Quiz 59 Flashcards

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What type of bone lesions are seen in prostate cancer?

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Ostoblastic

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What type of bone lesions are seen in multiple myeloma?

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Osteolytic lesions

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What is defective in chronic granulomatous disease?

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NADPH oxidase

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What disease has a defect in NADPH oxidase?

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chronic granulomatous disease

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Young child presents with history of multiple boils, what disease are you concerned about?

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Chronic granulomatous disease

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What test can you use in chronic granulomatous disease?

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Nitroblue tetrazolium test (NBT)

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When do you see a positive NBT test?

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Normal situation - will see blue

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When do you see a negative NBT test?

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Chronic granulomatous disease

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What disease has anti-mitochondrial antibodies?

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Primary biliary cirrhosis

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What disease has anti-smooth muscle antibodies?

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Autoimmune hepatitis

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What antibodies are seen in Churg-Strauss?

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P-ANCA

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What nerve supplies the posterior compartment of the leg?

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Tibial nerve

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Ash leaf spots and shagreen patches are seen in what disease?

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Ash leaf - hypopigmented patches and shagreen patches - leathery skin patches are seen in tuberous sclerosis

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Young patient presents with cardiac rhabdomyoma and cortical hamartomas, what disease could this be?

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Tuberous sclerosis

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What is the inheritance pattern of tuberous sclerosis?

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Autosomal dominant

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What is the most commmon catheter associated UTI?

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E. Coli

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Punctate granulations in enlarged erythrocytes containing oval bodies is also know as what?

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Schuffner dots

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When does one see schuffner dots?

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Malaria?

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What malaria infections can cause relapses?

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P. Vivax and P. Ovale

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Where do P. Vivax and P. Ovale lay dormant?

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Liver

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What is the dormant form of P. Ovale and P. Vivax called?

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Hypnozoite

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Where does one get an infection with P. Vivax?

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Western hemisphere (panama)

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If a patient becomes infected with malaria while in panama, what organism are they infected with?

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P. Vivax - only one in the western hemisphere

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What drug resistance for anti-malarial is seen in Panama?

