Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 (8th Edition)

真哪噠跨界出版鉅獻 台灣孩子成為美國醫師 美國醫師執照USMLE考試最強教戰守策 AMAZON 網站同類書籍最高評級與評語 1. 本書收集了最新、最全面、最豐富的臨床急診知識。 2. 對 USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3中經常測試的大多數疾病和病症進行系統、全面和簡明的回顧。 3. 內容條理清晰，格式易於記憶。800道USMLE格式的臨床問題，155張臨床彩色圖像，附帶簡要的診斷特徵，幫助你更深入地消化和記憶相關的基礎臨床知識。 徹底消化這本書，使用 UWorld.com 和 NBME.org 上最好的 Q-bank 自我評估進行練習，並做筆記，您就可以高分擊敗 USMLE Step 2 CK 和 Step 3，獲得 USMLE 和 ECFMG 的門票！ 本書亦可成為美國和世界各地醫學院教育的強大學習輔助工具。 序 Preface This new edition of “Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK & Step 3” has been continuously updated from the previous editions. According to the large volume of feedbacks on Amazon and to our author team from medical students and doctors in the US and around the world, this book has collected the most up-to-date, comprehensive, and high-yield clinical knowledge (CK) for the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 as the best-rated one in the USMLE market. This book can be the equivalent of “First Aid for the USMLE Step 1” for the USMLE Step 2 CK. Important features of this book include: 1. Systematic, comprehensive, and concise reviews of most diseases and disorders that are frequently tested in the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3. They are composed of important concepts, etiologies, essentials of diagnoses, differential diagnoses, treatments, and preventive measures. 2. Well-organized contents in easy-to-remember formats, abbreviations, and more than 100 tables and figures with summaries and differential diagnoses, and with necessary details of high-yield “orderly steps” in the diagnosis and management of major diseases. Most important clinical points are in “PEARLS”, underlined, and bolded as priority contents. 3. 800 high-yield clinical questions in USMLE format to help you digest the fundamental knowledge. 4. 155 high-yield clinical color images with brief diagnostic features (in the back of book to cut cost) for deeper digestion and memory of the associated fundamental clinical knowledge. After thorough digestion of this book followed by practice with the best Q-bank on UWorld.com and NBME.org Self-Assessments, with note-taking, you are ready to crush the USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 with high scores! This book is your ticket to the USMLE and ECFMG Certification! It can also be a powerful study aid in medical school education in the US and around the world. The author’s team takes all feedbacks and corrections positively and thankfully with rewards and maintains frequent updates to make it better and better for the USMLE clinical knowledge. Best wishes to all who appreciate this book! Yale Gong, MD Washington, D.C. *www.usmle.org: “USMLE Step 3: Examinees are seeing increased numbers of items that assess an expanded range of competency-based content, including foundational science essential for effective healthcare; biostatistics, epidemiology, and population health; literature interpretation; medical ethics; and patient safety.” 作者簡介 貢雲華，醫學博士，碩士，持有美國醫師執照考試（USMLE） 證書及美國醫學博士資格。為美國神經與臨床科學家，擔任科學顧問近30年，曾任聯邦軍醫大學（USUHS）神經內科助理教授、賓夕法尼亞大學醫學院神經內科資深研究員、聯邦醫學研究與發展指揮部科學顧問。 Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 （臨床醫學精華） 第八版是集其十年心血之作，主要基於美國醫學界權威的美國醫師執照考試委員會的要求和Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment等內容，第七版在同類書中獲得AMAZON 的最高評級與評語 （https://www.amazon.com/Yale-G-First-Aid-Crush-USMLE/dp/1637957580）。 本書堪稱全球醫學生畢業與執照考試的最佳工具書之一。 Yale Gong, MD, MS, USMLE-Certified, has been an Assistant Professor of Neurology in USUHS, Senior Research Investigator in the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Neuroscientist, Clinical Scientist, and Army Scientific Advisor for the past 30 years in the US. The latest 8th edition of Yale-G First Aid: Crush USMLE Step 2 CK and Step 3 under publication is the intelligent fruits after the author’s ten years of persistent efforts, based on the requirements of USMLE.org and authoritative Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, etc. The 7th edition has gained the best rating and reader’s reviews among all similar books on amazon.com. This book can be one of the best tool books for all medical students’ graduating and licensing examinations around the world! 