ch.17 Flashcards
What causes Jaundice?
What does it present as?
What body parts have affinity for bilirubin?
Excess bilirubin in the blood.
Yellow eyes, skin.
Elastin fibers.
What is amyloidosis?
What are the systemic (primary and secondary) people that get amyloidosis?
What stain can it be seen with?
deposition of protein called amyloid.
Primary: multiple myelomas present Secondary: hemodialysis patients.
Congo Red Stain.
What does Vitamin A deficiency lead to?
What’s it AKA?
Blindness.
Retinol.
What is Vit B1 essential for?
What does deficiency cause?
What’s it AKA?
Proper neuron functioning.
Beriberi.
Thiamin.
What does Iron deficiency Anemia cause?
What are the lab findings?
What’s a syndrome associated with it?
Angular Cheilitis, Atrophic glossitis (bald tongue)
Hypochromic Microcytic RBC’s.
Plummer Vinson Syndrome.
What’s the triad for Plummer vinson syndrome?
What’s significant about this syndrome?
iron deficient anemia, Glossitis, Dysphagia.
Higher likelihood for oral and esophageal SCC.
What does pernicious anemia present as orally?
What causes it?
Beefy Atrophic glossitis.
Malabsorption of Vit B12.
If you have increased production of growth hormone before growth plate closure what do you get?
What happens if it’s after plate closure?
Gigantism and macrodontia before closure.
Acromegaly after closure.
In hypothyroidism what’s the difference between Cretinism and Myxedema?
Cretinism: infancy
Myxedema: adulthood
What do poorly controlled diabetics get in the mouth with fungal infections?
Mucormycosis.
What 2 things does Crohns disease present as in the mouth?
What age does it start?
Linear ulcer in the buccal vestibule and Cobblestone looking things.
Teenagers.
What does neurofibromatosis type 2 present as?
Bilateral acoustic (ear) schwanomma.
Vit B2 AKA?
Needed for?
Riboflavin.
Oxidation-Reduction rxn in cells.
Vit B3 AKA?
Needed for?
What is Pellegra (3 D’s)
Niacin.
Coenzyme for oxidation-reduction.
Pellegra: Dermatitis, dementia, diarrhea.
Vit B6 aka?
Used for?
Pyridoxine.
Amino Acid synthesis.
