IDBR Infectious Disease Board Review
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Blood culture negative endocarditis - Trip Gulick, MD/ John Bennett, MD
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 43-year-old man is admitted with acute onset of right sided hemiplegia and dysarthria. He had been in excellent health until one month previously wh...
Preventing HIV with antiretrovirals - Trip Gulick, MD/ Trip Gulick, MD
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 58-year-old HIV- negative gay man is evaluated for PrEP. His past medical history is notable for hypertension, treated for over 10 years with an ACE...
Stopping PJP prophylaxis in HIV - Trip Gulick, MD/ Michael Saag, MD
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 44-year-old man was diagnosed with Pneumocystis pneumonia as his AIDS-defining illness and begun on antiretroviral therapy with 2 nucleosides and an...
Which antiretroviral with rifampin? - Trip Gulick, MD/ Frank Maldarelli, MD
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 29-year-old man living with HIV on tenofovir alafenamide (TAF)/emtricitabine + dolutegravir (CD4 298, HIV RNA <20 cps/ml) develops pulmonary TB. ...
Latent TB and renal transplantation - Trip Gulick, MD/ Susan Dorman, MD
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 56-year-old male with end-stage-renal disease due to hypertensive nephropathy is being evaluated for possible renal transplantation. Routine pre-tra...
Scedosporium pneumonia - Trip Gulick, MD/ John Bennett, MD
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 63-year-old male underwent allogeneic stem cell transplant for chronic myelogenous leukemia 120 days ago. He has had multiple episodes of acute graf...
Persistent low level HIV viremia - Trip Gulick, MD/ Michael Saag, MD
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 42-year-old woman newly diagnosed with HIV (CD4 425, HIV RNA 73,000, genotype with wild-type virus) starts tenofovir alafenamide/emtricitabine/bicte...
Gaining weight on antiretrovirals - Trip Gulick, MD/ Michael Saag, MD
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 36-year-old obese white man (BMI 34) recently diagnosed with HIV (CD4 560, HIV RNA 52,000) is recommended to start antiretroviral therapy but is con...
A Person With HIV Who Presents with A Severe Sore Throat - Barbara D. Alexander, MD / Kevin Winthrop, MD
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 52-year-old woman with no prior medical conditions presents with a 6-month history of shortness of breath and cough. She has no fever, and her CBC a...
What Causes Tenosynovitis in a 62 Year Old Nurse? - Barbara D. Alexander, MD / Sandra B. Nelson, MD
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 62-year-old nurse presents to your clinic with a six-month history of pain and swelling involving her third finger. She has been treated sequentiall...
A Woman from Argentina with Heart Failure. - Barbara D. Alexander, MD / Edward Mitre, MD
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 47-year-old female grew up in an impoverished farming community in Argentina. She moved to the United States when she was 16 years of age. Three yea...
Where Did This Strange Mycobacteria Come From? - Barbara D. Alexander, MD / Kevin Winthrop, MD
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 62-year-old male was seen for low grade fever and weight loss over the past month. He had undergone aortic valve replacement in 2015 with a bioprost...
A confusing HIV serology - Trip Gulick, MD/ Frank Maldarelli, MD
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 37-year-old woman from New Jersey undergoes routine HIV testing with the following results: • HIV 4th generation test: Reactive (antibody positive...
Treating TB and HIV - Trip Gulick, MD/ Susan Dorman, MD
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 30-year-old female presents with a new diagnosis of smear-positive pulmonary TB. She is also found to have a new diagnosis of HIV. Labs show mild an...
Fever of unknown origin - Trip Gulick, MD/ Susan Dorman, MD
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 40-year-old female is admitted with a 3-week history of daily fever accompanied by a non-pruritic skin eruption. She was initially seen at a walk-in...
Evaluating risk of HIV - Trip Gulick, MD
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 62-year-old man with a history of hypertension has taken HIV PrEP with tenofovir DF/emtricitabine for 5 years. His baseline creatinine clearance was...
HIV / AIDS Bootcamp - Roy Gulick, MD, MPH
25 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This 52 minute session, called an HIV bootcamp, is taken from the extensive teaching material on the infectious disease board review website, availabl...
What To Do With An Unwanted Urine Culture - Paul Auwaerter, MD / Barbara W. Trautner, MD, PhD
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An 80-year-old resident of a nursing home has severe dementia, type 2 diabetes mellitus and a chronic indwelling Foley catheter which is in place to m...
A Disturbing Looking Foot - Camille Kotton, MD / John Bennett, MD
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 42-year-old male presents with a deformed foot and draining sinuses. The patient is a native of Mexico, where he does manual labor. He noted the ons...
A Food Borne Illness - Camille Kotton, MD / Herbert Dupont, MD
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two hours after eating at a hotel buffet in Hawaii, a 56-year-old man experiences abdominal pain, vomits once, and has one loose stool. Two days later...
A CNS Problem - Camille Kotton, MD / John Bennett, MD
27 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 31-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her husband for fever and neurological symptoms. She was completely well until 3 days e...
Welcome to IDBR
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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