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Test your infectious disease knowledge with JAMA Network challenges

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Timothy M. Smith

Contributing News Writer

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CME from the JAMA Network also enables you to earn AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit™ from a source you trust. The AMA has added lessons for many of the most common specialty health topics.

The infectious disease category helps learners correctly diagnose and treat unusual presentations of rat bite fever, Lyme disease, syphilis and more. Its eight-lesson online series covers the following topics:

  1. “Bilateral Hemorrhagic Optic Disc Edema in a Middle-Aged Man.”

    1. A 49-year-old man with a history of diabetes, hypertension, intravenous drug abuse and multiple sexual partners presented to the emergency department with painless vision loss in both eyes for 10 days, left eye worse than right eye, and photophobia in both eyes. What is your diagnosis?

  2. “Severe Polyarthralgia After Kidney Transplant.”

    1. A 51-year-old woman presented with a one-month history of intense and worsening polyarthralgia and swelling of bilateral fingers and toes. What would you do next?

  3. “A Retinal Detachment After International Travel.”

    1. A 58-year-old man was referred for evaluation of a retinal detachment in his left eye. His visual acuity on presentation was 20/20 in the right eye and hand motion only in the left eye. What is your diagnosis?

  4. “Bilateral Hypopyon in a Patient With Glaucoma.”

    1. A 72-year-old woman presented with new-onset decreased vision in the right eye. Her ocular history included pseudoexfoliation syndrome and glaucomatous optic neuropathy in the right eye. What is your diagnosis?

  5. “Retinal Artery Occlusion After a Dog Bite in a 55-Year-Old Man.”

    1. A 55-year-old man was referred to the eye clinic for unilateral uveitis and two days of sudden vision loss in his right eye. He reported experiencing light sensitivity and mild eye pain. What would you do next?

  6. “Headache, Confusion and Somnolence in a 27-Year-Old Woman.”

    1. A previously healthy 27-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with two weeks of headache, photophobia, vomiting and confusion. What is your diagnosis?

  7. “A Woman With Intraocular Inflammation After Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty.”

    1. An 81-year-old woman with systemic hypertension and atrial fibrillation underwent Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty for visual acuity of counting fingers because of postphacoemulsification bullous keratopathy with no prior episodes of inflammatory eye disease. Her best-corrected visual acuity improved to 20/40 two weeks later, limited because of a preexisting corneal scar. What is your diagnosis?

  8. “A Treatment-Refractory, Perianal Tumor Arising in an Otherwise Healthy Older Adult Woman.”

    1. A woman in her 80s presented with an eight-month history of a growing, painful tumor on her right buttock. The patient felt well otherwise and denied experiencing fevers, chills, sweats, weight loss or malaise. What is your diagnosis?

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