Deck 6 Flashcards
What meds for diabetes act on SGLT-2 receptors and what is the result? What lab do you need to check before admin?
What are some side effects?
- Canagliflozin and dapagliflozin
- Decr proximal tubule reabsorption of glucose via SGLT-2 transporter
- Check BUN/creatinine first
-SE: UTI and genital mycotic infections 2/2 glucosuria, HoTN from osmotic diuresis
What is the mechanism of digoxin toxicity leading to Vtach and death?
-Delayed after-depolarizations from high intracellular calcium
In an adult with nephrotic syndrome and a malignancy, suspect _______
membranous glomerulopathy
What are the histologic features of membranous glomerulopathy?
- uniform, diffuse thickening of glom. capillary wall, without hyperplasia
- EM = irregular dense deposits that form spikes when stained with silver (IgG and C3)
Positive Latex agglutination test detects the presence of ______.
- Cryptococcal polysaccharide capsular antigen
- LM = budding yeast
What happens to Mitral valve prolapse murmur with squatting?
- diminishes
* Incr venous return and incr afterload –> incr LV volume –> brings valve leaflets into more normal arrangement
What are 2 drugs used to treat HepC?
- IFN-alpha
- Ribavirin
What is the mechanism of action of Ribavirin?
Nucleoside antimetabolite with the following actions
- lethal hypermutation
- inhibits RNA polymerase and IMP DH (depleting GTP)
- defective 5’cep formation
- Modulates more effective immune response
Describe the entire process of Insulin release following Glucose entry into pancreatic beta cells:
- glucose enters via GLUT-2
- undergoes metabolism –> glycolysis –> TCA
- generates ATP
- high ATP/ADP ratio –> closure of K+ channels by ATP-binding
- K+ cannot leave the cell –> cell depolarization
- opening of voltage-gated Calcium channels
- Incr intracellular calcium –> Insulin release
Manifestations of vitamin E deficiency
Normally protects membranes from oxid. damage:
- skeletal myopathy
- spinocerebellar ataxia
- pigmented retinopathy
- Hemolytic anemia
What is the most common cause of aseptic meningitis? How is it transmitted?
- Enteroviruses (echovirus, coxsackie, polio)
- Fecal-oral transmission (ENTERO-viruses)
How does rifampin work?
What about fluoroquinolones?
- Blocks RNA synthesis (not via ribosomes)
- Bind to and inhibit DNA gyrase in bacterial cells —> DNA chain fracture
Why do you have to wait 2 weeks following MAOi d/c to start an SSRI? What happens during this time?
- Avoid serotonin syndrome
- MAOi is re-generated
What is responsible for the delayed clinical effects of antidepressants?
-Down-regulation of post-synaptic Monoamine receptors, decreasing their density within the synaptic cleft
What intubation induction agent can cause life threatening hyperKalemia? In what patient populations especially?
- Succinylcholine
- Burn victims, myopathies, crush injuries, denervating injuries or disease
*happens bc nACh receptors are non selective, so allow K+ efflux as well when acted upon by succinylcholine
What feature in herpes virus confers resistance to nucleoside analogs?
-What are tx options in those cases?
- Absence of viral thymidine kinase (phosphorylating enzyme) –> resistant to Acyclovir, Gancyclovir, Valacyclovir, Famciclovir
- Cidofovir or foscarnet
*cedofovir requires only a cellular kinase rather than a virally-encoded kinase
How is status epilepticus treated?
- First = IV Lorazepam )or other fast-acting benzo)
- simultaneously administer IV Phenytoin (acts on Na channels to reduce their ability to recover from inactivation)
Other than insulin resistance, what can cause acanthosis nigricans?
- Malignancy (GI and GU tracts especially)
- most common is gastric adenocarcinoma
What are some clinical features of a glucagonoma?
- Diabetes
- NECROLYTIC MIGRATORY ERYTHEMA: face, groin, extrem….elevated painful and pruritic rash. Papules/plaques coalesce to form large lesions with central clearing of BRONZE-colored induration
- glossitis, chelitis
- Normocytic, normochromic anemia
- incr glucagon in serum
How would a somatostatinoma present?
