systemic disease KMK Flashcards
Who is at the highest risk of suicide?
White Middle Aged or Elderly Men
What 3 things are seen in a patient with substance abuse?
- Psychological Dependence: Behavior of needing drug
- Physiological Dependence: Physical Need of the drug to not have withdrawl symptoms
- Drug Tolerance: Need for higher doses to maintain drug effects
Treatments for anxiety include:
- Benzodiazepines
- Antidepressants
- Counseling
Alcoholics are more prone to what 3 things?
- Gallstones
- Alcoholic Hepatitis
- Cirrhosis of the liver
Marasmus
Protein calorie malnutrition and tissue wasting
Kwashiorkor
Protein malnutrition that results in skin lesions, anemia, edema, and liver functions. Presents with a swollen belly on a patient that looks malnourished
Protein encoded gene that has the potential to cause cancer?
Oncogenes
What is the 2nd most common form of skin cancer? What does it result from?
Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Baretts Esophagus) and results from Metaplasia
What is a change from one mature cell type to another due to chronic irritation or a pathogen or carcinogen?
Metaplasia
Final step in dysplasia where growth penetrates the epithelial basement membrane to invade tissue
Invasive Carcinoma (aka cancer)
High grade dysplasia is synonymous with what?
Carcinoma In Situ
aka transformation into a cancerous cell is high
What is considered the earliest form of a pre-cancerous lesion that is recognizable in a biopsy?
Low Grade Dysplasia
Where do sarcomas arise from?
Mesenchymal (connective) tissues
BVs, Heart, Bone
Which of the following skin cancers is a result of metaplasia?
Squamous cell carcinoma
Basal cell carcinoma
Melanoma
Sebaceous gland carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
What can alcohol do to the eye directly?
Can cause a toxic Optic Neuropathy
BITEMPORAL OPTIC NERVE PALLOR
-THIS LEADS TO CENTRAL VISION LOSS IN BOTH EYES
the temporal portion of the optic nerve is responsible for creating the papillomacular bundle.
Is Wernick’es syndrome reversible if given B1?
How about Korsakoff syndrome?
B1 = thiamine
Wernicke’s is reversible
Korsakoff is not reversible.
What eye finding can occur due to Wernicke’s syndrome?
Opthlamoplegia
What Vitamin deficiency causes Wernicke’s?
Lack of Vit. B1 (thiamine)
Review: how to we test for Hepatitis?
-Blood test, will have High AST and High ALT.
-also decrease HgB and Increase bilirubin (due to cirrhosis of the liver and Jaundice)
What 2 systemic conditions can alcoholism cause?
- Hepatitis
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
What does the word dysplasia mean?
Disorganized cell growth.
What does Sarcoma mean?
Comes from connective tissue
i.e. bone tissue
Think of RhabdomyoSARCOMA, I know this means rapid bone destruction and then think of sarcomas as being able to affect any connective tissue.
What does the word carcinoma mean?
Comes from epithelial tissue
i.e. breast tissue
If a pt gets treated with surgery for a parotid gland tumor, which nerve are we concerned about nicking?
Facial Nerve.
Located near the jaw