Kaplan2 Flashcards
What is metabolic syndrome?
Metabolic syndrome is characterized by three of the following traits:
- abdominal obesity
- elevated serum triglycerides
- low HDL, blood pressure greater than or equal to 130/85 mmHg
- fasting plasma glucose greater than or equal to 100 mg/dL.
- patient being on drug treatment for any of the above mentioned traits.
Oxidative metabolism, many mitochondria, many capillaries describe muscles that are best used for what type of exercise?
Endurance exercise
The binding of _________ to its receptor activates adenylate cyclase, which increases the intracellular concentration of cAMP and ultimately promotes glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis.
glucagon
The binding of glucagon to its receptor activates adenylate cyclase, which increases the intracellular concentration of _____ and ultimately promotes glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis.
cAMP
The binding of glucagon to its receptor activates adenylate cyclase, which increases the intracellular concentration of cAMP and ultimately promotes what processes?
glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis.
type I glycogen storage disease (Von Gierke’s), which is caused by a deficiency in what enzyme?
glucose-6-phosphatase
______________ deficiency prevents the liver from releasing glucose into the blood and therefore leads to hepatic glycogen accumulation, causing hepatomegaly.
Glucose-6-phosphatase
von Gierke
Serum angiotensin converting enzyme has relatively poor sensitivity and specificity for what disease? (however if elevated it is also suggestive of the disease)
sarcoidosis
asymmetric upper and lower motor neuron disease (suggested by weakness with both hyporeflexia and hyperreflexia), along with fasciculations (particularly of the tongue) and cramping with a preservation of cognitive function are highly suggestive of what neurological disease?
ALS
What neuro disease results from a progressive degeneration of the lateral corticospinal tracts as well the neurons of the anterior horns.
ALS
What is seen on pathology of ALS?
inclusion bodies that stain positive for superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) and ubiquitin.
What are the S/Sx of Brown-Séquard syndrome, which results from hemisection of the spinal cord?
Below the level of the lesion, patients demonstrate ipsilateral signs of upper motor neuron damage (hyperreflexia, positive Babinski sign) due to the severing of the lateral corticospinal tract.
ipsilateral loss of proprioception, fine touch, and vibration sensation due to damage of the dorsal columns.
Contralaterally, patients experience a loss of pain and temperature sensation below the lesion due to spinothalamic tract trauma.
The external spermatic fascia containing the mass is ~w/ with ?
Direct Inguinal hernia
The external spermatic fascia is continuous with the external abdominal oblique, and this is the outer covering of a direct inguinal hernia as it herniates through the superficial inguinal ring.
What type of hernia is most often found penetrating the abdominal wall MEDIAL to the inferior epigastric artery?
Direct Inguinal hernia
~w/ older men
What type of hernia is most often found penetrating the abdominal wall LATERAL to the inferior epigastric artery?
Indirect Inguinal hernia
Antibodies ~w/ primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)???
anti-mitochondrial antibodies (AMA)
Pt. typically present with itching, fatigue, jaundice, unexplained weight loss, right-upper-quadrant pain, and hepatosplenomegaly in what disease?
biliary cirrhosis (PBC)
What are the Labs ~w/ biliary cirrhosis (PBC)?
abnormal liver biochemical tests that show a cholestatic pattern of injury with elevated alkaline phosphatase, direct and total bilirubin, IgM, and cholesterol.
Antibodies ~w/ type 1 autoimmune hepatitis ?
Anti-Smooth muscle
- liver biochemical tests typically show a hepatocellular pattern of injury with elevated transaminases and normal or slightly elevated alkaline phosphatase and total bilirubin.
Antibodies ~w/ type 2 autoimmune hepatitis.
Anti-Liver/Kidney Microsomal antibodies are positive in type 2 autoimmune hepatitis.
