Uworld Q Flashcards
Amatoxins are found In mushrooms and cause what symptoms? Complications? What is the MOA of these toxins?
Symptoms start within 6-24 hrs —> abdominal pain, vomiting severe (cholera like diarrhea) Complications? —> hepatic failure or renal failure Potent inhibitors of RNA polymerase 2 (halt mRNA synthesis)
Ricin toxin MOA?
Inhibits protein synthesis by cleaning the r RNA component of the eukaryotic 60s subunit
The metabolism of ethanol results in hypoglycemia, this is a result of inhibition of what metabolic process?
What is the reasoning behind this?
Gluconeogenesis
Ethanol metabolism by alcohol dehydrogenase & acetaaldehyde dehydrogenase reduced NAD + to NADH. Increases the NADH/NAD+ radio. This inhibits all pathways requring NAD+.

Disease Incidence Definition:
Disease Prevalence Definition:
Which one is dependent on the other and what is the equation?
Case examples:
- Improved quality of care would result in what effect on indicidence + prevalence?
Incidence is the number of new cases diagnosed in a population in a given time perido
Prevalence is the total number of disease individuals in the population at a particular point.
Prevalence = (indicidence) X (duration of disease)
- Increase in just prevalence & constant incidence. Factors that prolong disease duration can increase prevalence because lower mortality in diabetics = more prevalence over time.
Base excision repair is used to _________ induced spontaneously or by exogenous chemicals.
What are the enzymatic steps of this process?
1,2,3,4,5,
correct single-base DNA defects
Examples of alterations fixed by DNA repair are depurination, alkylation, oxidation and deamination,
- Glycosylase: cleaves altered base leaving AP site
- Endonuclease: cleaves 5’ end
- Lyase: completes extraction of 3’ sugar-Pi
- Polymerase: fills the single nucleotide gap
- Ligase: seals the nick
what bacteria causes this?

CLOSTRIDIUM Dificile exotoxin B
- Colonic mucosa responds to toxin exposure by forming white, patch pseudomembranes, which consist of Neutrophil predominant infiltrate, fibrin, bacteria and necrotic epithelium
Pts with severe disease may develop nonobstructive toxic megacolon àleads to perforation (abdominal pain, fever, diarrhea
Key Side effects of Anti Psychotic Drugs:
What are the 3 Extra-Pyramidal side effects? What are the differences between them?
Explain Tardive Dyskinesia
What are the main symptoms of Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
- Acute Dystonia: Sudden onset, sustained muscle contractions of neck, mouth, tongue or eye muscles
- Akathisia: subjective restlessness with inability to sit still
- Drug-induced Parksonism: Tremor, Rigidity, Bradykinesia, masked facies
Tardive Dyskinesia: involuntary movements after chronic use (lip smacking, choreoathetoid movements)
NMS: Fever, rigidity, Mental status change, autonomic instability(sympathetic hyper actvity –> sweat, Inc HR)

Exercise Phsyology:
Cardiac Output (Increased/Decreased)
LV-EDP (Increased/Decreased)
Pulmonary A. Systolic P (Increased/Decreased)
Systemic Systolic BP (Increased/Decreased)
Total Systemic Vascular resistance (Increased/Decreased)
Cardiac Output (Increased/Decreased)
LV-EDP (Increased/Decreased)
Pulmonary A. Systolic P (Increased/Decreased)
Systemic Systolic BP (Increased/Decreased)
Total Systemic Vascular resistance (Increased/Decreased)
Due to shunting of blood to the muscles

Influenza Vaccine/Pharm:
(Inactivated/ or Live attenuated) vaccine stimulates the formation of neutralizing antibodies agaist hemagluttinin antigen –> preventing viral entry
(Inactivated/ or Live attenuated) vaccines can generate a strong cell-mediated immune response that can kill virally infected cells, in addition humoral immunity.
Oseltamivir MOA
Inactivated vaccine stimulates the formation of neutralizing antibodies agaist hemagluttinin antigen –> preventing viral entry
Live attenuated vaccines can generate a strong cell-mediated immune response that can kill virally infected cells, in addition humoral immunity.
Oseltamivir: sialic acid analogue that competively inhbiits influenza neuraminidase –> prevents release of viral progency (virions)

