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Further acute and chronic medicine

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  1. A 60-year-old man has a blood pressure of 210/130 mmHg, headache and papilloedema with retinal haemorrhages. What is the most appropriate management?
  2. A 45-year-old man with cirrhosis has fever, abdominal pain and a tense ascites. Ascitic fluid neutrophils are 400 per mm3. What is the diagnosis and treatment?
  3. A 72-year-old woman has a serum sodium of 118 mmol/L with confusion. She takes sertraline and bendroflumethiazide. Her urine osmolality is high and she is euvolaemic. Which cause is most likely?
  4. A 55-year-old woman has a corrected calcium of 3.1 mmol/L with polyuria and constipation. Her PTH is raised. What is the most likely cause?
  5. A 38-year-old man on carbamazepine has a new rash with fever and mucosal ulceration. Which condition is of concern?
  6. A 24-year-old man has sudden breathlessness and a hyperresonant right chest. He is 1.85 m tall with a pneumothorax rim of 3 cm and is moderately breathless. What is the usual management according to B…

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