Deck 3 Flashcards
What medications cause facial flushing, n/v, and headaches after ethanol consumption?
Metronidazole “disulfiram like reaction”
Disulfiram
Inhibit acetaldehyde dehydrogenase and causes accumulation of acetaldehyde
What is the most sensitive method for determining pregnancy?
Serum B-hcG
What day after fertilization can you detect serum B-hcG? Urine B-hcG?
Day 8 (day 6 = implantation) Urine B-hcG at 14 days
Symptoms for stroke in anterior cerebral artery?
contralateral sensory and motor deficits in lower limbs, urinary incontinence, behavioral changes
Symptoms of stroke in MCA?
Contralateral sensory and motor deficits in face, hands, arms, Broca’s aphasia, spacial neglect (parietal lobe), conjugate gaze toward the side of the stroke
What is cutaneous small vessel vasculitis? How do you get it?
Vasculitis only affecting skin causing nonblanching palpable purpura
Use of medications like penicillin, cephalosporin, allopurinol
Perivascular inflammation of small vessels with fibrinoid necrosis and neutrophil predominance
Where is resistance greatest in airways?
Medium sized bronchi and segmental bronchi (generations 2-5) due to turbulent airflow
MOA terbinafine?
Inhibits squalene epoxidase and inhibits synthesis of ergosterol for cell membrane
What antifungals bind ergosterol?
Ampho B and nystatin
Which antifungals blocks B-D-glucan?
Echinocandins (caspofungin) inhibit cell wall synthesis
Which antifungals disrupt microtubule mitotic spindle?
Griseofulvin
How does flucytosine work?
Antimetabolite antifungal transormed into 5-FU. Replaces uracil with 5-FU. Used for systemic infections
What are CAAT and TATA sequences?
Promotors for DNA transcription and RNA polymerase II binding site
Why does PAH excretion levels plateau?
Due to carrier protein saturation
MOA ezetimibe?
Decreases intestinal cholesterol absorption, decreasing level of cholesterol in liver, liver then compensates by increasing LDL and drawing cholesterol out of circulation
What do hemosiderin-laden macrophages in lung interstitium indicate?
Chronic pulmonary hypertension and congestion. Often secondary to CHF, transudative material and RBC leak into air spaces and cause pulmonary edema