This week's Med-Challenger free CME quiz - Anemia - covers the appropriate hemoglobin threshold for use of erythropoietin-stimulating agents, prescribing erythropoietin-stimulating agents to patients with chronic kidney disease receiving dialysis, parvovirus infection as an etiology of red cell dysplasia in an immunocompromised patient, and symptomatic anemia in patients with cancer.
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QQ230418: Pediatric Bacterial Infections
| 1st Place | MDPhotographer |
| 2nd Place | beachdoc1111 |
| 3rd Place | saul newman |
A 48-year-old man takes immunosuppressant medications following a kidney transplant for polycystic kidney disease.
He develops low-grade fever followed by a facial rash that eventually spreads to his extremities in a lacy, reticular pattern.
His joints ache, and he is fatigued.
He is found to be quite anemic, with a hemoglobin level of 7 g/dL. The anemia is normocytic and normochromic. Platelet and white blood cell counts are normal. His iron level is normal and his reticulocyte count is 1.5%. The result from the Coombs test is negative. Findings on bone marrow biopsy show giant proerythroblasts.
cytomegalovirus (CMV)
hepatitis A virus (HAV)
Epstein–Barr (EBV) virus
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