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Paediatrics Flashcards

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Chromosomes in Patau’s vs Edwards

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Patau’s - 13
Edward’s - 18

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Features of Patau’s syndrome

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  • Microcephalic
  • Small eyes
  • Cleft lip/palate
  • Polydactylyl
  • Scalp lesions
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Features of Edward’s syndrome

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  • Micrognathia
  • Low-set ears
  • Rocker bottom feet
  • Overlapping of fingers
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Features of Fragile X

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  • Learning difficulties
  • Macrocephaly
  • Long face
  • Large ears
  • Macro-orchidism
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Features of Noonan syndrome

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  • Webbed neck
  • Pectus excavatum
  • Short stature
  • Pulmonary stenosis
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Features of Pierre-Robin syndrome

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  • Micrognathia
  • Posterior displacement of tongue
  • Cleft palate
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Features of Prader-Willi syndrome

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  • Hypotonia
  • Hypogonadism
  • Obesity
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Features of William’s syndrome

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  • Short stature
  • Learning difficulties
  • Friendly, extroverted personality
  • Transient neonatal hypercalcaemia
  • Supravalvular aortic stenosis
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Features of Cri du Chat syndrome

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  • Characteristic cry due to larynx and neurological problems
  • Feeding difficulties and poor weight gain
  • Learning difficulties
  • Microcephaly and micrognathism
  • Hypertelorism
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Hearing test used in newborn screening programme

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Otoacoustic emission test

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Hearing test used in newborns and infants

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Auditory brainstem response test

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Hearing test used at 6-9 months

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Distraction test

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Hearing test used at 18 months - 2.5 years

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Recognition of simple objections, e.g. ‘where is the teddy’

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Hearing test used >2.5 years

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  • Performance testing
  • Speech discrimination testsH
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Hearing test used >3 years

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Pure tone audiometry

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Features of chondromalacia patallae

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  • Common in teenage girls
  • Anterior knee pain on walking up and down stairs and rising from prolonged sitting
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Features of Osgood-Schlatter disease

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  • Seen in sporty teenagers
  • Pain, tenderness, and swelling over tibial tubercle
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Features of osteochondritis dissecans

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  • Pain after exercise
  • Intermittent swelling and locking
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Features of patellar subluxation

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  • Medial knee pain due to lateral subluxation of patella
  • Knee may give way
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Features of patellar tendonitis

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  • More common in athletic teenage boys
  • Chronic anterior knee pain that worsens after running
  • Tender below patella on examination
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Features of DDH

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  • Barlow’s and Ortolani’s positive
  • Unequal skin folds/leg lengths
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Features of transient synovitis

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  • 2-10 years old
  • Acute hip pain associated with viral infection
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Features of Perthe’s disease

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  • 4-8 years old
  • Hip pain developing over few weeks
  • Limp
  • Stiffness and reduced range of movement

10% cases bilateral

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XR changes in Perthe’s disease

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Early changes - widening of joint space
Later changes - decreased femoral head size/flattening

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Features of SUFE

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  • 10-15 years
  • More common in obese children and boys
  • Knee or distal thigh pain
  • Loss of internal rotation of leg in flexion
  • May present following trauma or with chronic, persistent symptoms

20% cases bilateral

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Features of JIA

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  • Joint pain and swelling, usually medium sized joints e.g. knees, ankles, elbows
  • Limp
  • ANA may be positive
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Features of septic arthritis

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  • Acute hip pain
  • Systemic upset, e.g. pyrexia
  • Inability/severe limitation of affected joint
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Poor prognostic factors ALL

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  • Age <2 or >10
  • WBC >20 at diagnosis
  • T or B cell surface markers
  • Non-Caucasian
  • Male sex
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Aortic stenosis associations

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  • William’s syndrome
  • Coarctation of aorta
  • Turner’s syndrome
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Management aortic stenosis in children

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Aim to avoid or delay valve replacement
If gradient >60mmHg, ballon valvotomy may be indicated

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Features of severe asthma attack in children

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  • SpO2 <92%
  • PEF 33-50% best or predicted
  • Too breathless to talk or feed
  • HR >125 in >5 years, >140 in 1-5 years
  • RR >30 in >5 years, >40 in 1-5 years
  • Use of accessory neck muscles
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Features of life-threatening asthma attack in children

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  • SpO2 <92%
  • PEF <33% best or predicted
  • Silent chest
  • Poor resp effort
  • Agitation
  • Altered consciousness
  • Cyanosis
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Initial management of ADHD in primary care

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10 week watch and wait period - see if symptoms change or resolve - if persist, refer to secondary care

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Conservative management ADHD

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Parents attending education and training programmes

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Indications drugs ADHD

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  • Failure to respond to conservative methods
  • Severe symptoms
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First line treatment ADHD

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Methylphenidate

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SEs methylphenidate

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  • Abdominal pain
  • Nausea
  • Dyspepsia
  • Cardiotoxic
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Monitoring methylphenidate