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Chloroquine

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What portion of the duodenum is not in the retroperitoneum?
Proximal duodenum
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When sense the increased stretch in tendon reflex?
Spindle afferents
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What inhibits muscle contraction in response to excessive stretch?
Golgi tendon organ
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What is hypertelorism?
Increased distance between two organs/body parts - eg the eyes
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What is the chromosomal defect in DiGeorge syndrome?
Deletion of chromosome 22
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What signs and symptoms are seen in DiGeorge syndrome?
Cardiac abnormalities, abnormal facies (hypertelorism), thymic aplasia (immunodef.), cleft palate, hypocalcemia
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In hyper-IgM syndrome, what is the defect?
Defect in surface protein CD40L
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What immunoglobulins are reduced in ataxia-telangiectasia syndrome?
IgE and IgA
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What disease does one see capillary distortions in the conjuctiva, gait abnormalities and reduced IgA and IgE?
Ataxia-telangiectasia
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What is Conn syndrome?
Primary hyperaldosteronism
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When do you see Conn syndrome?
Usually results from adrenal tumor that secretes excessive aldosterone
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What is the cause of hyperacute rejection and in what time frame do you see this?
Caused from preformed antibodies (or compliment); seen in minutes to hours
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What is the cause of acute rejection and when do you see it?
Caused by normal humoral/cell-mediated immune responses against foreign MHC molecules in the graft (T cell mediated); seen within days to weeks
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Aortic dissection is due to what underlying condition?
Uncontrolled HTN
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Sharp tearing chest pain that radiates to back
Aortic dissection
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What is the underlying cause of AAA?
Atherosclerosis
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What is Hgb A?
Two alpha chains and two beta chains
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What is hemoglobin F?
Two alpha chains and two gamma chains
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What is HbA2?
Two alpha chains with two delta chains
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What Hgb is increased and decreased in Beta-thalassemia minor?
Increased HbA2, low HbA due to decreased beta chain
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What Hgb is increased and decreased in Beta-thalassemia major?
Decreased HbA, increased HbF, can see increased HbA2
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What is the predominant Hgb after 6 months of age?
Hemoglobin A - alpha2beta2
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Immunocompromised patient with ring enhancing lesion on brain CT?
Toxoplasmosis - due to reactivation of latent infection
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Venous stasis can cause ulcers where?
Just above the medial malleolus
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Ulcer above the medial malleolus is seen when?
Venous stasis - due to CHF, venous valvular incompetence
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Where do ulcers from PVD occur?
Usually at terminal arterial branches, tips of toes and at bony prominences
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What does CCK do the gallbladder?
Contraction
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What results from leukocyte adhesion deficiency?
Failure of leukocyte to diapedesis into area of injury; resulting in recurrent, chronic bacterial infections
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Inability to form pus of abscess is the hallmark of what disease?
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
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What is the inheritance pattern for leukocyte adhesion deficiency?
Autosomal recessive
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What is absent in leukocyte adhesion deficiency?
CD18 beta-2 subunits (the common beta-2 chain) of integrin molecules
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Defect in beta-2 integrins results in what?
Leukocyte adhesion def.
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Deficiency in CD11/CD18 family results in what immunodef?
Leukocyte adhesion def.
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If newborn has delayed umbilical cord separation, what immunodef. Are you thinking about?
Leukocyte adhesion def
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What is elevated in the blood of a patient with leukocyte adhesion def?
Neutrophils - have extreme neutrophilia
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What is neutrophil cytochrome B and when may it be deficient?
Part of the NADPH oxidase; may be deficient in chronic granulomatous disease
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6 month old girl, regressing motor abilities, blindness, no hepatomegaly, retinal pallor except in area of macula
Tay-Sachs
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What is the inheritance pattern of Tay-Sachs?
AR
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What enzyme is defective in Tay-Sachs?
Hexosaminidase A
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Accumulation of what is seen in Tay-Sachs?
Ganglioside GM2
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Deficiency in arylsulfatase A is seen in what disease?
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
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What enzyme is deficient in metachromatic leukodystrophy?
Arylsulfatase A
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What enzyme is deficient in Fabry disease?
Alpha-galactosidase A
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What is the inheritance pattern of Fabry disease?
X - linked
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What accumulates in Fabry disease?
Ceramide trihexoside
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What disease occurs when there is a deficiency in alpha-galactosidase A?
Fabry disease
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Accumulation of ganglioside GM2 is seen in what disease?
Tay-Sachs
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Deficiency in glucocerebrosidase is seen in what disease?
Gaucher disease
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Whorl-like corneal dystrophy, heart problems, renal failure, angiokeratoms, and GI sxs are seen in what lysosomal disease?
Fabry disease
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What enzyme is deficient in Niemann-Pick disease?
Sphingomyelinase
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Accumulation of sphingomyelin is seen in what lysosomal storage disease?
Niemann-Pick
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Accumulation of glucocerebroside is seen in what disease?
Gaucher
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Cherry-red spots with HSM is seen in what lysosomal disease?
Infantile form of Gaucher disease and Niemann-Pick disease
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What enzyme is defective in I cell disease?
N-acetylglucosaminyl-1-phosphotransferase
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What is the presentation of I cell disease?
Coarse facial features, skeletal abnormalities, hepatomegaly, cardiomegaly, FTT
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A defect in N-acetylglucosaminyl-1-phosphotransferase results in what disease? What process is inhibited?
I cell disease; inability to phosphorylate at the 6th carbon - low mannose-6-phosphate
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What antibodies are seen in Hashimotos thyroiditis?
Thyroid peroxidase (microsomal antigen), thyroglobulin, TSH receptor
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What region of the GI tract does E. histolytica invade the most?
Cecum and ascending colon
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How do patients with E. histolytica present?
Blood and pus in stool; liver abscess (anchovi paste)
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Nuclei with central karyosomes
E. Histolytica
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Nuclei with distinctive rods and granules of chromatin in a patient with diarrhea
E. Histolytica
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What aortic arch is responsible for ductus arteriosus?
6th
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What does the 6th branchial arch give rise to?
Proximal pulmonary arteries and ductus arteriosus (left only)
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The artery of the third branchial arch gives rise to what?
Common carotid and proximal internal carotid arteries
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What does the fourth branchial arch give rise to?
On the right - proximal subclavian artery; on the left - aortic arch
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At what vertebral level does the celiac artery branch from the aorta?
T12
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The celiac artery supplies what embryonic germ layer?
