12/22/12

Question 1

What Sx would be present in Neimann-Pick disease but not Tay-Sachs?

Answer 1

hepatosplenomegaly and cervical lymphadenopathy

Question 2

What are the 5 major Jones criteria for rheumatic fever?

Answer 2

polyarthritis
carditis
chorea
subcutaneous nodules
erythema marginatum

Question 3

What is the Tx for rheumatic fever?

Answer 3

benzathine penicillin G

Question 4

What is the Tx for mycoplasma?

Answer 4

erythroMYcin

Question 5

What are the 3 most common causes of neonatal meningitis in order?

Answer 5

1. GBS
2. E. coli
3. Listeria

Question 6

What 2 drugs may be used to treat nocturnal enuresis?

Answer 6

DDAVP (desmopressin) or imipramine (a TCA)

Question 7

What vitamin is useful in measles? Why?

Answer 7

Vit. A. Immune enhancement and helps regeneration of respi and GI epithelia.

Question 8

Diffuse thickening of the glomerular BM and subepithelial spikes are characteristic for what type of nephrotic syndrome?

Answer 8

membranous glomerulonephritis

Question 9

What should be suspected in an infant that appears normal at birth but gradually develops apathy, weakness, hypotonia, large tongue, sluggish movement, abd. bloating, and an umbilical hernia?

Answer 9

congenital hypothyroidism

Question 10

Where do most medulloblastomas develop?

Answer 10

cerebellar vermis

Question 11

What would be the most obvious manifestation of posterior vermis syndrome?

Answer 11

truncal ataxia

Question 12

What syndrome is characterized by precocious puberty, cafe-au-lait spots, and multiple bone defects (polyostotic fibrous dysplasia)?

Answer 12

McCune-Albright syndrome

Question 13

What are the 3 P’s of McCune_Albright sundrome?

Answer 13

Precocious puberty, pigmentation (cafe-au-lait spots), and polyostotic fibrous dysplasia