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What is a Type I Hypersensitivity Reaction?

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Immediate with rapid reaction within minutes. Characterized by shock, edema, and respiratory compromise

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What is Type II Hypersensitivity Reaction?

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Antibody-mediated, caused by Abs against cell surface or ECM antigens

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What is Type III Hypersensitivity Reaction?

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Immune complex-mediated, damaging inflammatory reaction to antigen-Ab complexes especially in blood or glomeruli

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What is Type IV Hypersensitivity Reaction?

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Cell-mediated, delayed, caused by sensitized CD4 T cells, producing granulomas

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What does anti-CCP test for?

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Anti-centromere?

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CREST syndrome (limited systemic sclerosis)

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Anti-Jo-1

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Polymyositis/dermatomyositis

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Anti-Scl70 = Anti-DNA topoisomerase

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Systemic Sclerosis (diffuse)

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Anti-RNA Polymerase

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Systemic Sclerosis, with renal crisis

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Anti-U1 RNP

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Mixed connective tissue disease

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Anti-Sm

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Lupus

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Anti-ddDNA

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Lupus

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Anti-Nuclear (ANA)

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Lupus and many other rheumatic disease

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Anti-SSA

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Sjogren’s Syndrome, Neonatal Lupus, Subcut, Lupus

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Anti-SSB

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Sjogren’s Syndrome, Neonatal Lupus, Subcu Lupus

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Anti-Myeloperoxidase, P-ANCA

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Microscopic Polyangiitis, Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis

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C-ANCA

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Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

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What are general types of therapy used?

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Chemotherapy, corticosteroids, transplant rejection medicines

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What are immunosuppressive chemotherapeutic drugs freqeuntly used?

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Methotrexate and Cyclophosphamide

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What effect to corticosteroids have?

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Anti-inflammatory

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What are two transplant rejection drugs?

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Cyclosporine and Tracrolimus

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What is the method of transplant rejection drugs?

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They are calcineurin inhibitors. Bind intracytoplasmic receptor proteins called immunophilins, which inhibit calcineurin. Calcineurin normally dephosphorylates regulatory proteins, allowing them to pass into the nucleus of the lymphocyte, promoting T cell activation and secretion of TNF, IFN-GAMMA, IL2 AND IL4.

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What is mycophonelate mofetil (cellcept)?

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Reversible inhibitor of inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase in purine biosyn that inhibits DNA replication, inhibiting lymphocyte proliferation

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What is mycophenolate mofetil used to treat?

