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What is the equation for specificity?

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True negatives / true negative + false positive

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What is the formula for sensitivity?

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True positives / true positives + false negatives

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What is the probability that a test will produce a true negative result when used on a population without disease?

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Specificity

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What is the probability that a test will produce a true positive result when used on a population with the disease?

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Sensitivity

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What is the probability that someone who had the disease will test positive?

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Positive predictive value

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What is the equation for positive predictive value?

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True positive / true positive + false positive

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What is the probability that someone who does NOT have a disease will have a negative test result?

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Negative predictive value

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What is the equation for negative predictive value?

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True negative / true negative + false negative

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What does the P value respresent?

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The chance that the null hypothesis was rejected in error

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What P value is significant enough to reject the null hypothesis?

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<0.05

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What type of error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected in error?

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Type 1

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What type of error occurs when the null hypothesis was NOT rejected but the null hypothesis is not true?

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Type 2

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What number is obtained by adding the sample values and dividing by the size of the sample?

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Mean

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What number is the middle value in which half the data is larger and the other have is smaller?

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Median

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What is the most frequently occurring number in a sample?

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Mode

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What type of study follows persons with risk factors to determine the outcomes?

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Cohort study

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What type of study examined those with a disease and then checks for common risk factors?

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Case control study

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What is an analysis of data from several studies?

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Meta analysis

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Is a 15 y/o who has a child and lives on her own considered an emancipated minor?, why?

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No - must be older than 16

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In a comatose infant, what two lab values are most important in diagnosing inborn error of metabolism ?

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Ammonia and anion gap

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What inborn errors of metabolism should you consider in a patient with high ammonia and no acidosis?

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Urea cycle defect or transient hyperammonemia

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What inborn errors of metabolism would you consider in a patient with high ammonia and metabolic acidosis?

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Propionic acidemia
Methylmalonic acidemia
Fatty acid oxidation defects

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What inborn error of metabolism would you consider in a child with normal serum ammonia and metabolic acidosis?

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Maple syrup urine disease

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What inborn errors of metabolism would you consider in a patient with normal ammonia and normal abg?

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Aminoacidopathy
Galactosemia
Non Ketotic hyperglycinemia

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What is the appropriate treatment in a comatose infant with high ammonia ?

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If >200, reduce ammonia with benzoate and phenylacetate

If >600, dialysis

25
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What is the normal serum ammonia value in a newborn?

26
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What is the best initial study in a 2 day old infant with acidosis, kerosine and high ammonia?

A

Measure urine organic acids

27
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What should be the first study in an infant who presents with the appearance of sepsis but no fever or other signs of infection?

A

Serum ammonia level

28
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What is the first step in managing a patient with organic acidemia?

29
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When would organic acidemias present?

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First 2 days of life after introduction of protein in the diet

30
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What are the similarities and difference between organic acidemias and brain tumors?

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Both have decreased appetite, falling down and delayed milestones but brain tumors would progressively worsen

31
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What happens to the CBC in patients with metabolic acidosis?

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Suppression of bone marrow with low platelets and WBC count

32
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What condition should you expect in an infant with poor feeding, seizure and odor that smells of sweaty feet ?

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Isovaleric acidemia

33
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What is the appropriate treatment for isovaleric acidemia?

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Protein restriction

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What are the symptoms of Propionic acidemia?

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Tachypnea, poor feeding and lethargy

35
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What is the treatment for methylmalonic acidemia?

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Vitamin b12

36
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How are fatty acid oxidation defects inherited ?

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Autosomal recessive

37
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What would you consider in a patient who had a brief episode of illness and decreased PO intake followed by hypoglycemia and hepatoma halt?

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Fatty acid oxidation defects

38
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What lab findings would you suspect in a child with defects in fatty acid metabolism?

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Absence of reducing substances and ketones in the urine

Normal serum amino acids

39
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What is the test for definitive diagnosis of fatty acid oxidation defects?

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Plasma acylcarnitine profile

40
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What is the treatment for urea cycle defects?

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Reduce serum ammonia by reducing protein intake and increasing glucose via IV

41
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Which metabolic disorders do NOT present with hepatomegaly?

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Organic acid defects
Hyperinsulinism
Urea cycle defects

42
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Which syndrome should you consider in a patient with hypotonia, dysmorphic features but NO high ammonia?

A

Zellweger syndrome

43
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If an infant presents with signs of inborn error of metabolism but has ketonuria, what disease could you rule out?

A

Urea cycle defects

44
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What should you consider in a patient with elevated ammonia, hypotonia and coma but no acidosis?

A

Urea cycle defect

45
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What would you suspect in a patient who is normal at birth but then develops poor feeding, abdominal distention, hypoglycemia and gram negative sepsis?

A

Galactosemia

46
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What laboratory finding would you expect in galactosemia?

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Non glucose reducing substances in the urine

47
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How is definitive diagnosis of galactosemia made?

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Measuring GALT in RBCs (will be deficient)

48
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How are children with galactosemia treated?

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Galactose free diet

49
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What complications can arise with untreated galactosemia?

A

cataracts, intellectual disability or liver disease

50
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What should you suspect in a child with seizures after each meal?

A

Inherited fructose intolerance

51
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What is the duarte variant?

A

Infants with half the normal amount of GALT…newborn screen may be positive but require more specific testing

52
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What is the drug of choice in refractory hypoglycemia in infants?

53
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How would you know the difference between Hyperinsulinism and adrenal insufficiency?

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Both have hypoglycemia but adrenal insufficiency does NOT have ketonuria

54
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Why do children with beckwith wiedemann syndrome develop hypoglycemia?

A

Islet cell hyperplasia

55
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What should you suspect in a patent with lactic acidosis, alopecia and rash as well as neurological signs?

A

Biotinidase deficiency

56
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Which amino acids are elevated in maple syrup urine disease?

A

Valine
Isoleucine
Alloisoleucine (not normal in infants)
Leucine

57
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What is the most useful test in an infant with hypoglycemia, seizures and hepatomegaly ?

A

Urine ketones and reducing substances

58
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What should you consider in an infant with tachypnea, shallow breathing, lethargy and hypertonicity?

A

Maple syrup urine disease

59
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What is the treatment of alcaptonuria?

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Diet low in phenylalanine and tyrosine

60
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What condition results in dark sclerae, cartilage, sweat, cerumen and urine?

A

Alcaptonuria

61
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What causes dark urine in patients with alcaptonuria ?

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Homogentisic acid in urine

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