2013 Remembered Flashcards
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weight loss in CF despite improving FEV, no stool symptoms
Diabetes Mellitus
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child with longstanding history of respiratory disease
- ph 7.35
- pCO2 63
- HCO3 33
Type of acidosis/compensation
Respiratory acidosis with metabolic compensation
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hypoglycaema without ketosis, low insulin levels
- MCAD
- GH def
- cortisol deficiency
MCAD
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??diagnosis - fever, sore throat, rash with amoxycillin, LN, splenomegaly.
EBV or scarlett fever
EBV
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HPV vaccine covers all of these except –
- respiratoy papillomatosis
- penile cancer
- anal warts
- plantar warts
plantar warts (Molluscum contagiosum)
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Child with gastro illness and brief GTC seizure ?cause
- rotavirus
- campylobacter
- salmonella
rotavirus
- ranging from asymptomatic to severe dehydration, seizure and death
- immunization reduce the incidence of seizure.
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How does Fragile X premutation manifest in males?
- FXTAS
- Mental Retardation
- Infertility
FXTAS
- Premutation have 50-200 CGG repeats
- mental retardation gene remains transcriptionally active
- FXTAS (FX associated tremor ataxia syndrome) in the later age
- Classical FXS does not occur
- Premature ovarian insufficiency
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deafness most likely cause
- connexin 26
- CMV
- Usher
- Pendred
Connexin 26
Mutations in the GJB2 gene that encodes the protein connexin 26 (CX26) on chromosome 13 cause approximately half of all bilateral moderate-to-profound congenital hearing loss in nonsyndromic children
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mother father unaffected - three sons affected one daughter not which inheritance pattern – options including two possibilities each
- XL recessive/AD,
- XL recessive/AR
- AR/AD
- mitochondrial/XL dominant)
XL recessive/AR
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Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome in a boy, who is most likely to be affected
- maternal aunt
- paternal aunt
- brother
- father
- mother
X linked recessive pattern, brother is 50% chance of disease, aunty is 50% carrier
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genogram with affected males and females, non-affected female passes to children both male and female, male passes to female child
- AD with variable penetrance
- mitochondrial
- AR
- XLR
- XLD
AD with variable penetrance
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heteroplasmy due to
- number of mitochondria in cell
- wild mitochondria DNA
- Mixture of mitochondria containing mutant DNA and normal DNA
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Dysphagia, raynauds, calcinosis and telagiectasia and….?
- systemic sclerosis
- SLE
- idiopathic Raynauds
- vasculitis
Systemic sclerosis
CREST
Calcinosis, Raynauds, Eosophageal dysmotility, Scleroderma, Talengiactasia
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Pauciarticular JIA, partial response to ibuprofen
?next treatment
- intra-articular steroids
- systemic
- naproxen
- MTX
- infliximab
Intra-articular steroids (because pauciarticular, if polyarticular next line would be infliximab because too many joints to inject)
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Which drug increases half life of lamotrigine?
- sodium valproate
- carbamazepine
- phenytoin
Sodium Valproate
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Side effect of tacrolimus
- HTN
- hypokalaemia
- hypermagasemia
- hirsutism
- HTN
- neurotoxicity
- DM
- hyperkalaemia
- hypomagaemia
- hyperuricaemia
- alopecia
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Complication of diazoxide
- fluid overload and CCF,
- HTN
- dehydration
- DKA
fluid overload and CCF, mechanism unknown
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Non-diarrhoeal HUS caused by defect in??
- Complement dysregulaton accounts for most of the non-Shiga toxin producing E Coli cases of HUS.
- Complement gene mutation or antibody to complement factor B
- Family history present
- Infections: Shiga Toxin E Coli, Strep Pneumoniae, HIV
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Child with day time sleepiness, sometimes snores, asleep in class, difficult to rouse in morning, collapses when laughing
- narcolepsy
- OSA
- seizure disorder
Narcolepsy
Collapsing when laughing (or with extreme emotion) called cataplexy - specific to narcolepsy.
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absorption not affected by pancreatic insufficiency
- CHO
- fat
- protein
- vitamin a
CHO
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In DKA, what is the source of increased anions on a blood gas?
Ketones
Normal anion gap is 8-16
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15 mo elevated TSH, elevated T4, developmental delay
?cause
- resistance
- pituitary tumour
- ectopic thyroid
- Hashimotos
Resistance to TH:
High serum T3, free T3, T4 and free T4 within normal range or increase TSH.