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SLE

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What is azathioprine?
Messes up DNA replication, used in SLE, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and other AI diseases
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What is hydroxycholoroquine?
Anti-malarial antibiotic with anti-inflammatory activity used to treat SLE and Rheumatoid Arthritis
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What are gross pathologies of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus?
Non-erosive synovitis, pluritis, pericarditis, peritonitis, splenomegaly
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What are microscopic pathology of SLE?
Acute necrotizing vasculitis of arteries, nephritis, cerebritis
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What are signs of SLE?
Butterfly skin rash on face, edema, fatigue, weight loss, joint pain, fever, pleuritic chest pain
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What are symptoms of sjogren syndrome?
Dry ocular and oral mucosa, enlarged salivary and lacrimal glands, fatigue, joint pain, conjunctival and oral ulcers
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What is systemic sclerosis?
An abnormal accumulation of fibrous tissue in skin and organs. Widespread skin involvement
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What is the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis?
Abnormal immune response + vascular damage = increased growth factors leading to fibrosis.
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What are symptoms of systemic sclerosis?
Joint pain, stiffness, digestive problems, edema of hands and feet, puffy fingers are first sign later: hard or shiny skin over long bones of arms and lower legs
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What are microscopic manifestations of GVHD
erythematous rash and biopsy show lymphocytic infiltrate with apoptosis of epidermal cells, especially at dermal-epidermal junction. visible by a gap between the two layers. in liver, hepatocytes undergo apoptosis
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What is XLA?
Congential immunodeficiency with failure of B cells to produce Abs due to faulty Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase
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What is amyloidosis?
Progressive organ dysfunction that can be systemic or localized.
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What are symptoms of amyloidosis?
Nonspecific complaint such as weakness, fatigue, weight loss. Later, renal disease (gaining water weight), hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, or cardiac abnormalities
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A man gets a platelet transfusion and gets growing areas of itchy skin edema. What's the mechanism?
Mast cells, IgE, and leukotriene
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What do mast cells release?
Histamine
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What is the major prostaglandin that mast cells release
PGD2
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What are mast cell products?
Histamine chemokines, kallkrein generating factors, granule-associated proteases, peroxidase, proteoglycans
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What is urticaria?
Hives, type I immediate hypersensitivity reaction caused by antigen reaction with preformed IgE on surface of mast cells.
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What plus what plus.... = type I immediate hypersensitivity?
Mast cells + IgE + histamine + leukotrienes + PGD2
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A 5 yo gets a sore throat, week later onset of malaise, nausea and slight fever. Her urine is smoky brown and decreased. What is mechanism of her disease?
Antigen-Xs immune complexes. Ab-antigen complexes accumulate in the kidneys. Poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis
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What is Goodpasture's Syndrome?
Affects lungs and kidneys, Abs to alveolar and glomerular basement membranes. Hemoptysis and hematuria. Usually in 20-40 yo. Kidneys - rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis with glomerular crescent formation. Lungs - heavy, areas of red-brown consolidation from bleeding and hemosidering deposition. LINEAR deposits of IgG
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What kind of IgG deposits are present in SLE?
Granular subendothelial deposits of IgG thickening capillaries circumferentially.
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What is poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis?
Most common in 6-10 yo. Fever, malaise, nausea, smoky urine. Hematuria, edema, proteinuria, hypertension. Increased IgG, decreased C3 complement. Granular deposits of IgG and C3. Swelling periorbital region due to edema
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What are symptoms of AIDS?
Acute phase - sore throat, myalgia, fever, rash and sometimes aseptic meningitis Crisis phase - fever of more than one month, fatigue, weight loss, and diarrhea
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What are symptoms of amyloidosis?
nonspecific complaints such as weakness, fatigue, weight loss, Later, renal disease (severe edema), hepato,splenomegalies, cardiac abnormalities
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What are symptoms of heart failure?
Dyspnea, orthopnea, paroxysmal noctural dyspnea (waking up short of breath),
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Hepatic Failure symptoms
jaundice, bleeding (decreased clotting factors), edema, hepatic encephalopathy (confusion progressing to coma)
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What are symptoms of SLE?
Weight loss, fatigue, joint pain, fever, butterfly rash, pleuritic chest pain
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What is the time course of HIV viral load?
Acute phase - increases to peak of 10 million/ml plasma at about 6 weeks Clinical latency - decreases to about 10,000/ml plamsa Final crisis stage - 11 years and back up to 10 million
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What is the course of CD4 load in HIV?
Acute phase - initial normal of 1000 to around 500 at six weeks Clinical latency - gradual decline to around 50/cu mm at about 9 years Final crisis stage - down to around 5/cu mm
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At what CD4 load count to symptoms begin? At what count to opportunistic infxns begin?
200/cu mm 100/cu mm
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What is primary amyloidosis?
Deposition of Amyloid-Light chains. Associated with multiple myeloma
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What is secondary amyloidosis?
Amyloid-Associated. Associated with chronic inflammation
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What is localized amyloidosis?
Deposition in a single organ. associated with alzheimers. Most common form of dementia. Alpha-Beta chains
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What is the common patient for systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)?
Women of childbearing age
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What is the classic patient for SLE?
Women of childbearing age
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What is induced amyloidosis?
It's frequently dialysis patients because they cannot get rid of the HLA,so you accumulate MHC Class I.
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What is scleroderma?
Scleroderma excess fibrous deposition and tissue. Typically associated with CREST. Due to xs inflammation an tissue destruction. IgG-mediated with rheumatoid factor. Assocaited with Scl-70. Results in contracture. Mask face, claw hand! No treatment. Vasculature and smooth muscle replaced by collagen.

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