CPSP IMM Medicine MCQs

Type II error is failing to reject a false null hypothesis.

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory arthritis typically affecting small joints symmetrically.

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem autoimmune disease associated with diverse autoantibodies and organ involvement.

Pulmonary embolism is obstruction of pulmonary arteries, commonly by thrombus originating in deep veins.

Anaphylaxis is a rapid severe systemic hypersensitivity reaction that may compromise airway, breathing or circulation.

Acute coronary syndrome is a clinical spectrum caused by acute myocardial ischaemia, including unstable angina and myocardial infarction.

Heart failure is a syndrome in which the heart cannot meet metabolic demands or does so only at elevated filling pressures.

Atrial fibrillation is a supraventricular arrhythmia with disorganised atrial activity and an irregularly irregular pulse.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disorder with variable and usually reversible airflow obstruction.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is persistent airflow limitation commonly related to smoking or noxious exposure.

Megaloblastic anaemia is a macrocytic anaemia caused by impaired DNA synthesis, often from folate or vitamin B12 deficiency.