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MKSAP Quiz: A new diagnosis of anemia
A 65-year-old woman is reevaluated following an initial evaluation for anemia. Other than a gradually increasing sense of fatigue, she has no symptoms. Her only other medical problem is autoimmune thyroid disease. What is the most appropriate diagnostic test to perform next?
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/03/27/4.htm
27 Mar 2020
MKSAP Quiz: A 1-month history of bloody diarrhea
A 25-year-old woman is evaluated for a 1-month history of intermittent, loose, bloody bowel movements associated with pain in the left lower quadrant before defecation. She reports no fever, chills, night sweats, arthralgia, eye pain, or rash. What is the most likely diagnosis?
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/04/24/4.htm
24 Apr 2020
MKSAP Quiz: Follow-up after colon cancer
A 37-year-old man is evaluated during a follow-up appointment after resection of a well-differentiated adenocarcinoma of the ascending colon. His family history is significant for endometrial cancer in his mother and colon cancer in his maternal grandfather. What is the most appropriate next step in management?
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/05/22/4.htm
22 May 2020
MKSAP Quiz: A patient hospitalized with fever and rigors
A 48-year-old man with primary sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative colitis presents to the hospital with fever, rigors, right-upper-quadrant pain, and leukocytosis. Blood cultures are pending. After giving IV saline and IV piperacillin-tazobactam, which next test is most appropriate?
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/06/26/4.htm
26 Jun 2020
MKSAP Quiz: Worsening abdominal pain
A 26-year-old woman with Crohn disease is evaluated for a 2-week history of worsening abdominal pain. The patient has required three courses of prednisone for disease flares over the past year. Her only medication is azathioprine. What is the most appropriate treatment?
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/07/24/4.htm
24 Jul 2020
MKSAP Quiz: Hospitalization for sudden-onset, cramping abdominal pain
This month's quiz asks readers to determine appropriate testing for a 60-year-old woman admitted to the hospital with sudden-onset, cramping abdominal pain of moderate severity in the right lower quadrant.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/08/28/4.htm
28 Aug 2020
MKSAP Quiz: A 14-month history of diarrhea
This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most appropriate treatment for a 63-year-old woman with normal colonoscopy results who reports diarrhea multiple times per day, urge fecal incontinence, and nocturnal diarrhea.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/09/25/4.htm
25 Sep 2020
MKSAP Quiz: Management of gallstone disease
This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most appropriate course of management for a 65-year-old man with multiple gallstones found on ultrasonography screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/23/4.htm
23 Oct 2020
MKSAP Quiz: Treatment of diarrhea and abdominal pain
This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most appropriate treatment for a 35-year-old man with a one-year history of diarrhea and abdominal cramping and bloating.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/11/20/4.htm
20 Nov 2020
MKSAP Quiz: A 2-month history of diarrhea, cramps
This month's quiz asks readers to determine the most likely diagnosis for a 26-year-old woman who presents with a history of diarrhea characterized by two to three semibloody stools per day associated with cramping lower abdominal pain.
https://gastroenterology.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/18/4.htm
18 Dec 2020