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Aetiology Pathogenesis Flashcards

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What is Aetiology ?

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Cause of a disease

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What is Pathogenesis?

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Mechanisms causing the disease

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What is Pathological and clinical manifestations

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Structural and functional features, symptoms, signs

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What is Complications

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Secondary effect

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What is Prognosis

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Outcome of a disease

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What is Epidemiology

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The incidence, prevalence and population distribution of a disease

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What does Genetic Aetiology disease mean

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  • inherited
  • Acquired (during conception or embryogenesis, or during post-natal life)
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What are examples of Environmental Aetiology disease

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  • infectious agents: bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasite
  • Chemicals
  • Physical: radiation, mechanical trauma
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What are the 3 types of Aetiology?

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  • Genetic
  • Environmental
  • Multifactorial
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What is Multifactorial aetiology?

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  • Diseases due to a combination of causes
  • Proportionate risk of disease due to genetic or environmental factors
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What is unknown aetiology classified as?

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  • idiopathic, primary, essential, spontaneous, cryptogenic
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What are risk factor (aetiology)

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  • The aetiology of a disease is unknown, but the disease is observed in people with certain habits such as smoking, age, or occupations
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What is pathogenesis of a disease?

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  • The mechanism through which the aetiology (cause) operates to produce the pathological and clinical manifestations
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Name 3 examples of Pathogensis

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  • Inflammation
  • Degeneration
  • Carcinogenesis
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What is inflammation

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  • A RESPONSE to many micro-organisms and other harmful agents causing TISSUE INJURY
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What is degeneration

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A deterioration of cells or tissues in response to, or failure of adaptation to, a variety of agents

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What is Carcinogenesis

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The mechanism by which cancer-causing agents result in the development of tumours

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What are symptoms?

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What the patient suffers or patients complaints

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Name some common and specific symptoms

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-common: pain, fever, nausea
- specific: diarrhoea or constipation, skin rash

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What are signs of diseases?

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  • What the doctor is looking e.g. body temperature, blood pressure
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What is Syndrome?

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  • An aggregate of signs and symptoms or a combination of lesions without which the disease cannot be recognised or diagnosed
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What are Lesions?

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  • The structural or functional abnormality responsible for the ill health
  • e.g. Myocardial infraction, the infract or patch of dead heart muscle is the lesion
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What are complications?

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  • The prolonged, secondary or distant effects of a disease
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What is Progenosis?

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  • The anticipated outcome (forecasting the known or likely course) of a disease
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What is the purpose of Prognosis

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To plan appropriate treatment and to give useful information to individual patients

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What influences the prognosis of a certain disease?

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Influenced by medical or surgical intervention

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What is Epidemiology?

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  • Disease or pathology of the populations
  • Determination of causes, incidence, mortality, characteristic behaviour of disease outbreaks affecting human populations
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What is the morbidity of a disease?

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  • The disease state of an individual, or the incidence of illness in a population - The proportion of patients with a particular disease during a given year per given unit of population
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What is the Mortality of a disease?

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  • The probability that death will be the end result of that disease
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How is mortality expressed?

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Usually as a percentage of all the patients presenting with the disease

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What is Prevalence of a disease?

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The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time

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What is Prevalence different from morbidity?

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refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time

33
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Explain the Aetiology, pathogenesis, disease (structural and functional damage) and complications of lung cancer

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  • aetiology = smoking
  • Pathogenesis = genetic alteration (mutation)
  • Disease (structural and functional damage) = lung tumour
  • Complication = Metastases (secondary tumours)
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Explain the Aetiology, pathogenesis, disease (structural and functional damage) and complications of hypertension

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  • Aetiology = unclear
  • Pathogenesis = Increased renin production from kidneys
  • Disease = High blood pressure
  • Complication = Cerebral haemorrhage
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What are the 3 concepts of Epidemiology?

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  • Morbidity, mortality, prevalence

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