Pathology 2 Flashcards
What is the most common aminoacidopathy?
phenyketonuria
What is the inheritance of phenylketonuria?
AR
What are hallmark exam findings in PKU? How is it treated?
fair skinned blue eyed kid with musty odor
limit phenylalanine consumption
The aminoacidopathies are generally inherited in _____ fashion.
AR
What is the inheritance of homocystinuria?
AR
What is the deficient enzyme in PKU?
phenylalanine hydroxylase
What is the deficient enzyme in homocystinuria?
cystathionine B-synthase
What is the symptomatology of homocystinuiria?
similar to Marfan’s syndrome, but with mental retardation and increased incidence of stroke, lens dislocations, and arachnodactyly
What is a key finding in maple syrup urine disease?
burned sugar smell in the urine
What’s the inheritance of maple syrup urine disease?
AR
What is the deficient enzyme in maple syrup urine disease?
branched chain a-keto acid dehydrogenase
What is Hartnup disease?
aminoacidopathy, cannot absorb neutral amino acids
develop Niacin deficiency with pellegra like symptoms
The sphingolipidoses are inherited in ______ fashion except for ____, which is _____.
AR
Fabry, XR
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Nieman Pick
Sphingomyelinase
Sphingomyelin
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Gaucher
Glucocerebrosidase
Glucocerebreside
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Fabry
a-galactosidase
ceramides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Tay Sachs
Hexosaminadase
AGM2 gangliosides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
Sandhoff
Hexosaminidase A
BGM2 gangliosides
What enzyme is deficient and what accumulates:
GM1 gangliosidosis
B-galactosidase
GM1 gangliosides
Which sphingolipidoses cause cherry red spots?
Niemann Pick
Tay Sachs
GM1 Gangliosidosis
Gaucher
Which sphingolipidoses affect Ashkenazi Jews?
Niemann Pick
Tay Sachs
What are key findings in Niemann Pick?
cherry red spot, vertical gaze palsy, MR, hepatosplenomegaly
What are Niemann Pick cells?
foamy cells; large vacuolated histiocytes and lymphocytes
What is the most frequent sphingolipidosis?
Gaucher
What are Gaucher cells?
wrinkled tissue paper appearing cells
What are key findings in Gaucher disease?
hypersplenism with anemia and thrombocytopenia
What are key findings in Fabry disease?
painful dysesthesias, vascular disease (Htn, renal, death by MI or stroke in adulthood)
What are key findings in Tay Sachs disease?
MACROcephaly, cherry red spot (NO organomegaly)
What are clinical findings in Sandhoff disease?
similar to tay sachs but has visceral storage
Mucopolysaccharidoses are all _______ inheritance except _____ which is _____.
AR
Hunter, XR
What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Hurler
a-L-iduronidase
Heparan and dermatan
What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Scheie
a-L-iduronidase
Heparan and dermatan
What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Hunter
iduronidase sulfatase
Heparan and dermatan
What is the enzyme deficiency and urine sulfate metabolite for the following: Morquio
B galactosidase
Keratin
What are key features of Hurler’s disease?
gargoyle face, MR, dwarfism, corneal clouding, skeletal abnormalities, thick meninges (can cause spinal cord compression)
What are Zebra bodies?
seen on electron microscopy with Hurler’s disease
What are key features of Scheie?
milder Hurler, no MR
What are key features of Hunter?
milder Hurlery, no MR and less corneal clouding; classic skin pebbling and peripheral nerve entrapment (Carpel tunnel)
Which MPS has the most severe skeletal deformities and ligamentous laxity?
Morquio
Which MPS can have carpel tunnel syndrome?
Hunter, Scheie, Maroteaux Lamy
Which MPS classically has hydrocephalus?
Sly
The leukodystrophies are all _____ inheritance except for _____ which are ____ and _____ which is ____.
AR
Adrenoleukodystrophy and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher, XR
Alexander, sporadic
Which leukodystrophy is associated with Ashkenazi Jews?
Canavan
What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Krabbe
galactocerebroside β-galactosidase
galactocerebroside
What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Metachromatic leukodystrophy
arylsulfatase A
sulfatides
What is the enzyme deficiency and what accumulates: Adrenoleukodystrophy?
