Final 2016 Flashcards
What is exposed to the surface of the cell that triggers apoptosis?
- Phosphatidylserine
- Phosphatidylcholine
- Phosphatidylserine
How does binding of 2,3 BPG to hemoglobin affect binding of O2 in human erythrocytes?
A-Compete with oxygen in binding to heme groups.
B- Decrease hemoglobin oxygen binding capacity by 50%.
C- Lower oxygen affinity by stabilizing deoxy conformation.
D- increase affinity of RBC to the bound O2
C- Lower oxygen affinity by stabilizing deoxy conformation.
What is the mechanism produced by Th1 to kill intercellular pathogen?
a) activation of infected macrophages
b) TNF-y mediated t cell cytotoxicity
c) IL-10
a) activation of infected macrophages
Patient with hypoxia and acute renal failure? What hematopoietic stem cells are affected?
a) myeloid
b) monoblast
c) proerythroblast
d) B -lymphocytes
c) proerythroblast
a 35-yr. old female with postpartum pulmonary embolism as she was being treated with heparin, then we followed her treatment by giving her warfarin, what is the appropriate mode of monitoring the long-term effect of warfarin?
a) measure of factor 2,7,9,10 levels
b) measure vitamin-K level
c) prothrombin time
d) D - doppler tests?
e) platelet function?
a) measure of factor 2,7,9,10 levels
What consequences would you expect in a patient who was found to have deficiency in surfactant SP-D?
a) Lower innate immunity
Female in 30 has facial rash, joint/ leg swelling, prolonged APTT, what is the pathogenesis? a) vWF deficiency
a) Acquired def. of factor 7, 9 “not sure”
b) Anti-phospholipids antibodies
c) DIC
b) Anti-phospholipids antibodies
A mutation in vWF will cause degeneration of which factor?
a) Factor V
b) Factor VII
c) Factor IX
d) Factor X
e) Factor XI
f) vWF
g) Factor VIII
h) Protein C
g) Factor VIII
a 5-year-old female with sickle cell presents with severe anemia, after 1 week she developed rash, joint pain, and viral DNA was detected in her blood, what’s the causative virus?
a) EBV
b) CMV
c) HIV
d) HCV
e) HTLV type 1
f) parvovirus B19
g) HBV
h) HTLV type 2
f) parvovirus B19
a 55-year-old man with Burkitt’s lymphoma, what’s the causative virus?
a) EBV
b) CMV
c) HIV
d) HCV
e) HTLV type 1
f) parvovirus B19
g) HBV
h) HTLV type 2
a) EBV
They showed us a similar picture in exam and asked us What causes the shift of curve (black line) to A or B?
a) B: High H+, High BPG
b) A: High H+, High Co2
c) B: low H+, Low BPG
d) A: High H+, High BPG
a) B: High H+, High BPG
What is the difference between myoglobin and hemoglobin?
a) Hemoglobin is tetramer while myoglobin is monomer
b) Fe +2 in hemoglobin/ Fe+3 in myoglobin
a) Hemoglobin is tetramer while myoglobin is monomer
in a patient branch of LAD supplying the septomarginal trabeculae showed occlusion. Which part of the ventricles will have loss of stimulation from purkinje fibers?
a) anterolateral papillary muscles
b) left posterior papillary muscles
c) septal papillary muscles
d) Lower part of interventricular septum
e) wall of right ventricle
a) anterolateral papillary muscles
Liver enlargement as a result of severe tricuspid valve insufficiency?
a) ascites
b) Heart failure cells
c) Passive chronic congestion
d) Corpulmonale
e) High output failure
c) Passive chronic congestion
Right ventricular heart failure with isolated interstitial lung disease?
a) ascites
b) Heart failure cells
c) Passive chronic congestion
d) Cor pulmonale
e) High output failure
d) Cor pulmonale
18-year-old male complaining of severe chest pain which is not relieving neither by rest nor vasodilator. What is the cause?
?
A 37-year-old male has a severe aortic stenosis and complains of angina on exertion. He is normotensive. Recent coronary angiography revealed normal coronary arteries. Which of these would likely reduce his angina?
a) Increase ventricular contractility
b) Increase venous return
c) Increase diuresis
d) Isolated diastolic hypertension
e) Coronary angioplasty
d) Isolated diastolic hypertension
A surgeon wanted to see the vertebra from the front, he removed the heart and along with it had to remove another structure, what is this structure?
- Esophagus
- Azygous vein
- Trachea
- Pulmonary trunk
- Vena cava
- Esophagus
A 36-year-old female with recurrent syncope, which is relieved by muscarinic receptor blocker, increase of what is responsible for relieving her symptoms?
b) ejection fraction
c) heart rate
d) plasma adrenaline level
e) stroke volume
c) heart rate
During the cardiac cycle, what will happen immediately after the beginning of the QRS wave? a) diastasis
b) isovolumic contraction
c) -ventricular ejection
d) -isovolumic relaxation
e) atrial diastole
b) isovolumic contraction
Patient taking disopyramide has tachycardia, what is it due to?
