Formative assessments Flashcards
Which of these is an example of acute inflammation?
a) glandular fever
b) leprosy
c) appendicitis
d) tuberculotis
appendicitis
glandular fever is primary chronic inflammation
leprosy and tuberculotis are microbacterial infections that cause primary chronic inflammation
Which of these is an example of hyperplasia?
a) body builder’s bicep
b) enlarged left ventricle
c) benign prostate enlargement
d) wasting of quadriceps
benign prostate enlargement
body builder’s bicep has skeletal muscle and left ventricle has cardiac muscles. these types of muscles cannot replicate
wasting of quadriceps is atrophy
Which of these is an example of granulomatous inflammation?
a) crohn’s disease
b) appendicitis
c) infectious mononucleasis
d) lobar pneumonia
crohn’s disease
appendicitis and lobar pneumonia are acute inflammations
infectious mononuleasis is primary chronic inflammation
Which of these is not an inherited condition?
a) huntington’s disease
b) haemophilia
c) sickle cell anaemia
d) foetal alcohol syndrome
foetal alcohol syndrome
Which of these is not associated with dementia (any decline in cognitive function)?
a) down’s
b) huntington’s syndrome
c) Alzheimer’s disease
d) cerebral palsy
cerebral palsy
Which of these uses autosomal dominance inheritance?
a) familial adenomotous polyposis
b) colour blindness
c) cystic fibrosis
d) sickle cell disease
FAP
the other three are recessive
colour blindness is also X linked
Which of these is not an example of apoptosis?
a) loss of cells from tip of duodenal villi
b) loss of cells in embyrogenesis
c) renal infarction
d) graft vs host disease
renal infarction (necrosis)
which of these is a primary chronic inflammation?
a) appendicitis
b) cholecystitis
c) infectious mononucleosis
d) lobar pneumonia
infectious mononucleasis
the others are acute inflammation (with cholecystitis leading on to chronic inflammation after)
which cells can regenerate?
a) neurons
b) myocytes
c) hepatocytes
d) nephrons
hepatocytes
Which pathologies can end with full resolution?
a) lobar pneumonia
b) cerebral infarction
c) myocardial infarction
d) partial nephrectomy
lobar pneumonia
the others don’t have cells that can regenerate
Which neoplasm never metastases?
a) melanoma
b) small cell carcinoma of lung
c) basal cell carcinoma of skin
d) breast cancer
basal cell carcinoma
which neoplasm won’t metastasise to bone?
a) breast cancer
b) lung cancer
c) prostate cancer
d) liposarcoma
liposarcoma
which type of cancer doesn’t have screening in the UK?
a) breast cancer
b) colerectal cancer
c) cervical cancer
d) lung cancer
lung cancer
which carcinogen is not known to be a carcinogen of humans?
a) hep C virus
b) ionising radiation
c) aromatic amines
d) aspergillus niger
apergillus niger
it is a fungus that grows in showers when they are damp
what is not a feature of a malignant tumour?
a) vascular invasion
b) metastasis
c) increased cell division
d) growth related to overall body growth
growth related to overall body growth
hamartoma is a benign tumour and it does this.
what is most likely to cause cancer?
a) drinking 1/2 a bottle of wine per day
b) obesity
c) running
d) smoking 20 cigarettes a day
smoking 20 cigarettes a day
which tumour has the shortest median survival time?
a) basal cell carcinoma
b) malignant melanoma
c) breast cancer
d) anaplastic carcinoma
anaplastic carcinoma
has a median survival of 6 weeks
which of these infections are most often seen in patients with hypogammaglobulinemia?
a) cytomegalovirus retinitis
b) pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
c) streptococcus pneumoniae sinusitis
d) staphyloccus aureus abscesses
streptococcus pneumoniae sinusitis
(due to primary antibody deficiency)
[staphyloccus due to primary defects in phagocytic function which is less common than the first one)
which of these is not an organ-specific autoimmune disease?
a) type 1 diabetes mellitus
b) pernicious anaemia
c) hashimoto’s thyroiditis
d) ulcerative colitis
e) multiple sclerosis
ulcerative colitis
which of these is a classical PAMP?
a) heat shock protein
b) RIG 1
c) lipopolysaccharide
d) interleukin 1
e) TLR 2
lipopolysaccharide
(heat shock protein is DAMP)
(RIG1 and TLR2 are receptors that detect the PAMP and DAMP)
(interleukin1 released from cells to promote immunity)
which of these functions are true for T cells?
a) t cells mature in thyroid gland
b) all t cells secrete cytotoxic material
c) t cells respond to proteins on surface of host cells
d) t cells secrete IgG when activated
T cells respond to proteins on surface of host cells
the normal immunological control of tumours is called:
a) immunological tolerance
b) immune surveillance
c) type 3 hypersensitivity
d) immunological silence
e) superantigen recognition
immune surveillance
which of these features are true for the adaptive immune system?
a) its efficiency is not affected by prior contact with the pathogens
b) it would not work without lymphocytes
c) it lacks specificity
d) it generally distinguishes self from non-self
d) its effectiveness is enhanced by complement
it wouldn’t work without lymphocytes
which of these proteins is essential in inducing a cytotoxic t cell response?
a) IgG
b) complement C3
c) Mannose binding lectin
d) MHC 1
e) TLR4
MHC1
which of these statements are false for biological therapies of autoimmune disease?
a) delivered with low dose cytotoxic drug methotrexate
b) have no risk of bacterial infection, unlike conventional treatment
c) include adalimumab, tocilizumab, retuximan
d) are immunosuppresive and are always injected
e) are expensive and only prescribed in NHS once conventional therapies have failed
no risk of bacterial infection unlike conventional treatments
which of these is not part of the elimination phase of complement activation?
a) phagocytosis
b) target cell lysis
c) chemoattraction of leukocytes
d) production of interferons
e) opsonisation
production of interferons
which cell is being described (located only in tissues, responds to IgE coated objects by degranulation thus releasing inflammatory mediators, proteases, histamine)?
a) neutrophil
b) eosinophil
c) mast cell
d) macrophage
e) fibroblast
mast cell
Patient starts on commonly used drug, they develop an unusual ADR that you have never seen before, what should you do after stopping the drug and informing the patient?
- report the ADR on a yellow card
- contact the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug to inform them
- write the case up in a case report to educate other doctors
- contact the local pharmacy to tell them
- stop prescribing the drug to all patients
- report the ADR on a yellow card
woman has over-active bladder, she’s given anti-cholinergic drug to help, which of these symptoms are not a side effect of anti-cholinergic drugs?
- constipation
- constricted pupils
- dry mouth
- reduced sweating
- tachycardia
constricted pupils
a man has lower urinary tract symptoms and suffers from narrow angle glaucoma, which drug will help his lower urinary tract symptoms but will worsen his narrow angle glaucoma?
- 5alpha reductase inhibitor
- alpha1 receptor antagonist
- anticholinergic
- beta3 receptor agonist
anticholinergic
an iV abuser has reduced resp rate and pin-point pupils, which drug do you give to reverse his opioid overdose?
- flumazenil
- fentanyl
- glucagon
- naloxone
- neostigmine
naloxone