Autoimmune Disease and HIV

Question 1

What dermal lesions are seen in dermatomyositis?

Answer 1

• helitrope erythema
• Gottron’s sign or papules
• photosensitivity
• poikiloderma
• periungual telangiectasia

Question 2

Gottron’s papules is pathognomonic for what?

Answer 2

dermatomyositis

Question 3

what is scleroderma?

Answer 3

excessive deposition of collagen (fibrosis) secondary to abnormal activation of the immune system due to unknown causes

Question 4

recall what is CREST syndrome.

Answer 4

calcinosis
Raynaud phenomenon
esophageal dysmotility
sclerodactyly
telangiectasia

Question 5

+ Nikolsky’s sign

+ acantholysis is indicative of what disease?

Answer 5

pemphigus vulgaris

Question 6

what is + nikolsky’s sign?

Answer 6

ability to produce a blister by rubbing skin adjacent to a natural blister

Question 7

what is + acantholysis?

Answer 7

loss of intercellular connections

Question 8

what is - nikolsky’s sign and - acantholysis indicative of?

Answer 8

pemphigoid group

Question 9

which blistering disease is associated with celiac disease?

Answer 9

Duhring’s disease (dermatitis herpetiforms)

Question 10

group blisters appearing on erythematous base is?

Answer 10

Duhring’s disease (dermatitis herpetiforms)

Question 11

name the infectious cutaneous disorders caused by staph aureus

Answer 11

bullous impetigo
ecthyma
folliculitis

Question 12

what is the causative organism of bacillary angiomatosis?

Answer 12

bartonella

Question 13

what derm manifestation also resembles pyogenic granulomas?

Answer 13

bacillary angiomatosis

Question 14

Kaposi’s sarcoma is caused by what virus?

Answer 14

HHV8

Question 15

kaposi’s sarcoma primarily affects what population (and I’m not talking about the immunocompromised)?

Answer 15

middle aged men of Mediterranean descent