Heart And Respiratory System Flashcards
Non modifiable major risk factor for ATH
Increasing age
Male gender
Familly history
Genetic abnormalities
Most Mis are caused by
Acute coronary artery thrombosis
What are the 2 forms of MIs
1-Nontransmural (subendocardial) : involving less than half of myocardial thickness, the inner half
2-Transmural: involving entire or almost entire thickness of myocardium
Isolated right ventricle infarcts occurs in how many cases
Occurs in only 1-3%
80% cause of Pneumonia
Streptococcus pneumoniae
4 stages of lobar pneumonia
Congestion
Red hepatization
Gray hepatization
Resolution
Lung adenocarcinoma marker
TTF-1 or mucin
Squamous cell carcinoma marker
P40 or p63
Asbestosis
Pulmonary fibrosis caused by asbestos
Survival rates in lung cancer stage III and IV
13 to 1%
Stage IV of lung cancer
Any T any N
M1 : distant metastases including separate nodule in a different lobe
Lung cancer paraneoplastic symptoms
Dermatomyositis
Acanthosis nigricans
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Peripheral neuropathies
Sweets syndrome is associted with and cest quoi ?
Associated with squamous cell carcinoma
Neutrophilic dermatoses
Which cancer have the highest frequency of weight loss
Pancreatic and gastric cancer
Most frequent subtype of adenocarcinoma
80% are MIXED (acinar,papillary, solid types)
Lepidic adenocarcinoma
Atypical neoplastic cells growing along the surface of alveolar walls
STAS tumor spread through air spaces
Adenocarcinoma
Most common sources of metastatic tumors to lung
1-Breast
2-Colon
Major cause of death in cancer patient
Infection (36%)
Most common tumor of adult heart
Myxoma
Set of biomarkers for lung cancer
Carcinoembryonic antigen CEA Cytokeratin 19 frag 21-1 Squamous cell carcinoma antigen SCC Neuron specific enolase NSE CRP
