Test78: All Flashcards
Absent P waves, narrow QRS complexes, and irregularly irregular R-R intervals?
Atrial fibrillation
Conditions where atria undergo rapid depolarization, what regulates the number of impulses that reach ventricles
AV node refractory period
- also determines ventricular contraction rate
Bundle branch conductivity determines what in EKG
QRS complex
what is the assume pacemaker in patients with severe bradycardia
Purkinje system
Patient with no apparent liver disease who have mild uncojucated hyperbilirubinemia, suggetsts
Gilbert
When does surfactant get made in fetal baby
end of pregnancy
what is a component of surfactant
Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine
- type of lecithin
What ratio indicates mature fetal lungs
lecithin-to-sphingomyelin ratio greater than 1.9
How is betamethasone administration to a pregnant women before 32 weeks delivery do to the baby
accelerates maturation of type II pneumocytes
Chronic lithium toxicity can be caused by what?
- volume depletion
- Thiazide
- Diuretics
- ACE inhibitors
- NSAIDS
Positive and negative predictive values are influenced by what
disease prevalence
Squamous cell carcinoma can produce whwat
HyperCalcemia from PTHrP
Growth hormone causes the release of what from where
Insulin-like growth factor -1 from liver
Laron dwarfism
defective GH receptors
Role of Homeobox genes
- encode DNA-binding transcription
- segmental organization of embryo along crania-caudal axis
Releasing factors recognize what
stop codons and terminate protein synthesis
What are the stop codons
UAA
UAG
UGA
Role of elongation factors
facilitate tRNA binding and translocation steps of protein synthesis
2 year old healthy boy with fever and mouth pain. Swollen gums and vesicular inflamed lesions of hard palate and lips. Enlarged tender cervical lymph nodes. probably has
HSV-1
Genome for HSV-1
Enveloped double stranded DNA
Genome for Adenovirus
non-enveloped double stranded DNA
Single-stranded, non-enveloped DNA
parvovirus
Double-stranded, positive sense, non-envoloped RNA
rotavirus
Genome for Coxsackievirus
- single stranded
- positive sense RNA virus
Difference between Coxsackie and HSV PE on child
HSV involves gums and hard palate not Hand-foot-mouth disease
Which drugs inhibit dihydrofolate reductase
- Trimethoprim
- Methotrexate
- Pyrimethamine
What is Imipenem always given with and why
Cilastatin - inhibits renal dehydropeptidase I
- decrease inactivation of Imipenem
MOA of imipenem
binds penicillin binding proteins
MOA for metronidazole
binds to DNA within susceptible cells
MOA of sulfamethoxazole
competes with PABA in inhibit dihydropteroate syntheses
Fever, cough, rhinorrhea, and conjunctivitis followed by maculoopapular rash that starts on the face and spreads downwards? Tiny white/blue gray lesions on buccal mucosa
Measles
PE for Galactokinase deficiency
- galactose in blood
- galactose in urine
- infantile cataracts
11 year old girl: blurry vision, bilateral lens opacities and reducing substances found in urine. What enzyme is deficient
Galactokinase
lactose is broken down into what
- galactose
- glucose
What causes cataracts in galactokinase deficiency
- galactitol
Aldolase B deficiency can’t metabolize what
fructose
Tay-Sachs disease is a deficiency of what
hexosaminidase A deficiency
Sphingomyelinase deficiency is seen in what disease
Niemann-Pick disease
2-year old boy has giardiasis which is treated. One week later gets frothy, loose, stools and abdominal bloating and cramping. What is the defective enzyme
Lactase
Acidosis stimulates what in the kidney
remal ammoniagensis