Update for the MRCP: Volume 1 » (REV)

Clinical Lecturer in Ageing and Health, Section of Ageing and Health, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and Royal Victoria Hospital, Dundee, UK

Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, UK

This is a book of self-assessment questions based on the current medical literature, with full references to recent papers and full explanatory answers. The questions are based on research papers and reflect the increasing importance of basic science in clinical medicine. The book contains useful appendices to assist candidates in their exam preparation. For the Second Edition the format of the questions will be a mixture of true/false multiple-choice questions, best of five questions and viva-style questions, thus making the book suitable not just for the new format of the MRCP Part 1 exam but also for the PACES clinical exam.

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Endocrinology
Acromegaly Thizolidinediones in diabetes Type 1 diabetes Thyroid function tests Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy Obesity Diabetes therapy Hypertension in diabetes Hypercortisolaemia The Barker hypothesis

Respiratory
Asthma Bronchial carcinoma Non-invasive ventilation Inflammation and asthma Obstructive sleep apnoea Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Primary pulmonary hypertension Community-acquired pneumonia Tuberculosis Pulmonary embolism

Dermatology
Psoriasis Pigmented lesions Management of psoriasis Eczema Pruritus Chronic venous ulceration

Clinical pharmacology
Angiotensin II receptor blockers Botulinum toxin Leptin Potassium Cocaine use Endothelial function Endothelin Complementary medicine Drugs and surgery Drugs of abuse Bupropion Oxidative stress and antioxidants COX II inhibitors Hypertension Acute mountain sickness

Psychiatry
Alcohol dependency St John's wort Chronic fatigue syndrome Delirium Nicotine addiction Psychosis Lithium toxicity Psychiatric drugs and weight gain Depression in older people Dementia

Miscellaneous
Visual impairment in older people Thyroid eye disease Sexually transmitted diseases Driving and the DVLA

Infectious diseases
Antibiotic resistance Influenza Lyme disease The systemic inflammatory response syndrome Microbes, cancer and chronic diseases Severe sepsis and protein C Viral infections in pregnancy Infection in the homeless and intravenous drug users Anthrax Arboviruses Meningococcal disease

Gastroenterology
Helicobacter pylori
Pancreatic cancer Microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis Genetics of inflammatory bowel disease Screening for colorectal cancer Oesophageal cancer Crohn's disease Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
Hepatitis C virus

Nephrology
Diabetic nephropathy Renal stones Anaemia in chronic renal failure Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease Renal vasculitis Treatment of early diabetic nephropathy Transplant failure Transplant immunosuppression Membranous glomerulonephritis Renal cell carcinoma

Genetics
Proteomics DNA microarrays The cell cycle

Immunology
Intravenous immune globulin Monoclonal antibodies Pathogenesis of autoimmune disease Immunotherapy for cancer Regulatory T cells Vaccine development

Cardiology
Aldosterone receptor blockade Cardiac resynchronisation therapy Statin therapy Clopidogrel Asymptomatic aortic stenosis Exercise training in chronic heart failure Treatment of ventricular tachycardia Drug-eluting stents Driving following loss of consciousness Vitamin E in arterial disease Genetics of dilated cardiomyopathy

Rheumatology
Rheumatoid arthritis Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Myositis Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Glucosamine Ankylosing spondylitis Gout Temporal arteritis Pseudogout Reactive arthritis

Epidemiology
Confounding Observational studies Homocysteine and ischaemic heart disease

Neurology
Paraneoplastic syndromes Inflammatory neuropathies Subarachnoid haemorrhage Epileptic seizures Genetics of neurological disease Multiple sclerosis Emergency neurology Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Parkinson's disease Reversible causes of dementia

Haematology
Blood transfusion Haemolytic-uraemic syndrome/thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura Deep venous thrombosis Thalassaemias Stem cell transplantation

Molecular biology
Biofilms Apoptosis Oxidative phosphorylation Selenium Angiogenesis Mechanisms of bone turnover Biology of the senses Channelopathies Antimicrobial peptides Molecular biology of hypoxia Hypocretin/orexin

Oncology
Therapy for malignant gliomas Estrogen and breast cancer Hypercalcaemia of malignancy Non-small cell lung cancer Second malignancy after chemotherapy and radiotherapy

References List of Abbreviations Index