Medical Council of Canada MCCQE Part 1 Exam MCCQE Question # 62 Topic 7 Discussion

Medical Council of Canada MCCQE Part 1 Exam MCCQE Question # 62 Topic 7 Discussion

MCCQE Exam Topic 7 Question 62 Discussion:
Question #: 62
Topic #: 7

An 18-year-old woman presents to the Emergency Department with a 3-day history of vomiting and right upper quadrant pain. She is alert but appears unwell and jaundiced. She was previously healthy and has not travelled recently. She has no risk factors for blood-borne pathogens. She denies hematemesis or hematochezia. On further history, she reports that she took a full bottle of pills that she found in her parents’ medicine cabinet several hours before she started vomiting. Without intervention, which one of the following is the most likely outcome?


A.

Status epilepticus


B.

Acute renal failure


C.

Rapid-onset cerebral edema


D.

Fulminant hepatic failure


E.

Ventricular fibrillation


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