endocrine and blood

Question 1

increase GH

Answer 1

gigantism-C

acromegaly-A

Question 2

increase TSH

Answer 2

Graves

Question 3

decrease TSH

Answer 3

myxedema

cretinism- kids

Question 4

increase ACTH

Answer 4

Cushings- moon face, hirsutism, buffalo hump

Question 5

decrease ACTH

Answer 5

addisons- bronze skin, hypotension

Question 6

tertiary stage syphilis involves vasa vasorum

Answer 6

syphilitc aortitis

Question 7

aortic arch syndrome-occlusive thromboaortopathy

Answer 7

Takayasu

Question 8

what inflames temporal and intracranial arteries and can cause blindness

Answer 8

giant cell arteritis

temporal arteritis

Question 9

polyarteritis nodosa

Answer 9

young adults, nodular reddish swellings, narrows arteries from fibrosis

Question 10

necrotizing vasculitis of lungs, kidneys and nasopharynx

Answer 10

Wegener’s granulomatosis

Question 11

triphasic color change in raynauds

Answer 11

pallor
cyanosis
rubor

Question 12

mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in children with conjunctival and oral edema MI

Answer 12

kawasaki-death 3%

Question 13

heme production disrupted, dark purple urine

Answer 13

porphyria

Question 14

fault synthesis hemoglobin, severe anemia

Answer 14

thalassemia

Question 15

lymph cancer associated with chromosome 8

Answer 15

Burkitts lymphoma

Question 16

MC breast tumor

Answer 16

fibroadenoma

Question 17

MC form of invasive breast cancer

Answer 17

invasive ductal carcinoma- in situ

Question 18

penial cancer that is in situ stage of squamous cell carcinoma, shaft of penis

Answer 18

Bowen disease

Question 19

autosomal recessive β-globin mutation, carrier status is in heterozygous patients, but the disease develops in homozygous patients

Answer 19

sickle cell anemia

Question 20

sickled RBCs are prone to clotting, which is a risk for a lethal stroke or acute chest syndrome

Answer 20

sickle cell disease

Question 21

known to affect Mediterranean patients, autosomal recessive β-globin mutation, excess of opposite globin chain damages RBCs, which results in hemolysis

Answer 21

B-thalassemia

Question 22

Heinz bodies or bite cells

Answer 22

GP6D

Question 23

aggressive childhood leukemia, B cell cancer age 4

Answer 23

acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Question 24

MC adult leukemia, B cell age 60

Answer 24

chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Question 25

B cell cancer that characteristically affects the facial bone of African children, well-known for it’s “starry sky” pattern on biopsy

Answer 25

Burkitts lymphoma

Question 26

salt and pepper appearance with skull bone erosion

Answer 26

Hyperparathyroidism

Question 27

aggressive cancer of marrow myeloblasts, affects adults (as all myeloid cancers do), has characteristic Auer Rods on marrow biopsy

Answer 27

acute myeloid leukemia

Question 28

myeloid cancer of adults, quickly spreads to other organs (like the spleen), has characteristic Philadelphia chromosome, which is from a t(9:22) and produces a BCR-ABL fusion gene

Answer 28

chronic myelogenous leukemia

Question 29

cancerous cause of too many RBCs

Answer 29

polycythemia vera

Question 30

elevated blood pressure in the protal venous system (veins of the liver), which produces… ascites, esophageal varices, or caput medusae

Answer 30

portal HTN