ABCD 1
long chain fatty acids
Leukodystrophies have cavitation or degeneration of ______ but spare _____ except for ______ which preferentially targets them.
white matter
subcortical U fibers
Canavan
Which leukodystrophy is associated with adrenal insufficiency and bronze skin?
adrenoleukodystrophy
What CT finding is unique to Krabbe disease?
hyperdense basal ganglia and thalamus
What is seen on histology for Krabbe disease?
Globoid cells; large macrophages around blood vessels
What is the treatment in adrenoleukodystrophy?
Lorenzo oil and diet low in long chain fatty acids
Which leukodystrophy has a Tigeroid pattern on MRI?
Pelizaeus Merzbacher
Alzheimer type II astrocytes are seen in what leukodystrophy?
Canavan
What are the key clinical features of MELAS?
encephalopathy, lacitc acidosis, stroke like episodes with cortical blindnesss
What are the key clinical features with MERRF?
myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers on muscle biopsy
How is Kearns Sayre syndrome inherited?
mitochondrial
Which mitochondrial diseases have ragged red fibers on muscle biopsy?
MERRF and Kearns Sayre
What are key clinical findings in Kearns Sayre?
cardiomyopathy and ophthalmoplegia/retinal issues
What is the inheritance of Lebers hereditary optic neuropathy?
mitochondrial
What are the key clinical findings in levers hereditary optic neuropathy?
progressive painless loss of central visiosn
What is the inheritance of Menke Kinky hair disease?
XR
Menke kinky hair disease is due to a defect in ____ causing decrease in _____.
Copper transporting ATPase
GI absorption of copper
What are the key clinical features of Menke Kinky hair disease?
tortuous vessels, metaphysial spurring, brittle colorless hair growth, seizures, MR
What is the inheritance of Leigh disease?
AR
What is the deficient enzyme in leigh disease?
cytochrome C oxidase
Leigh disease results in ______ leading to diffuse neurologic deficits such as _____.
bilateral symmetric spongiform degeneration and necrosis of the thalamus, basal ganglia, brainstem, and spinal cord with peripheral nerve demyelination
decreased muscle tone and head control, seizures, myoclonus, ophthalmoplegia, and respiratory and swallowing problems
What’s another name for Lowe syndrome? How is it inherited?
XR
oculocerebrorenal syndrome (cataracts, MR, death by renal failure)
What is the inheritance of Lesch-nyhan syndrome? What is the deficient enzyme? What are its key clinical features?
XR
HGPRT
accumulation of uric acid leading to choreoathetosis and self mutilation
What is Zellweger syndrome? What’s another name for it?
XR
Cererbrohepatorenal syndrome (cortical dysgensis, hepatorenal failure)
What neurons are affected first in Hungtinton’s disease?
medium spiny type 1 neurons
What neurotransmitters are affected in Huntington’s disease?
decreased GABA and ACh
increased NE and somatostatin
What is the inheritance of Wilson’s disease?
AR
What chromosome is associated with Wilson’s disease?
Ch 13
What is seen on histology for Wilson’s disease?
Alzheimer type II astrocytes in grey matter, Opalski cells (microglia) in the GP
What is seen on gross pathology of Wilson’s disease?
spongy red degeneration and cavitation of the putamen and GP with occasional atrophy of the superior and middle frontal gyri
How is Wilson’s disease treated?
limit copper food (liver and chocolate), penicillamine, copper chelate
What two disease have neurofibrillary tangles? What’s the difference?
Alzheimers (flamed) and Progressive supranuclear palsy (globose)
What is an key history finding in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy?
multiple falls with poor response to L-DOPA
What is seen on gross pathology with striatonigral degeneration?
atrophic/brown putamen and depigmented SN
What is Hallorvorden Spatz disease?
AR, iron deposition disease atrophic GP and SN leading to extrapyramidal and corticospinal dysfunction
What is the effect of amantadine for Parkinson’s?
increases DA release
Benztropine and trihexylphenidyl are both _____.
antiholinergics
What medication can be used for tremor in parkinson’s disease?
propanolol
______ deep brain stimulation is best for contralateral bradykinesia and tremor.
Subthalmic
Shy Drager syndrome has loss of cells in the ______.
intermediolateral column of the spinal cord and putamen
What is the inheritance of friedreich’s ataxia?
AR
What is the genetics of friedreich’s ataxia?
Ch 9 trinucelotide repeat, Frataxin gene
What is the inheritance of Lafora body disease?
