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32F, 3/12 hx: persistent low mood, anhedonia, poor sleep & appetite, reduced concentration. No psychotic features. Diagnosed with moderate depression.
What's the first-line pharmacological treatment?
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📊 ANSWER: SSRI (e.g. sertraline)
Key features: SSRIs are first-line for moderate-severe depression; other classes include SNRIs, TCAs & MAOIs, each with distinct mechanisms and side-effect profiles.
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68M, 6/12 hx: progressive breathlessness on exertion, orthopnoea, PND. O/E: bibasal crackles, pitting oedema to knees, raised JVP.
What's the diagnosis?
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📊 ANSWER: Heart Failure
Key features: reduced exercise tolerance, orthopnoea & PND (LHF), bibasal crackles (pulmonary oedema), peripheral oedema & raised JVP (RHF).
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34M, 3/12 hx: enlarging hands & feet, coarsening facial features, frontal bossing, increasing shoe size. Headaches, sweating, reduced libido.
What's the diagnosis?
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📊 ANSWER: Acromegaly
Key features: excess GH (usually pituitary adenoma), acral enlargement, coarsening of features, frontal bossing, headaches, sweating & hypopituitarism.
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35F: well-defined depigmented patches on hands & perioral skin. Symmetrical, non-scaly, asymptomatic. Slowly enlarging over 1 year.
What's the diagnosis? Answer below 👇
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22M, 6/12 hx: auditory hallucinations, ideas of reference, social withdrawal, flat affect. No substance use. Cognition intact.
What's the diagnosis?
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📊 ANSWER: Schizophrenia
Key features: ≥6 months of positive symptoms (hallucinations, delusions), negative symptoms (flat affect, withdrawal), no organic cause.
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You see a patient in your clinic with the following symptoms. What condition are you thinking of? What investigations would you order?
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