__________ an autosomal recessive defect in a membrane transporter in the renal proximal tubule for the amino acids cysteine, ornithine, arginine, lysine (COAL).
cystinuria
Tx for cystinuria?
Treatment includes alkalization of the urine and hydration.
Zenker diverticulum is a ______ diverticulum.
False
What Leser-Trélat sign and what malignancy is it ~w/?
Leser-Trélat sign, a sudden eruption of multiple seborrheic keratoses.
What type of stool is intussuception ~w/?
“red currant jelly” stools in peds.
*** “red currant jelly” stools in adults = Mesenteric ischemia
false diverticulum involves only what?
mucosa and submucosa.
_______________ is a mucosal herniation through Killian triangle, which is a weakness in the musculature between the transverse fibers of the cricopharyngeus muscle and the oblique fibers of the inferior pharyngeal constrictor muscle (lower inferior constrictor).
Zenker diverticulum
Zenker diverticulum is a mucosal herniation through Killian triangle, which is a weakness in the musculature between the transverse fibers of the ______1______ muscle and the oblique fibers of the ______2_______ muscle (lower inferior constrictor).
- cricopharyngeus
2. inferior pharyngeal constrictor
Meckel diverticulum is also associated with ____________ and _____________.
intussusception and volvulus
What two tumor markers are ~w/ Gastric Cancers?
Carcinoembryonic antigens (CEA)
Carbohydrate antigen (CA 19–9)
adiograph classically shows the coffee-bean sign, where the dilated portion of the bowel resembles a coffee-bean.
= ???
sigmoid volvulus
_________________ is a true diverticulum characterized by a persistent vitelline (omphalomesenteric) duct, the long narrow tube that joins the yolk sac to the midgut lumen of the developing fetus.
Meckel diverticulum
Hypertrophy of Peyer’s patches leading to invagination of one segment of bowel into a neighboring, distal segment ==> ???
intussuception
Where do you find Zenker (esophageal) diverticulum?
proximal to the cricopharyngeus muscle. The cricothyroid membrane is part of the trachea.
PT w/ LLQ pain, fever, and early diarrhea followed by constipation; what is high on your ddX?
Diverticulitis
Diverticulitis is inflammation of the wall of a diverticulum due to irritation by stool impaction in the diverticulum sac, potentially leading to ulceration and ischemia.
In adults, what is the most common cause of intussusception?
tumor within the intestinal tract.
Palpable skin lesions on butt in a peds pt. == ??
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP);
_______________ is the only drug that slows heart rate (negative chronotropic effect) with no effect on cardiac contractility (inotropy) and/or relaxation (lusitropy). It slows the rate of sinoatrial node firing by selective inhibition of funny sodium channels (If), thereby prolonging the slow depolarization phase (phase 4).
Ivabradine
What drug is the major anti-epileptic drug that bloacks T-Type calcium channels in thalamic neurons?
Ethosuximide,
What is the first line Tx for essential tremor?
Propranolol.
Essential tremor is a tremor that gets worst as you are trying to hold a posture, like holding out a cup.
Resting tremor ~w/ ?
Parkinsons L-DOPA/levodopa
Migratory thrombophebitis should increase suspicion for what?
CANCER
Migratory thrombophlebitis should raise suspicion for cancer. Hypercoagulability is a very common paraneoplastic syndrome seen most frequently in visceral adenocarcinomas of the pancreas, colon, and lung. Hypercoagulability develops because adenocarcinomas produce a thromboplastin-like substance capable of causing chronic intravascular coagulations that can disseminate and tend to migrate.
The malabsorption resulting from celiac sprue can result in __________ deficiency.
Vitamin K def.
What is Trousseau Sign?
hand/forearm muscle spasms.
~w/ visceral cancer
(bilateral) wedge-shpaed strips of necrosis ~w/ ?
Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
Profound cerebral hypoperfusion may lead to global cerebral ischemia (also called ischemipc-hyoxic encephalopathy).