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8yo not obese, no acanthosis with high HbA1c
Uncle/aunt have similar not obese
- MODY
- TI
- TII
MODY
Three Main Features of MODY are:
- Diabetes often develops before the age of 25
- Diabetes runs in families from one generation to the next
- Diabetes may be treated by diet or tablets and does not always need insulin treatment
Autosomal Dominant inheritance
Genes involved in 87% of MODY include:
- HNF1A (70% of cases-lowers amount of insulin secreted by pancreas, worsens with age)
- Glucokinase (glucose sensor for pancreas to secrete insulin in response to high glucose. Changes in this gene lead to a fasting glucose of 5.5-8mmol/L. Normal is around 5.5)
- HNF1B (including Renal Cysts and Diabetes (RCAD))
- HNF4A (switch to turn genes on and off. Acts by decreasing amount of insulin secreted by pancreas. Decreased insulin with increasing age)
- IPF1
- NEUROD1
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Teenager with heavy backpack - intact sensation but winging of the scapula.
Which nerve affected?
Long thoracic nerve affecting the latsimus dossi
Genogram with affected males and females, non-affected female passes to children both male and female, male passes to female child
A. AD with variable penetrance
B. mitochondrial
C. AR
D. XLR
E. XLD
A. AD with variable penetrance
Heteroplasmy due to
?number of mitochondria in cell
?wild mitochondria DNA
mixture of mitochondria containing mutant DNA and normal DNA
The occurrence in a single cell of more than one different population of mitochondrial DNA sequence.
Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis- which hormone is deficient?
- ADH/vasopressin
- renin
- GH
- TSH
- cortisol
ADH is low.
Diabetes insipidus is most frequent endocrine abnormality in LCH.
Multisystem disease is usually in younger children (<3yrs) and single organ disease in older children. Single organ in 55%.
5/52 with worsening positing and FTT, loose stools from birth - hypochloraemic hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis - most likely cause?
- pyloric stenosis
- congenital chloride losing diarrhea
- CF
- GORD
congenital chloride losing diarrhea
prominent forehead, jaundice (conjugated) systolic murmur ?cause
- peripheral PS
- AS
- MR
- supravalvular AS
peripheral PS (85%-90%)
Alagille syndrome — Alagille syndrome is characterized by the paucity of interlobular bile ducts and the following associated features:
●Chronic cholestasis (approximately 90 percent)
●Cardiac anomalies, most commonly peripheral pulmonic stenosis (85 to 91 percent)
●Butterfly vertebrae (39 to 87 percent)
●Posterior embryotoxon (prominent Schwalbe line) of the eye (61 to 88 percent)
●Dysmorphic facies, consisting of broad nasal bridge, triangular facies, and deep set eyes (77 to 95 percent)
Up to Date
Neonatal cooling for HIE…what temperature?
33.5 degrees
Cause of bradycardia in HIE ??
- cooling
- HIE
- hypoglycaemia
- CHB
HIE
Normal GGT with elevated conjugated bilirubin and cholestasis
- a1 antitrypsin
- choledochal cyst
- biliary atresia
- neonatal hepatitis
- progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
alpha 1 antitrypsin
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
- biliary atresia, a1 antitrypsin, neonatal hepatitis, choledochal cyst: elevated GGT
- PFIC types 1 and 2 normal or decreased GGT, type 3 increased GGT
CGH is limited in diagnosing turners in which situation?
- Mosaic turners
- Ring chromosome
- Short arm deletion
- Xp duplicate chromosome
Ans: mosaic turners
Array CGH cannot detect “balanced” chromosome rearrangements such as reciprocal translocations and inversions and polyploidy. However, ~40% of patients with apparently balanced de novo rearrangements and abnormal clinical phenotypes will have imbalances detected by arrays. Array CGH will also detect imbalances which are the unbalanced products of balanced parental rearrangements. The follow up studies are designed to confirm these. aCGH will not detect either mixtures of normal and abnormal cells (mosaicism) where the proportion of abnormal cells is < 30%, or triploidy, but both of these are extremely rare conditions and, if suspected, can be tested with other methods.
Metabolic alkalosis and HTN with high renin and normal electrolytes
- Liddle
- 11 beta hydroxylase def
- phaeochromocytoma
- Cushings
- renal artery stenosis
Ans: Renal Artery Stenosis
Liddle syndrome is a genetic disorder with increased function of collecting tubule sodium channel. Present young with triad of hypertension, hypokalemia and metabolic alkalosis. Low renin, low serum and urinary aldosterone.
Renal artery stenosis: In response to perceived low BP (distal to stenosis) sensed by granular cells of afferent arterioles, renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system activated leading to hypertension. Metabolic alkalosis due to ECF fluid changes (complex mechanims) (look for high renin, hypertension and normal electrolytes with metabolic alkalosis).
11 beta hydroxylase deficiency: 2nd most common cause of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Decreased cortisol production causing increased ACTH secretion. Subsequent adrenal stimulation leads to excessive production of adrenal androgens. Look for low renin, HTN, hypokalaemia
Cushings syndrome: ACTH-dependent cushing’s syndrome is most common cause of endogenous hypercortisolism. Low renin, low K+, alkalosis
Phaechromocytoma : tumoural hypersecretion of noradrenaline, adrenaline and dopamine. Classic symptom triad is episodic headache, sweating, and tachycardia usually accompanied by hypertension.