Diseases Flashcards
Sx: neonatal hypotonia, feeding difficulty, gential hypoplasia, developmental delay, hypopogmentation, distinct face, short
Prader Willi syndrome; paternal chromosome 15 deletion
Sx: inappropriate laughter, small head, seizures, mental retardation, ataxia gait,
Angelman syndrome; loss of maternal chromsome 15
Signs : autoimmune, inflam of walls of medium sized arteries (+ coronary arteries), cardiac ischemia, in children under 5, fatal coronary artery aneurysms in untreated children
Kawasaki Disease
Tx: high-dose aspirin with IV gamma globins
Kawasaki Disease
Sx: swallen tongues and feet and lymph nodes in children, strawberry tongue and lips, and through, hands and feet with purple-red color. skin peeling
Kawasaki Disease
Sx autoimmune attack on collagen IV chain, kidney failure, hemoptosis (cough blood)
Good pastures’s diseases
Lack of Vit.C
Scurvy
Lack of hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine, poor wound healing, easy to bruise and bleed, perifollicular
scurvy
Sx, Aut dom, brittle bones, blue sclera, hearing loss, mutiple fracture, poor dentation
Osteogensis imperfecta
Classical type (type 5 collagen) and vascular type (type iII collagen)
Ehlers danlos syndrome
Chr tr(8, 14), sore throat, fatigue, palatal petechiae, or adenopathy, EPV virus infection
Burkett’s lymphoma