Medicine & Allied Clinical Reasoning MCQs

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.

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

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

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

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.

Diabetic ketoacidosis is hyperglycaemia with ketonaemia and metabolic acidosis due to severe insulin deficiency.

Hypothyroidism is a state of deficient thyroid hormone action that may cause fatigue, weight gain and bradycardia.