Exam 1 Diseases Flashcards
A hispanic or black woman in her 20's comes in with butterfly rash, fever, pain but normal joints, pleuritic chest pain, photosensitivity, has had several miscarriages and tests positive for syphilis, what disease does she have? What is the test for it? 3 What happens in this disease? Why does she test positive for syphilis? What HLA molecule is it linked to?
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
IF Test for ANA, Anti-dsDNA, antiSM
Antibodies against DNA, histones, RNA proteins, and nucleolar antigens
Antiphospholipid antibodies create false positive for syphilis
HLA-DR1
A person comes in with skin manifestations like SLE, skin plaques of edema, erythema, scaliness, follicular plugging, skin atrophy, AND elevated erthematous border on face and scalp, what do they have?
What do you test?
Chronic Discoid Lupus
Test for ANA
A person comes in with a widespread but nonscarring skin rash and systemic symptoms similar to SLE, what do they have?
What do you test?
What HLA molecule is it linked to?
Subacute cutaneous lupus
anti-SS-A
HLADR3
Person on hydralizine, procainamide, isoniazid, and D-penicillamine come in with SLE like symptoms, what do they have?
What do you test for?
Drug-induced lupus
Anti-histone Ab’s
Person comes in with terrible joint pain and some skin, bv’s, lungs and heart issues, what do they have?
Rheumatoid arthritis
A woman between ages of 50-60 comes in with chronic dry eyes and dry mouth as well as difficulty with taste and parotid gland enlargement, what does she have?
What do you test? 2
What are the two types of this disease?
What happens in this disease
Sjogren syndrome
Anti-SS-A and anti-SS-B
Primary: Sjogren alone and Secondary: Sjogren with another autoimmune
CD4 and B cells enter lacrimal and salivary glands
A female aged 50-60 comes in with chronic inflammation, skin thickening, abdominal pain, right sided cardiac failure, pulmonary fibrosis, and weight loss anemia, what does she have?
What do you test?
What happens in this disease?
Systemic-Scleroderma Diffuse
Anti-Scl-70
Chronic inflammation, damage to blood vessels, fibrosis in alot of organs but especially skin
A person comes in with calcinosis, Raynaud’s red discoloration of fingers with cold, esophageal dysmotility, trouble swallowing, sclerodactylyl and telangectasia, what does she have?
What do you test?
What is the pneumonic for remembering the symptoms?
Limited Scleroderma
Anticentromere
Calcinosis, Raynaud’s, Esophageal dystmotility, Sclerodactyly, Telangectasia (CREST)
A person comes in with symmetric muscle weakness in large muscles, what does he or she have?
Inflammatory myopathy: Polymyositis
A person comes in with rash on upper eyelids and periorbital edema, what does he have?
Dermatomyositis
A person comes in with symptoms like SLE, along with Polymyositis and systemic sclerosis, what does he have?
What do you test?
Mixed CT disease
Anti-RNP antigen
A person comes in with necrotizing inflammation of walls of blood vessels and something seems wrong with his immune system, what does he or she have?
Polyarteritis nodosa
A 6 month old baby boy comes in with recurrent infection of respiratory tract (pharygitis, sinusitis, otitis media, bronchitis, and pneumonia) as well as viral infections, what does this person have?
Where is the defect?
What fails in this disease?
What is treatment?
X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Mutation in cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase (bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK)
Can’t make mature B cells
Intravenous immunoglobulin
A teenager comes in with recurrent sinopulmonary pyogenic infections and is prone to Giarda, what does this person have?
What is happening?
Common Variable Immunodeficiency
Normal B cells are made but normal Antibodies are not. (Hypogammaglobulinemia state)
A person of European descent comes in with recurrent sinopulmonary infections and diarrhea as well as rejection of a recent transfusion, what does he have?
How common is this?
What happens?
Isolated IgA deficiency
Most common of all primary immunodeficiencies
Low levels of IgA causes increased risk of autoimmune disease. Naive B cells are stressed to make IgA and end up getting impaired B cells.