- abd pain
- gallstones
- constipation
- hyperglycemia
- steatorrhea
What 3 mutations are associated with early-onset alzheimers?
- Amyloid precursor protein on chromosome 21
- Presenelin 1 on chromosome 14
- Presenilin 2 on chromosome 1
*late onset alzheimers = ApoE4
What are some features of myotonic dystrophy?
- Autosomal dominant
- Trinucleotide CTG repeats with anticipation
- early childhood to late adulthood varied presentation
- Difficulty relaxing handgrip or doorknob
- Cataracts
- Frontal balding
- gonadal atrophy
- Biopsy = Atrophy of muscle fibers, type 1 more affected
WHat is mutated in Li-Fraumeni syndrome? Most common cancers?
- p53…AD…inherited p53 mutation in one allele, need second hit for dz
- Breast, brain, adrenal cortex, sarcomas and leukemias
How do primary CNS lymphomas appear microscopically? most common type
- dense, cellular aggregates of uniform, atypical lymphoid cells
- majority arise from B cells
- diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is most common type
What mutation is associated with MEN2A and 2B? Cells affected by this have what embryological origin?
- RET proto-oncogene
- Neural crest cells!
- these migrate to several locations, including the 4 pharyngeal pouches and adrenal meculla (hence medullary thyroid cancer of parafollicular C-cells, and pheo of mesothelial adrenal cells in medulla)
What translocation is associated with Burkitt lymphoma? What is the function of the resultant protein?
- t(8;14) –> c-myc
- c-myc phosphoprotein is transcriptional activator, controls cell proliferation, diff, apoptosis, etc
What are some derivitive of the 1st pharyngeal arch?
- Trigeminal nerve
- Mandible
- Malleus
- incus
- maxilla
- zygoma
- vomer
- palatine
Which neoplasm has an indolent course, causing waxing and waning painless LAD?
-Follicular lymphoma t(14;18) bcl-2
What is seen in pancreatic cells of pts with type 2 diabetes?
-Amyloid deposition (amylin)
What causes pigmented stones in someone who had recent cholecystitis?
- infection –>release of Beta-glucoronidase by injured hepatocytes and bacteria
- Beta-glucoronidase –> hydrolysis of bili glucoronides –> incr amount of unconjugated bili in the bile –> brown pigment stones
*common in rural asian populations, and usually E. Coli, Ascaris lumbricoides, Opisthorchis sinensis
Kid presenting with fever, gingivostomatitis, and lymphadenopathy….diagnosis? histo findings?
- Primary HSV-1 infection
- Intranuclear inclusions (replicate within host cell nucleus)
How do bisphosphonates work?
Alendronate, risedronate, ibandronate:
- structural analogues of pyrophosphate, an important component of hydroxyapetite
- makes hydroxyapetite more insoluble
- decr bone resorption by interfering with osteoclasts
- poor mucosal absorption…take on empty stomach with lots of water….causes reflux
- unchanged renal excretion
How can nitrates cause a paradoxical increase in myocardial O2 demand? What can overcome this?
- Vasodilation can cause reflex tachycardia, increasing demand
- Beta blockers by slowing AV conduction
- selective CCBs like diltiazem or verapamil may also work, but not as well
What is the pathology of Polyarteritis nodosa? What arteries are SPARED?
- segmental, transmural, necrotizing inflammation of medium to small sized arteries in any organ
- —> ischemia, infarction, hemorrhage
-PAN spares the pulmonary arteries and rarely involves bronchial arteries
What do you give someone with exposure to radioactive isotopes and why?
- Potassium-Iodide
- thyroid takes up Iodine, including radioactive…..so give them normal iodine to compete with radioactive form for absorption in the thyroid gland
WHat is the diagnosis in a kid with “differential cyanosis”, where his lower extremities are affected, but not his upper extremities?
-PDA…..bc happens after branches for UE come off the aorta