFECTIOUS DISEASES

1. TB: Screening & Treatment regimen
2. Malaria: G6PD, Primaquine, Artimisinine, Combination therapy, Chloroquine resistant Malaria
3. AIDS: Pathology, Stages, Prevention, Treatment, Prognosis, Secondary infections, Cancers in HIV Patients

IX. HEMORRHAGES

1. Clinical features & Affected v/ a in the following Hemorrhages:
   Subarachnoid Hge, Pontine Hge, Thalamic Hge
   Treatment, Prognosis

X. RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

1. Pneumonia: all, mcc
2. Lung Cancer: all, SCLC
3. Asthma: Dx, Stages, Treatment
4. COPD
5. Respiratory Failure

XI. MISCELLANEOUS

1. Neurosyphilis
2. GB Syndrome: MC Cranial n involved

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