Q Banks: Week of 03/27/17 # 2 Flashcards
If a man can get an erection but not maintain it, then he likely has ________________ erectile dysfunction.
psychogenic
Don’t be tricked into picking physiologic if they give you red herrings like diabetes or stroke.
How does AMP affect glycogen phosphorylase?
It is an allosteric activator.
What are catabolite activators?
Transcription factors that activate genes in response to metabolic activity
What is tactile fremitus and how is it used?
Tactile fremitus is vibration felt on the chest wall while the person is speaking.
It is decreased in pleural effusion, pneumothorax, and COPD.
It is increased in pneumonia.
Hyperresonace occurs in which lung disorders?
Emphysema and pneumothorax
Which lung disorders present with decreased breath sounds?
- COPD
- Pneumothorax
- Pleural effusion
- Bronchial occlusion
- Atelectasis
True or false: dullness to percussion can be found in atelectasis.
True!
Describe the role that each of the following nerves plays in micturition:
•Hypogastric
•Pelvic
• Pudendal
- Hypogastric: sympathetic to detrusor and internal urethral sphincter (“You need a lot of GAS if you’re in flight or fight.”)
- Pelvic: parasympathetic to detrusor and internal urethral sphincter (“The PElvic makes you PEe.”)
- Pudendal: volUNtary to external urethral sphincter
High levels of ________________ in the nephron prevent formation of kidney stones.
citrate
Citrate binds to calcium and does not form stones, so it helps shuttle excess calcium out of the kidney. In fact, potassium citrate can be given to help treat recurrent kidney stones.
BK virus causes ________________.
hemorrhagic cystitis and nephropathy in immunocompromised individuals (fountain peeing in the Sketchy scene)
EBV can cause what cancers in those with AIDS?
CNS lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma
True or false: head bobbing is seen in those with aortic stenosis.
False. It is seen in those with aortic regurgitation.
Other signs of AR include bounding femoral pulses and a blowing diastolic murmur best heard at the lower-left sternal border.
Why does CCl4 damage the liver?
It gets oxidized by CYP450 and causes free radical damage.
Fever, anorexia, and dark urine are signs of what viral infection?
HAV
Describe the histologic signs of HAV.
“Spotty” –i.e., not widespread –ballooning degeneration of hepatocytes with inflammatory infiltrate
LDH will be elevated in those with what histologic sign of ovarian cancer?
Dysgerminoma with “fried egg” cells
True or false: all ovarian cancers secrete CA-125.
False. Only epithelial.
Other than VEGF, _________ is an important stimulator of endothelial cell formation.
FGF
Why does oxygen supplementation cause damage to the retinas of newborns?
For some reason, hyperoxia causes neovascularization in the retina which increases likelihood of retinal detachment.
What wrist sign is typical of rheumatoid arthritis?
Ulnar deviation
Healed areas of necrosis in the brain are lined with _______________.
astrocytes
How does aflatoxin cause HCC?
Aflatoxin B1 causes mutations in p53.
Non-bacterial endocarditis – characterized by sterile, platelet-rich thrombi –can be found in advanced ____________.
malignancy
It’s thought that adenocarcinomas secrete mucin into the bloodstream which damages endothelium and leads to widespread coagulation.
Hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis and cystic dilation of the fourth ventricle is called ______________.
Dandy-Walker malformation
The other disorder you’re likely to mistake for this is Chiari II malformations (also called Arnold-Chiari malformations), but DW will definitely be symptomatic early on, whereas Chiari II presents later.