Foregut of endodermal organs, but also the spleen (mesodermal origin)
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What organ is supplied by the celiac artery but is from mesodermal origin?
Spleen
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Accumulation of ganglioside in the retina with foveal sparing is seen in what disease?
Tay - Sachs; describing cherry red spot
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Infant presenting with white pupillary reflex - what are three common causes?
Retinoblastoma, cataracts, retinal vascular hyperproliferation and scarring due to retinopathy of prematurity
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What HLA are associated with T1D?
HLA-DR3, HLA-DR4
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HLA-B27 is associated with what disease(s)?
Ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, IBD associated arthritis, reactive arthritis
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What is prosopagnosia?
Inability to recognize faces
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Infarcts in what region and by what artery can cause prosopagnosia?
Infarct in posterior cerebral artery on non-dominant (usually right) side
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Infarct in the region of the PCA on the non-dominant side of the brain can lead to what phenomenon?
Prosopagnosia - inability to recognize faces
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A lesion in Wernicke's area in dominant lobe leads to what type of aphasia?
Receptive aphasia - cannot comprehend spoken language and their speech is fluent but lacks meaning
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Patient does not seem to comprehend what you are saying and speaks fluently but makes no sense, what type of lesion do you think they have?
Wernicke - receptive aphasia
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Where is Wernicke's area?
Superior temporal gyrus of temporal lobe
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Where is Broca's area?
Inferior frontal gyrus of frontal lobe
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Patient with lesion in Broca's area has what type of aphasia?
Expressive - comprehension is intact, but speech is nonfluent (making the patient frustrated)
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What is Gerstmann syndrome?
Cannot comprehend written language (alexia), nor can they write (agraphia); also have acalculia, finger agnosia, right-left disorientation
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A cleft lip results when what fails to fuse?
Lateral maxillary prominence fails to fuse with the medial nasal prominences
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A cleft palate results when what fails to fuse?
Palatine shelves (maxillary prominences) fail to fuse with each other, or with the primary palate (medial nasal prominences)
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Thyroid FNA shows large numbers of lymphocytes and a few abnormal follicular cells with eosinophilic granular cytoplasm, what is the diagnosis?
Hashimotos; has lymphocytic infiltrate with germinal centers and Hurthle cells
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Patients with Hashimoto's are at increased risk for what cancer?
Non-Hodgkin B cell lymphoma - specifically marginal zone lymphoma
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What is seen on FNA of a patient with Hashimotos?
Lymphocytic infiltrate, germinal centers, Hurthle cells (eosinophilic granular cytoplasm that line follicles)
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What three diseases, if untreated, can result in non-Hodgkins B cell lymphoma - marginal zone lymphoma?
Sjogrens, chronic H pylori gastritis, Hashimotos; specifically marginal zone lymphoma
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Patients with Down syndrome are at increased risk for what cancer?
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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What type of lung cancer can give rise to lambert-eaton myasthenic syndrome?
Small cell lung cancer
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What do you expect the results of edrophonium challenge to be in a patient with lambert eaton myasthenic syndrome?
Some improvement (vs. myasthenia gravis profound impovement)
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Lambert eaton is due to autoantibodies against what?
Presynaptic voltage gated calcium channels
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In myasthenia gravis, what are the autoantibodies against?
Postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor - these are ligand-gated ion channels
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Weakness that is worse with inactivity and improves after exertion is seen in what neuromuscular disorder?
Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
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Rouleaux formation is seen in what disease?
Multiple myeloma
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Patient with hemoptysis and hematuria may have what autoimmune disease?
Goodpastures
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What are the symptoms of Goodpastures?
Hemoptysis and hematuria
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What are the antibodies against in Goodpastures?
Type IV collagen
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What type of HSR is Goodpastures?
Type II cytotoxic
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Anti-mitochondrial antibodies are seen in what disease?
Primary biliary cirrhosis
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What type of antibodies are seen in primary biliary cirrhosis?
Anti-mitochondrial
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Anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies are seen in what disease?
These are p-ANCA antibodies; seen in Churg-Strauss
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What are the symptoms of Churg-Strauss?
Hematuria, asthma, peripheral eosinophilia, GI tract hemorrhage
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Anti-proteinase 3 antibodies are seen in what disease?
These are c-ANCA antibodies - seen in granulomatosis with polyangiitis
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What is the only humoral immune deficiency in which there are no peripheral immature and mature B cells?
Bruton X linked agammaglobulinemia
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How does Bruton agammaglobulinemia classically present?
Increased susceptibility to encapsulated organisms - S pneumo, H influ, pseudomonas - recurrent otitis media, sinopulmonary sxs
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Absence of CD19+ cells, but presence of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+ cells?
No immature or mature B cells - bruton x linked agammaglobulinemia
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Bruton X linked agammaglobulinemia results in a mutation in what?
Tyrosine kinase
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Absence of CD40L results in what disease?
Hyper-IgM syndrome
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Deficiency in CD18 results in what disease?
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency
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What is the defect in leukocyte adhesion deficiency?
Defect in LFA-1 integrin (CD18)
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Metformin can cause what rare side effect?
Lactic acidosis
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What patients should metformin be avoided? Why?
Patients with renal insuff. Heart failure; due to lactic acidosis
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Infant with elevated ammonia and urine orotic acid, but decreased citrulline is deficient in what enzyme?
Ornithine transcarbamylase
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What does ornithine transcarbamolyse do?
Takes carbamoyl phosphate and ornithine to make citrulline
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What enzyme is responsible for making citrulline in the urea cycle? What are it's substrates?
Ornithine transcarbamylase; substrates: ornithine, carbamoyl phosphate
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What is elevated in the urine of a patient with deficiency in ornithine transcarbamylase? Why?
Orotic acid is elevated in the urine; excess carbamoyl phosphate is converted to orotic acid via pyrimidine synthesis pathway
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What is the inheritance pattern of ornithine transcarbamylase def?
X linked recessive
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Urea cycle deficiencies follow what type of inheritance pattern? What is the exception?
All are AR except OTC def is X linked
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What is the rate limiting step of the urea cycle?
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I
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Deficiency in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase and ornithine transcarbamolyase can be differentiated how?
No orotic aciduria in CPS I def vs. OTC def has orotic aciduria
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Patient with elevated serum ammonia and elevated serum glutamine, orotic aciduria is seen in what disease?
Ornithine transcarbamylase def.
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Patient with hyperammonemia, elevated blood glutamine, no orotic aciduria is seen in what disease?
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase