Day 4 Flashcards
Antibodies in drug induced lupus
Anti-histone
Autoimmune hepatitis antibodies
Anti-smooth muscle antibodies
Marker of necrosis
Lactate dehydrogenase
Wegener’s granulomatosis autoantibodies
cANCA
Features of drug induced lupus
>arthralgia >myalgia >malar rash >pleurisy >ANA positive >dsDNA negative >anti-histone antibodies in 80-90%
Most common causes of drug induced lupus
Procainamide
Hydralazine
Less common drug causes of drug induced lupus
Isoniazid
Minocycline
Phenytoin
What is plagiocephaly
Parallellogram shaped head
What is craniosynostosis
Premature fusion of skull bones
What will autoimmune hepatitis show in LFTs
raised ALT/AST on LFTs
Antimitochondrial antibody
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Types of autoimmune hepatitis
Type 1
- ANA and/or SMA
- children and adults
Type 2
- anti-liver/kidney microsomal type 1
- children only
Type 3
- soluble liver-kidney antigen
- affects adults in middle-age
Management of autoimmune hepatitis
Steroids, immunosuppressants e.g. azathioprine
Liver transplantation
URTI symptoms + amoxicillin -> rash
Glandular fever
(EBV)
Haemorrhage 5-10 days after tonsilectomy
Wound infection, IV antibiotics
Worsening flu like symptoms + dry cough + erythema multiforme
mycoplasma pneumonia
left homonymous hemianopia with some macula sparing
right occipital cortex
family history of early blindness is concerned that he is developing ‘tunnel vision’
retina
A 3-year-old boy is referred to the clinic with a scrotal swelling. On examination the mass does not transilluminate and it is impossible to palpate normal cord above it.
indirect inguinal hernia
Use of 0.9% Sodium Chloride for fluid therapy in patients requiring large volumes
hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis
Risk factors for graft versus host disease
- volume and age of transfused blood
- depressed immune function. E.G. hodgkin
- similar HLA haplotype sharing
adult patients with hydrocele management
ultrasound
treatment of primary herpes infections
oral antiviral therapy
Area most affected in ischaemic colitis
splenic flexure