Results for “cardiomyopathy”

A 7-day-old breastfed girl is admitted with a two-day history of poor feeding and vomiting. She is deeply jaundiced, lethargic and hypothermic, with a liver edg…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A term girl weighing 2.6 kg is examined before discharge. The backs of both hands and both feet are puffy and doughy, and there is loose redundant skin over the…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 15-year-old boy is being cleared to play club rugby. He has never had chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness out of proportion to exertion or blackouts, and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 16-year-old netballer attends for a pre-participation examination. She is asymptomatic. The femoral pulses are strong and synchronous with the radial pulses.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 16-year-old girl asks you to sign a clearance form for state-level netball. Twice this year she has collapsed without warning, once in the third quarter of a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A 15-year-old boy attends for clearance to play first-grade school football. He has never had chest pain or blackouts and keeps up with the fittest boys at trai…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old man with schizophrenia has been taking clozapine for 17 days, titrated to 250 mg daily after two other antipsychotics failed. He reports three day…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 23-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia started clozapine eighteen days ago and now takes 250 mg daily. He tells the nurse he feels as though h…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 46-year-old man with schizophrenia has taken clozapine 400 mg daily for four years without a dose change. Over the past ten days he has become drowsy in the a…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia is on day 18 of clozapine, now 250 mg at night. He is febrile at 38.4 degrees Celsius with a pulse of 1…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 7-month-old infant becomes lethargic after an overnight fast during gastroenteritis. Blood glucose is 1.9 mmol/L (reference 3.5–6.0 mmol/L), beta-hydroxybutyr…

Biomedical Science · Foundations · niche

A 66-year-old man with ischaemic cardiomyopathy attends for review. Echocardiography shows a left ventricular ejection fraction of 30%, and he remains breathles…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 76-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after losing consciousness while pushing his lawnmower up a slope. His wife reports he went pale and co…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 71-year-old man presents with headache, blurred vision and spontaneous bruising. Blood tests show haemoglobin 86 g/L (reference range 130–170), total protein…

Haematology and Oncology · Clinical rotations · common