Bones, Joints, and Soft Tissue Part 1 (Dr. Martin) Flashcards
What is the most common skeletal dysplasia and is a major cause of dwarfism?
Achondroplasia
What gene is mutated with achondroplasia?
What is the inheritance pattern?
1) FGFR3
2) AD
What is the most common lethal form of dwarfism?
Thanatophoric Dysplasia
What physical feature is noteworthy with achondroplasia?
With thanatophoric Dysplasia?
1) Normal trunk length
2) Small chest cavity
Osteoporosis or osteopetrosis involves what receptor?
LPR5 receptor
Decreases or absent osteoclasts is due to mutations in?
RANKL
What is the most common inherited disorder of connective tissue?
Type 1 Collagen Disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta
What are mutated with Type 1 Collagen Disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta?
What is the inheritance pattern?
1) α1 and α2 chains of type I collagen
2) AD
Which type of Osteogenesis Imperfecta has the worst prognosis in that it is uniformly fatal in utero?
Which has the best prognosis in which they live a normal life span?
1) Type II
2) Type I
What is the clinical presentation of Type I collagen disease?
1) Fractures during childhood that decrease at puberty
2) Blue sclera
3) Hearing loss
4) Brittle teeth
Type II collagen disease is frequently lethal at or shorty after birth often due to?
Respiratory problems
Osteopetrosis aka Marble Bone Disease is due to mutation in what gene that encodes proton pumps on surface of osteoclasts?
This causes what deficiency?
1) CLCN7
2) CA2 (carbonic anhydrase
Due to deficient osteoclast activity with osteopetrosis, what do bones lack?
The ends of long bones are bulbous which is known as?
1) Medullary canal
2) Erlenmeyer flask deformity
The severe infantile type of osteopetrosis has what inheritance pattern?
What cranial nerve deficits are noted?
1) AR
2) Optic atrophy, deafness, facial paralysis
Mucopolysaccharidoses are a group of lysosomal storage diseases which result in mucopolysaccharides from the extracellular matrix accumulating inside?
Chondrocytes
What differentiates osteopenia and osteoporosis?
1) Osteopenia is characterized by bone mass 1-2.5 SD below the mean
2) Osteoporosis is bone mass at least 2.5 SD below mean
Atraumatic or vertebral compression fractures signifies?
Osteoporosis
What are the most common forms of osteoporosis?
1) Senile
2) Postmenopausal
Osteoporosis in adolescents girls can occur due to insufficient intake of what?
Calcium
Postmenopausal osteoporosis is mostly due to what deficiency?
Estrogen deficiency
What is morphologically seen with osteoporosis?
Decreased quantity of trabecular bone
Postmenopausal osteoporosis affects bones with increased surface area such as?
Cancellous bones of vertebral bodies