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  • Weight and height monitoring every 6 months
  • ECG at start of treatment
39
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Second line drug ADHD

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Lisdexamfetamine

40
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Metabolic conditions that are X-linked recessive

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  • Hunters
  • G6PD
41
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Metabolic conditions that are autosomal dominant

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  • Hyperlipidaemia type II
  • Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
42
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Structural conditions that are autosomal recessive

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  • Ataxia telangiectasia
  • Friedreich’s ataxiaA
43
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Age benign rolandic epilepsy

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4-12 years

44
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Features benign rolandic epilepsy

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  • Seizures occur at night
  • Typically partial, secondary generalisation may occur
  • Child otherwise normal
45
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EEG benign rolandic epilepsy

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Centrotemporal spikes

46
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Prognosis benign rolandic epilepsy

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Excellent - seizures stop by adolescence

47
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What is caput succedaneum

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Oedema of the scalp at presenting part of head, typically vertex

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Features caput succedaneum

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  • Soft puffy swelling due to localised oedema
  • Crosses suture lines
49
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When does cephalohaematoma develop

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Typically several hours after delivery

50
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Most common site cephalohaematoma

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Parietal region

51
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How long does cephalohaematoma take to resolve

52
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When is chickenpox contagious

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4 days before rash, 5 days after rash first appeared (once all lesions dry and crusted)

53
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Incubation period chickenpox

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10-21 days

54
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Clinical features chickenpox

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Fever initially
Itchy rash starting on head/trunk → spreading. Initially macular → papular → vesicular

55
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Who needs VZIG chickenpox

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  • Immunocompromised
  • Newborns with peripartum exposure
56
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Complications chickenpox

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  • Secondary bacterial infection
  • Pneumonia
  • Encephalitis
  • Disseminated haemorrhagic chickenpox
  • Arthritis
  • Nephritis
  • Pancreatitis
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What increases risk of secondary bacterial infection of chickenpox

58
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Features measles infection

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  • Prodrome of irritability, conjunctivitis, fever
  • Koplik spots (white spots on buccal mucosa)
  • Rash
59
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Features of rash in measles

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Starts behind ears → whole body
Discrete maculopapular rash becoming blotchy and confluent

60
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Features measles

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Fever, malaise, muscle pain
Parotiditis - earache, pain on eating - unilateral → bilateral in 70%
Rash

61
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Features rubella

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Pink maculopapular rash, initially on face → whole body, usually fades by 3-5 day
Lymphadenopathy - suboccipital and postauricular

62
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Cause erythema infectiosum

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Parvovirus B19

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Features erythema infectiosum

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  • Lethargy, fever, headache
  • Slapped cheek rash → proximal arms and extensor surfaces
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Cause scarlet fever

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Reaction to erythrogenimc toxins produced by group A strep

65
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Features scarlet fever

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  • Fever, malaise, tonsillitis
  • Strawberry tongue
  • Rash - fine punctuate erythema sparing area around the mouth (circumoral pallor)
66
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Features hand foot and mouth

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  • Mild systemic upset - sore throat, fever
  • Vesicle sin mouth, and on palms/soles of feet
67
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Cause hand foot and mouth

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Coxsackie A16

68
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Age of presentation coeliac in children

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Usually before age of 3 (following introduction of cereals to diet)

69
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Gene associations coeliac

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HLA-DQ2 and HLA-DQ8

70
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Features congenital diaphragmatic hernia

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  • Pulmonary hypoplasia
  • Pulmonary hypertension

→ resp distress at birth

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Most common acyanotic CHD

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Most common cyanotic CHD

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Tetralogy

TGA more common at birth as presents earlier (ToF 1-2 months)

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Age and consent

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  • Under 16 if meet Fraser guidelines, but cannot refuse treatment deemed in their best interest
  • 16-18 presumed competent to consent to treatment
  • 18+ may consent or refuse
74
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First line management constipation with impaction

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Movicol (polyethylene glycol 3350 + electrolytes) using escalating dose regime

75
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Second line management constipation with impaction

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Add stimulant laxative if disimpaction not achieved in 2 weeks

76
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Treatment constipation without impaction/maint

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Movicol

Add stimulant laxative if no response
Add lactulose or docusate if stools hard

77
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How long to continue laxatives childhood constipation

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Continue at maint dose for several weeks after regular bowel habit established, then gradually reduce dose

78
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Role of dietary interventions in childhood constipation

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Do not use alone as first line treatment

79
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Management constipation in infants <6 months

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  • If bottle fed, extra water between feeds
  • If breastfed, constipation unusual - consider organic causes
80
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Features CMPA

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  • Regurgitation and vomiting
  • Diarrhoea
  • Urticaria, atopic eczema
  • Irritability, crying
  • Wheeze, chronic cough
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Diagnosis CMPA

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Often clinical

Skin prick/patch testing
Total IgE and specific IgE for CMP

82
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First line management CMPA

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