Biochemistry: DISEASES Flashcards
secondary structure defect of Alzheimer’s?
b-pleated sheet
amyloid
HBA1c cut off in pregnancy for diagnosis?
> 6.5%
HBA1c goal for non-pregnant
7%
diagnosis?
- cherry pink
- treatment: 100% oxygen
carboxyhemoglobin
diagnosis?
- chocolate cyanosis
- O2 sat of 85%
- oxidized form of hgb has increased affinity to cyanide
- treatment: methylene blue
methemoglobin
diagnosis?
- intrinsic defect of RBC
- mutation in ankyrin
- Jaundice, Anemia, Splenomegaly
- dx: osmotic fragility test
- tx: splenectomy
hereditary spherocytosis
diagnosis?
- glu –> valine
- anemia, painful crises, tissue anoxia
- protective against malaria
sickle cell disease
diagnosis?
- glu –> lysine
- mild hemolytic anemia
hemoglobin C disease
diagnosis?
- accumulation of Hb Bart, Hb F and b-chain precipitation
- readily appears at birth
Alpha Thalassemia (Chromosome 16)
diagnosis?
- accumulation of Hb Bart and a-chains
- appears at 6months
Beta Thalassemia (Chromosome 11)
manifested as Cooley Anemia
Beta Thalassemia
Collagen Defect? Ehler Danlos Syndrome
type 3
Collagen Defect? Alport Syndrome
type 4
Collagen Defect? osteogensis imperfecta
type 1
Collagen Defect? epidermolysis bullosa
type 7
diagnosis?
- copper deficiency
- kinky hair, growth retardation
menkes disease
diagnosis?
- hyperextensibility of skin
- abnormal tissue fragility
- increased joint mobility
- intracranial aneurysms - most serious manifestation
ehlers-danlos syndrome
diagnosis?
- hydroxylation of collagen
- vitamin C deficiency
scurvy
diagnosis?
- brittle bone syndrome
osteogenesis imperfecta
diagnosis?
- glomerular & cochlear BM manifestations:
HEMATURIA + HEARING LOSS
alport syndrome
diagnosis?
- skin that breaks and with blisters after minor trauma
epidermolysis bullosa
diagnosis?
- mutation in fibrillin gene; autosomal dominant
- aortic dilatation
- ectopia lentis (upward direction)
marfan syndrome
diagnosis?
- associated with panacinar emphysema
a-1 antitrypsin deficiency
diagnosis
- glucose 6 phosphatase deficiency
- hyperuricemia
von gierke disease
glycogen storage disease type 1a
liver phosphorylase deficiency
hers disease
glycogen storage disease type 6
PFK deficiency
Tarui disease
glycogen storage disease type 7