AR
What are the symptoms of Lafora body disease?
myoclonic seizures and dementia
What is seen with Baltic myoclonus? What is the inheritance?
AR
myoclonic seizures with purkinje cell atrophy
Spinal muscular atrophy is defined by degeneration of _____ and sparing of _____.
anterior horn and hypoglossal nuclei
corticospinal and bulbar nuclei
What is the most common SMA?
SMA type 1 (Werdnig Hoffman)
What is the genetics of SMA type 1? What is the inheritance?
AR
Ch 5
Floppy infant syndrome is a result of ____.
SMA type 1
All SMA types have _____ weakness with sparing of the _____.
proximal muscle
eyes
Most ALS cases are sporadic but ____ percent are____ on Ch ____ due to mutation in ______.
10%
AD
Ch 21
superoxide dismutase
What are Bunina bodies?
intracytoplasmic inclusions in ALS in anterior horn cells
How does diphtheria affect myelin?
inhibits Schwann cell myelin synthesis
MS is associated with HLA ___.
DR 2 and DR 4
What is Charcot’s triad? Where is it seen?
nystagmus, scanning speech, intention tremor
MS
B/l intranuclear ophthalmoplegia is pathognomonic for ______.
MS
MS plaques on gross pathology are ____ if older and _____ if acute.
grey
pink
Lymphocytes that are seen in MS are predominantly _____.
T cells
In MS, steroids decrease ______, B-interferon decreases _____, and Copaxone decreases _____.
steroids - attack duration
B-interferon - attack rate
Copaxone - frequency of relapses
What is Margburg variant (acute) MS?
rapidly fatal variant with diffuse large plaques
What microscopic changes are seen at different time intervals in ischemic stroke?
Under 6 hrs: cell swelling and edema
6-12 hrs: shrinking of the cell, incrustations
24 hrs: PMNs accumulate
48 hrs: PMNs peak
3-5 days: macrophages arrive
2 weeks: vessels form around the periphery and enhancement begins
Ischemic penumbra is associated with blood flow between ______.
8-23 mL/100g/minute
What cerebral areas are most susceptible to ischemia?
hippocampus, cortex (parietooccipital deep sulci third, fifth, and sixth layers), basal ganglia (caudate and putamen), and cerebellum (Purkinje cells)
What areas of the hippocampus are most susceptible to ischemia? Most resistant?
CA1 (somner) and CA3 (endplate)
CA2
What is hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy?
due to global hypoperfusion or hypoxia; watershed strokes especially parietooccpital area
symptoms are “man in barrel” syndrome with proximal limb weakness
What is seen on pathology for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy?
laminar necrosis of cortical layers 3,5,6 and putamen
What neurotransmitter has been associated with cellular necrosis after ischemia and with blockage can increase neuronal survival?
glutamate
<p>Atherosclerotic plaques form most commonly at the \_\_\_\_\_\_.</p>
<p>ICA bifurcation and distal basilar artery</p>
<p>The formation of an atherosclerotic plaque is usually initiated by \_\_\_\_\_ leading to increase in \_\_\_\_.</p>
<p>subtle intimal injury
permeability of lipoproteins</p>
<p>What percent of the population has a complete circle of willis?</p>
<p>20%</p>
<p>What is the most common cause of TIA?</p>
<p>platelet–fibrin embolus from an ulcerative atherosclerotic plaque</p>
<p>What is the most cause of death in stroke patients?</p>
<p>MI</p>
<p>What are Gitter cells?</p>
<p>lipid laden macrophages seen on day 5-7 following ischemic stroke</p>
<p>What is pseudolaminar cortical necrosis?</p>
<p>caused by generalized hypoxia; middle cortical layers are affected (layers 3, 5, and 6)</p>
<p>Lacunar strokes count for \_\_\_\_\_\_ percent of strokes.</p>
<p>20</p>
<p>Moyamoya in children usually presents with \_\_\_\_\_ and in adults with \_\_\_\_\_.</p>
<p>ischemia/transient weakness
hemorrhage</p>
<p>Which NF is associated with multi-vascular abnormalities?</p>
<p>NF 1</p>
<p>Klippel Traneuy Weber is associated with what vascular abnormality?</p>
<p>spinal AVMs and carotid aplasia</p>
<p>What is seen on angiogram in fibromuscular dysplasia?</p>
<p>string of beads appearance</p>