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PATHOLOGY Flashcards

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Explain the flow volume loops of obstructive and restrictive respiratory diseases.
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What is the FVC, FEV1 and FEV1/FVC in restrictive lung disease?

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Causes of restrictive lung disease

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Caracteristics of poor breathing mechanics:
A-a gradient and causes:

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Honeycomb lung appearance. Characteristic of interstitial lung disease.

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What is DLCO? What causes a normal and low DLCO? What is normal?

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70 a 140% and severe disease is les 40%

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What are causes of restrictive pulmonary disease?

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  1. Poor breathing tecnica
  2. Interstitial pulmonary disease
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Name the Pneumoconiosis. Pulmonary pathology. Complications

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  1. Coal dust lungs. Upper lungs
  2. Asbestosis: Lower lobes. Shipbuilding, roofing, plumbing. Pleural plaques and lung cancers
  3. Silicosis: Upper lobes. Silica Quartz, metal production facilities. TB and bronchogenic carcinoma. EGGSHELL CALCIFICATION OF LYMPH NODES
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Name the two cancers associated with asbestosis

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Talk about hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Causes and type of hypersensitivity

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Natural history of lobar pneumonia. Phase, days and cells.

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Types of pneumonia and etiologic agent.

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  1. Lobar: S. Pneumonie
  2. Bronchopneumonitis: S. Aures
  3. Interstitial: Viruses and Atypical bacteria
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  1. Lobar: S. Pneumonie
  2. Bronchopneumonitis: S. Aures
  3. Interstitial: Viruses and Atypical bacteria
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Name the common causes of pneumonia per age.

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Name the etiology per special group for pneumonia

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Explain the physiopathology of ARDS?

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Triggers for ARDS?

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Legionella symptoms of pneumonia.

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  1. Mild Pneumonia
  2. GI symptoms
  3. Hyponatremia
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Special bug mycoplasma pneumonia caracteristics:

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  • Has no wall it cannot be stain.
  • Military recruits and residents dorms
  • Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
  • Steven johnson syndrome
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First word that comes in mind with influenza virus:

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SECUNDARY PNEUMONIA

S. Pneumonia, H. Influenzae

Worsening of symptoms after initial improvement.

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Owl eye intranuclear inclusions is from …………………

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citomegalovirus

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Characteristics of Syncytial respiratory virus.

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  • Common cause of bronquilitis, pneumonia in kids
  • Stational from november to april
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Who is the terrible etiology in pneumonia?

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Talk about Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia:

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  1. Immunocompromised
  2. It cannot be stain
  3. Special: Silver
  4. 1st line Treatment: TMP SMX
  5. Prophylaxis: Less than 200 cells CDA
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Types of pneumothorax:

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Treatment of pneumothorax: And why?

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Air space filled, remembering air is oxyegn and nitrogen. If you administer 100% oxygen the capillaries will absorb more nitrogen because of the gradient.

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Types of pleural effusion, causes.

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Transudative: Low oncotic pressure, high hydrostatic pressure. Hearth failure, cirrhosis, nephrotic syndrome.

Exudative: Damage to the capillaries. Pneumonia or malignancy.

Lymphatic: Injury to the thoracic duct. Malignancy, trauma cx. Milky appearance. high levels of trigliceridos.

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How to differentiate a transudative from a exudative effusion:

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What is mesothelioma, risk factor

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Causes of Chayne Stoke respirations:

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Hearth failure and stroke

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………………….. Protein abnormal in cystic fibrosis

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CFTR: Cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator

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What is the CFTF? What type pf transporter is? Where can we find it? What does it does in each site?

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……………… The common mutation in CF

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DELTA F508

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What does it really means that their is a mutation in CFTR?

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  • Abnormal protein folding
  • Prevents protein trafficking ro correct site
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What features I find in CF

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Chronic pancreatitis

Diabetes mellitus asociated chronic pancreatitis

Biliary disease

95% infertile. absent vas deferent

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…………………….. most common pathogen in CF

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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……………………. diagnosis of CF

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Sweat chloride test.

High chloride level

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Treatment of CF

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……………………….. is the responsable for M. tuberculosis for not stain

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Mycolic Acid in the cell wall

40
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Name the virulence factors of mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis is a ……………………………. hypersensibility reaction.

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Type 4 cell mediated reaction.

Activates Th1 …..CD4…..T cells

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Granulomas Inflammation can be ………………. such as TB or ………………… such as sarcoidosis,

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TB: Caseating granulomas

Sarcoidosis: Non caseating granulomas

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Langhans giangt cell. TB granuloma

HORSE SHOE!!

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Hilar lymphadenopathy. Primary TB

45
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What is the ghon foci, where is located and what stage of TB we can find it? What is the ghon complex?

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What is PPD? What and when is it measure? When is it positive?

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PURIFIED PROTEIN DERIVATED

INDURATION NOT REDNESS

47
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Causes of false negative in PPD test

48
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Mechanism of action of the TB drugs

49
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Adverse effects of isoniazid and its mechanism of resistance

50
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Why isoniazid gives neurotoxicity?

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It competes with B6 as a cofactor in the synthesis of neurotransmitters

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Non caseating granuloma.

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………………………………. key players in sarcoidosis.

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CD4, IL-2 e IFN y

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What systems are affected in sarcoidosis. (5)

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  1. Lungs:
  2. Skin: Erythema nudosum
  3. Eye: Uveitis
  4. Heart: Block electrical signals or pericarditis
  5. SNC: Bell palsy or neurosarcoid
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2 cute characteristics of sarcoidosis

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Treatment for sarcoidosis

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Causes of hypercoagulability?

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Causes of hypercoagulability?

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  1. Contraceptive use
  2. Factor V leiden
58
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Name the more common sites where emboli arise:

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  1. Iliac veins
  2. Femoral
  3. Popliteal veins
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…………………………… imaging test of choice for deep vein trombosis

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Doppler compression ultrasound

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…………………… imaging test of choise in PE

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CT angiography

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What is the air emboli and causes?

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Nitrogen bubbles precipitate in ascending divers, treat with hyperbaric O2.

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Pulmonary embolism

63
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………………………. calf pain with dorsiflexion of foot.

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homans sign

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PULMONARY EMBOLISM

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What is the fat embolism syndrome

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  1. Resperatory
  2. Neurologic
  3. Petechiae

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