目錄 Table of Contents Chapter 1: INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Suggested range according to usmle.org: 7-8%) 1 PEARLS—High-yield Applications of Antibiotics 1 EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT INFECTIONS 5 RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS 10 INFECTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) 19 GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT INFECTIONS 23 VIRAL HEPATITIS 25 UROGENITAL INFECTIONS AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 30 UROGENITAL INFECTIONS 30 SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES (STD) 33 OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS (OIs) 40 BLOOD INFECTIONS AND RELATED DISEASES 42 BONE, JOINT AND MUSCLE INFECTIONS 46 ARTHROPOD-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS 49 Chapter 1: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 54 Chapter 2: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES (Suggested range: 10-11%) 71 CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS 72 ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE (IHD)—CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (CAD) 75 DYSLIPIDEMIA 88 SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION 90 PULMONARY HEART DISEASE 94 ENDOCARDIAL AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95 VALVULAR HEART DISEASES 95 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES 104 MYOCARDIAL DISEASES 111 PERICARDIAL DISEASES 115 VASCULAR DISEASES 119 Chapter 2: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 122 Chapter 3: RESPIRATORY DISEASES (Suggested range: 7-8%) 134 GAS EXCHANGE DISORDERS AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE 135 OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASES 137 RESTRICTIVE AND INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES 143 ALVEOLAR FILLING DISEASES 148 DISEASES OF THE PULMONARY VASCULATURE 150 PLEURAL DISEASES 153 NEOPLASMS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT 154 MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 157 Chapter 3: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 158 Chapter 4: DIGESTIVE AND NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 166 DISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS 166 DISEASES OF THE STOMACH AND DUODENUM 173 DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS 178 DISEASES OF THE GALLBLADDER 181 DISORDERS OF THE LIVER 185 GENETIC BILIRUBINEMIA 192 DISORDERS OF THE INTESTINE 193 INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBD) 197 NEOPLASMS OF THE INTESTINE 201 HEMORRHAGE OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT 203 MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 205 NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE AND DISORDERS 208 Chapter 4: High-yield Questions (YHQ) 215 Chapter 5: ENDOCRINOLOGY (Suggested range: 7-8%) 223 DISORDERS OF GLUCOSE AND FAT METABOLISM 223 PITUITARY AND HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES 228 DISORDERS OF THE ANTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 229 DISORDERS OF THE POSTERIOR PITUITARY LOBE 232 DISEASES OF THE THYROID 234 DISORDERS OF THE PARATHYROID GLANDS 242 DISORDERS OF THE ADRENAL GLAND 245 HYPOGONADISM 250 Chapter 5: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 252 Chapter 6: HEMATOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGIC DISORDERS (Suggested range: 9-10%) 259 ANEMIAS 259 NEUTROPENIA (LEUKOPENIA) 270 COAGULOPATHY 271 PLATELET DISORDERS 275 HEMATOPOIETIC NEOPLASMS 276 MYELOID NEOPLASMS 282 MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS (MPNs) 283 PLASMA CELL DISORDERS 289 IMMUNOLOGIC DISEASES 292 ALLERGIC DISEASES 292 PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS 293 TRANSPLANTATION MEDICINE 297 Chapter 6: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 298 Chapter 7: RENAL, UROGENITAL, ACID-BASE, AND ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS (Suggested range: 8-9%) 307 ACID-BASE DISORDER 307 TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASES 308 GLOMERULAR DISEASES 311 ELECTROLYTE DISORDERS 316 NEPHROLITHIASIS 320 RENAL CYSTIC DESEASES 321 UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS 322 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS 328 Chapter 7: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 330 Chapter 8: MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES (Suggested range: 8-9%) 338 ARTHRITIS 339 DEGENERATIVE AND CRYSTAL-INDUCED ARTHRITIS 339 SERONEGATIVE ARTHRITIS 342 AUTOIMMUNE CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES 343 VASCULITIS SYNDROMES 349 PAIN SYNDROMES 355 SPORTS MEDICINE — SPORTS INJURIES 363 MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES 366 ORTHOPEDIC NEOPLASMS 369 Chapter 8: High-yield Questions (HYQ) 372 Chapter 9: NEUROLOGY AND SPECIAL SENSES (Suggested range: 9-10%) 380 NEUROLOGICAL TRAUMA AND INJURY 380 HEAD TRAUMA AND BRAIN INJURY 380 SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) 382 CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES (STROKE) 385 ISCHEMIC STROKE 385 HEMORRHAGIC STROKE 388 EPILEPSY AND SEIZURE DISORDERS 390 HEADACHE 393 NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS 394 CENTRAL NERVOUS MYELINOPATHIES 400