Pediatric path by BKM Flashcards
Ratio for placentomegaly?
Fetal:placental weight
When do fetal nucleated RBCs appear?
When do they disappear?
Around 8 weeks
12 weeks
When are fetal nucleated red blood cells normal in later development?
Andes mountains and other areas of high elevation
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Amnion nodosum
Associated with oligohydramnios
Leading cause of premature birth?
Acute chorioamnionitis
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Placental listeriosis
Can cause intervillous abscesses and septic infarcts
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Candida: microabscesses on surface of umbilical cord
What are TORCH infections?
Congenitally acquired infections that cause significant morbidity
- Toxoplasma
- Other (syphilis/HIV)
- Rubella
- CMV
- HSV
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CMV villitis (TORCH)
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Placental malaria
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Meconium staining in macrophages
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Maternal atherosis (fibrinoid necrosis) and smooth muscle hypertrophy of maternal spiral arterioles
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Intervillous thrombus (fetomaternal hemorrhage)
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Intervillous thrombus (fetomaternal hemorrhage)
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Massive perivillous fibrin deposition
Associated with HELLP syndrome and recurrent reproductive failure
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Retroperitoneal abruption
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Placental infarction with ghost villi
20-30% is survivable
Over 15% probably maternal hypertension
Over 50%, consider lupus anticoagulant
Four associations with chorangiosis (>10 capillaries in 10 tertiary villi under 10X)
Maternal diabetes
Placentomegaly
Delayed villous maturation
Chronic villitis
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Chorangioma
Most incidental
What is chorangiomatosis?
Diffuse multifocal change associated with extreme prematurity, congential malformations, IUGR, delayed villous maturation, avascular villi
3 pathologic changes in placenta that are associated with fetal neurologic impairment?
Severe chorioamnionitis
Extensive avascular villi
Diffuse chorioamnionic hemosiderosis
___% of babies with a single umbilical artery have associated fetal anomalies?
20
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Choriocarcinoma
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Placental site trophoblastic tumor:
Abnormal proliferation of intermediate trophoblast, most behave benignly. Uterine perforation is the major problem.
Embryo is what period?
4-8 weeks
What is the difference between a malformation and a deformation?
Malformation results from an INTRINSICALLY abnormal developmental process
Deformation is an abnormal shape that results from mechanical forces (like oligohydramnios)
What is the definition of a disruption?
Morphologic defect resulting from extrinsic interference (teratogenic malformation, amniotic band)
Not hereditable but can be genetically predisposed
Features of Beckwidth-Weidemann?
Placentomegaly
Macroglossia
Omphalocele
Wilm’s tumors/hepatoblastoma
Genetic cause of Beckwidth Weidemann?
11p15 Most cases sporadic
Can be rearrangement of gene or uniparental disomy from dad or methylation issue
Inheritance pattern of Alagille’s syndrome?
AD
4 features of Alagille’s Syndrome?
Paucity of bile ducts causing chronic cholestasis
Pulmonary stenosis
Wide nasal bridge and deep set eyes
Developmental delay
Rocker bottom feet associated with which trisomy?
18 (Edwards)
Genetics of Cri-du-chat?
5p-
Three most common abnormalities of embryo?
Neural tube
Cleft lip
Limb defects
What is a choristoma?
Hamartomatous tissue that occurs as heterotopic tissue in a site not native to its site
What percentage of babies with congenital heart defects have additional developmental anomalies?
25-45%
Prune belly syndrome associated with what?
Obstruction/malformation of the urinary tract and bladder
Three leading caues of mortality data <1 year?
Perinatal: IUGR, RDS, birth asphyxia
Congenital anomalies
SIDS
Three leading causes of death in children 1-14 yo?
- Accidents
- Cancer
- Congenital anomalies
Preterm?
> 38 weeks
Large for gestational age?
> 90%ile
Small for gestational age?
<10%ile
What % of newborns have a major malformation?
3%
What transplacental virus is associated with spontaneous abortion or hydrops fetalis?
Parvo B19
Two agents associated with early sepsis?
E. coli
Group B strep
Two agents associated with later sepsis due to long latent period?
Listeria
Candida
What finding is strongly associated with SIDS?
Intrathoracic petechiae (80%)
What condition produces “orange sand in the diaper”?
Leich-Nyhan
X linked
Defect in Lesch Nyhan?
Hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) screws up purine metabolism
Excess uric acid, de novo purine synthesis
Gout, MR, self mutilation
ADA deficiency causes infection with what major infections?
Pseudomonas
Candida
Pneumocystis carinii
Viral
Histologic finding in ADA deficiency?
Virtual absence of lymphoid tissue in nodes, spleen, tonsils, and appendix
3 sphingolipidoses?
Tay sachs
Niemann Pick
Gaucher’s Disease
Tay sachs deficiency?
Accumulated substrate?
Hexosaminidase A
GM2 ganglioside
3 pathologic findings found in Tay Sachs?
Enlarged cerebral gyri, narrowing of sucli
Cerebellar and brain stem atrophy
Ballooning giant neurons
Enzyme deficiency in Niemann Pick disease?
Accumulated substance?
Sphingomyelinase
Sphingomyelin
Three types of Niemann Pick disease?
Type A: Infantile (severe)
Type B: somatic form
Type C: adolescent form
Presentation of Type A Niemann Pick?
Hepatosplenomegaly by 6 months
Cherry red spot on macula
Loss of mental/motor functions
Death by third year
Pathology findings in Niemann Pick disease?
Enlarged foamy macrophages in bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, adrenal, and alveoli of lungs
Deficiency in Gaucher’s disease?
Accumulate substance?
beta glucosidase
Glucocerebroside
Three types of Gaucher’s disease?
I: reticulendothelial storage (80%)
II: Infantile cerebral form
III: Adolescent form
Presentation of Gaucher’s disease?
Hepatosplenomegaly (usually in second decade), bone pain, easy bruising, fever, pneumonia
Pathologic findings in Gaucher’s disease?
Enlarged lipid-laden histiocytes (Gaucher’s cells) throughout the reticuloendothelial system