Watershed infarcts occur between the zones of perfusion of the anterior, middle, and posterior cerebral arteries.
These infarcts typically appear as bilateral wedge-shaped strips of necrosis over the cerebral convexity, parallel and adjacent to the longitudinal cerebral fissure.
uterine curettage with findings of dilated, coiled endometrial glands and edematous stroma == ???
An ectopic pregnancy is characterized by implantation outside of the uterus. Uterine curettage would reveal decidual changes in the endometrium due to progesterone secretion but no embryonic or trophoblastic tissue (eg, no villi).
A precordial continuous, machine-like murmur that occurs during both systole and diastole indicates what?
patent ductus arteriosus.
Patent ductus arteriosus would produce isolated pulmonary artery SpO2 elevation.
What produces a loud holosystolic murmur best heard over the left sternal border in the third or fourth intercostal space.
VSD
What causes a chronic disease that leads to cardiomyopathy, achalasia, megacolon, and megaureter.
Trypanosoma cruzi causes Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis).
What pathogen causes a disease that is typically characterized endoscopically by large, shallow linear ulcerations (most commonly in the distal esophagus) with intranuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions seen microscopically.
CMV
CMV esophagitis
HIV pt. with linear ulcerations on endoscopic findings?
CMV
HIV pt. with small vesicles, “punched-out” ulcers on endoscopy = ?
HSV-1
delirium, tremors, agitation, = ??
Alcohol withdraw
What important vitamin is NOT in breast-milk?
Vitamin D
The filtration fraction always increases with increasing _______________ constriction.
efferent arteriole constriction
The presence of erythroid precursors in organs such as the liver and spleen is indicative of what disease process?
extramedullary hematopoiesis, a condition characterized by erythropoietin-stimulated, hyperplastic marrow cell invasion of extramedullary organs. Extramedullary hematopoiesis is most frequently caused by severe chronic hemolytic anemias, such as β-thalassemia
What never provides sensory innveration to the plantar side of the foot?
Tibial N.
What is the only pathogenic fungus that has a polysaccharide capsule. The capsule appears red on mucicarmine stain and as a clear unstained zone with India ink.
Cryptococcus neoformans
Candida albicans is a normal inhabitant of the _____________ in up to 40% of the population
the GI tract (including the oral cavity)
Type B aortic dissections involving the descending aorta typically originate close to the origin of the __________ artery
left subclavian artery.
Obstructive sleep apnea presents in obese individuals with excessive daytime sleepiness and signs of nocturnal upper airway obstruction (eg, snoring, gasping). The condition is associated with systemic hypertension. Prolonged, untreated obstructive sleep apnea can also cause what?
pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure.
_____________ pulmonary disease is characterized by markedly reduced expiratory airflow velocity, increased residual volume, and limitation of tidal volume due to hyperinflation
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Harse, crescendo-decrescendo systolic ejection murmur at right second intercostal space with radiation to carotids = ?
aortic stenosis.
Communicating hydroceles and indirect inguinal hernias are caused by what???
Communicating hydroceles and indirect inguinal hernias are caused by an incomplete obliteration of the processus vaginalis. The resultant connection between the scrotum and abdominal cavity can allow for fluid leakage (hydrocele) or the passage of abdominal contents (indirect inguinal hernia).
What are the most effective agents for the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia.
Fibrates (eg, fenofibrate) are the most effective agents for the treatment of hypertriglyceridemia.
Binding to mu receptors on the postsynaptic membrane causes opening of __________ channels and membrane ____________.
K+ channels and membrane hyperpolization
Opiate analgesics reduce pain by binding to mu receptors and inhibiting synaptic activity in the central nervous system. Activation of presynaptic mu receptors on the primary afferent neuron leads to closure of voltage-gated calcium channels and reduced excitatory neurotransmitter release. Binding to mu receptors on the postsynaptic membrane causes opening of potassium channels and membrane hyperpolarization.