Antivagal activity
Image of hyperdiastolic orthostatic hypotension in a pt with drowsiness. her BP and HR were measure in supine and standing position, what is the cause of the changes seen in pic?
b) Antihypertensive drugs with vasodilators
c) Exacerbated parasympathetic activity
d) Regular stimulation
e) Delayed sympathetic activation
f) Normal change in standing
b) Antihypertensive drugs with vasodilators
Hypertensive patient, what will be seen in artery?
thickening of tunica media
Patient when injected with Acetylcholine, vasoconstriction happened in the coronary arteries. What is this due to?
a) Endothelial dysfunction
b) Endothelin
a) Endothelial dysfunction
MOA of clofibrate
a) PPAR Alpha
b) PCSK9
c) Inhibits cholesterol absorption in GI
a) PPAR Alpha
37-year-old man with severe upper respiratory tract infection soon develops acute myocardial dysfunction with left ventricular failure. He died despite therapy. At postmortem his heart showed extensive cardiac myocyte necrosis without any inflammatory reaction
a) Diphtheria Myocarditis
b) Toxoplasmosis Myocarditis
c) Viral Myocarditis
d) Bacterial Myocarditis
e) Giant cell Myocarditis
f) Hypersensitivity myocarditis
g) Rheumatic myocarditis
a) Diphtheria Myocarditis
something about taken drug then got sudden cardiac death?
a) Diphtheria Myocarditis
b) Toxoplasmosis Myocarditis
c) Viral Myocarditis
d) Bacterial Myocarditis
e) Giant cell Myocarditis
f) Hypersensitivity myocarditis
g) Rheumatic myocarditis
f) Hypersensitivity myocarditis
Caused by thyrotoxicosis
a) Supraventricular tachycardia.
b) Ventricular Fibrillation.
c) Sinus tachycardia
d) Complete heart block (3rd degree AV dissociation)
e) Atrial tachycardia.
c) Sinus tachycardia
Common in pregnancy.
a) Supraventricular tachycardia.
b) Ventricular Fibrillation.
c) Sinus tachycardia
d) Complete heart block (3rd degree AV dissociation)
e) Atrial tachycardia.
c) Sinus tachycardia
Which fuel is mostly oxidized in cardiomyocytes when the level of AMP is high?
a) Glycogen
b) Glucose
c) Lactate
d) Pyruvate
e) Triglyceride
f) Ketone bodies
e) Triglyceride
Which fuel is least used up when the level of fatty acid is high?
a) Glycogen
b) Glucose
c) Lactate
d) Pyruvate
e) Triglyceride
f) Ketone bodies
b) Glucose
Demarcates the line where the sinus venous is absorbed into the primitive atrium?
Crista terminalis
what forces the heart to work on a depressed frank starling curve?
- Sarcomeres length
- Positive inotropy
- Negative inotropy
- Positive dromotropy
- Negative dromotropy
- Positive chronotropy
- Negative chronotropy
- Treppe effect
- Negative inotropy
what phenomena results from accumulation of ca in the cytosol
- Sarcomeres length
- Positive inotropy
- Negative inotropy
- Positive dromotropy
- Negative dromotropy
- Positive chronotropy
- Negative chronotropy
- Treppe effect
- Treppe effect
What is an alpha2 agonist?
Methyldopa
What can an inclusion in the proximal end of LAD cause?
- left atrial embolism
- left ventricular embolism
- right atrial embolism
- right ventricular embolism
- left ventricular embolism
A 45 year old woman dies suddenly. During the post mortem dissection, the four chambers of
the heart were found dilated. What might be the cause of her condition?
- Genetics (genetical/ congenital defect)
- Chronic ischemia.
- Genetics (genetical/ congenital defect)
Tension pneumothorax on x-ray?
- Contralateral mediastinal tracheal shift
- Ipsilateral mediastinal tracheal shift
- ipsilateral dome elevation
Contralateral mediastinal tracheal shift
Why do we use carbon monoxide although it has poisonous effects?
Because it is diffusion limited
Bind D-Ala D-Ala inhibiting cross linking?
Vancomycin
Gyrase inhibitor?
ciprofloxacin
When chest wall expands during contraction of inspiratory muscles the lungs follow, what is the reason that makes the lungs follow chest wall and do not detach?
- surface tension of the pleural cavity
- positive alveolar pressure
surface tension of the pleural cavity
Which if the following is a sensitization route for Der P1 allergen?
Der p1 specific IgE binds to mast cells and trigger their degranulation
which of the following is an important histopathological feature of chronic bronchitis? - Eosinophilic infiltrate in the mucosa
- Lymphocytic infiltration
- Something about
neutrophilic exudate
- Hyperplasia and hypertrophy of mucus gland
Hyperplasia and hypertrophy of mucus gland