Deck 6 Flashcards
What heart complication does the rubicin chemo agents cause? Tx?
Dilated cardiomyopathy; swelling of sarcoplasmic reticulum is first sign then myocyte loss; prevent with dexrazoxane (iron chelating agent that prevents free radicals)
Which cytokine mediates formation of pus?
IL-8: Mx and endothelial cells secrete to recruit neutrophils to site of infection & induces phagocytosis
What Tx for drug (antipsychotic) induced parkinsonism?
Centrally acting antimuscarinic (trihexyphenidyl, benztropine)
What are examples of multifactorial inheritence?
Spina bifida, cleft lip and palate, DM, CAD, HTN
What are most common non-cardiac causes of pulsus paradoxis?
Asthma & COPD- incr intrathoracic pressure transmitted to extrathoracic structures and leads to excessive drop in blood pressure with inspiration
How is hereditary PAH transmitted?
Autosomal dom - BMPR2 mutation: dysfunctional endothelium and smooth muscle proliferation
How can you distinguish MAC from tuberculosis? What prophylaxis Tx in HIV?
MAC = anemia, hepatoSPM, elevated alk phos/ lactate dehydrogenase, grows better at 41 C; give azithromycin for prophylaxis in HIV
What causes decrease in systolic pressure in pulsus paradoxis?
Inspiration: incr venous return expands into restricted LV and decreases EDV and SV
What is the cause of Turner XO?
Paternal meiotic nondisjunction (loss of parental X chromosone in sperm)
What causes diastolic HF? What are diagnostic findings?
Decr ventricular compliance from impaired relaxation (ischemia, HCM) or incr stiffness (amyloid, HCM); Incr end-diastolic pressure, NORMAL end-diastolic volume and LV ejection fraction
Vascular lesion w IgA and C3 deposition, rash on legs, abd pain, arthralgias…?
Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
What incr risk of squamous cell of esophagus?
Smoking, alcohol, achalasia
Describe Friedrich Ataxia- inheritance? Symptoms? Population?
Aut recessive- kids 5-15; difficulty walking (ataxia), HCM, kyphoscoliosis, foot abnormalities, DM
What causes S-100 immunoreactivity?
Neural crest origin: Schwannoma (schwann cells), melanoma
Histo of schwannoma?
Biphasic pattern with areas of dense elongated cells with oval nuclei (Antoni A) + less dense myxoid region (Antoni B);
What nerve is not affected in schwannoma? Most common site?
All but CN II (Oligo covered); most common = cerebropontine angle @ CN VIII -> bilateral acoustic neuroma