Cavernous Carotid Syndrome
Expanding aneurysm in cavernous portion of ICA will initially cause headache + diplopia.
WHAT ARE THE NERVES THAT ARE AFFECTED BY THIS ?
Main one: Abducens Nerve –> Lateral rectus weakness, inward eye deviation
Oculomotor Nerve
Trochlear Nerve
V1 and V2 branches of Trigeminal nerve

Intravenous Fluid & Clinical Indications
Volume resusciation (hypovolemia, shock, sepsis)
Severe, symptomatic Hyponatremia
Free water deficit
Maitenance Hydration
Volume replacement; treatment of SBP or HRS
Volume resusciation (hypovolemia, shock)–> 0.9 normal saline or Lactated Ringer solution (both isotonic)
Severe, symptomatic Hyponatremia –> 3% hypertonic saline (hypertonic)
Free water deficit: 5% Dextrose in water or half-normal saline (hypotonic)
Maitenance Hydration: 5% dextrose in half normal saline (hypotonic)
Volume replacement: Albumin (isotonic)

______________ is a blood-loving organism that requires X (hematin) & V (NAD+) factors for growth. This can be accomplished by growing this bacteria in the presence of what? (Satellite phenomenon)
Wont grow on sheep blood’s agar because no factor 5 or 10.
Haemophilus influenza
Satellite Phenomenon: Presence of Beta-Hemolytic Staph aureus –> lysis RBCs –> release factor X and V –> growth of Haem infleunza.
Median Nerve Pathway
- Arises from the __________ cords of the brachial plexus –> 2. travels in the bicipital groove (w brachial A) –>
- Now in the forearm the median nerve courses between the humeral and ulnar heads of the ____________ –>
- flexor digitorum profundus –> enter hand through carpal tunnel –> first 3.5 digits (palmar aspect)
Compression at ________ = impaired sensation to palmar aspect of first 3 digits
Compression at _______ = senstaion impaired also to the entire lateral palm + first 3 digits
Medial & lateral cords
pronator teres muscle
carpal tunnel
pronator teres
__________ –> episodes of jaundice, impaired bilirubin excretion, black liver, direct bilirubin
_____ Syndrome is also Direct Bilirubine
_____ & _____syndomre = impaired bilirubin conjugation (indirect bilirubinemia)
Dubin-Johnson Syndrome:
- Autosomal Recessive
- Defective hepatic excretion of bilirubin glucoronides –> mutation in caclilulaur membrane transport protein
- Episodes of Jaundice (trigger = stress, illness, pregnant)
- Direct hyperbilirubinemia (because impaired excretion)
- Liver appears black (gross) due to imapred excretion of epinepherine metabolites (in lysosomes)
Other answers: Rotor; Criggler Najar & Gilbert

____Pancreatic Bud –> Tail, body, most of head, small accesory pancreatic ducts
____pancreatic bud –> Uncinate process, portion of head, proximal portion of main pancreatic duct
________: failure of bentral and dorsal buds to fuse –> pancreatic secretions drained via to seperate duct systems (dorsal draining most)
Dorsal Bud
Ventral Bud
Pancreatic divisum
___________complications (name the complication)
- Worsening of baseline symptoms + development of painful swallowing
2, Metaplastic columnar epithelium replaces normal stratified squamous –> No change is symptoms, Just dysphagia + weight loss
- develops in the setting of healing when collagen fibers contract and cause narrowing of lumen –> feeling of dysphagia + food getting stuck
Gastro esophageal Reflux disease (GERD) complications
- Erosive esphagitis with esophageal ulcers (odynophagia = painful swallow)
- Barret esophagus
- Esophageal stricture

WIlson’s Disease results in cystic degneration of what structure?
Huntington disease effects what structure?
What are the other labeled structures?

WIlson’s Disease results in cystic degneration of Putamen (B)
Huntington disease effects caudate nucleus (D)
Internal capusle is C
Globus pallidus is D
Amygdala is E

Name the Embryologic malformation & MOA:
- Cecum in RUQ, Presense of fibrous bands connecting cecum and right colon to retroperitoneum –> extrinsic compression of duodenum (possible compression of SMA –> necrosis); Present with billious vomiting
- Double bubble sign, Billious vomiting, associated with down syndrome
- Delayed passage of meconium, abdominal distention, bilious vomit. Mega colon
- True Diverticulum, sometimes contains ectopic gastric tissue, rule of 2s
- Intestinal obstruction & Midgut volvulus due to intestinal marotation
- Duodenal atresia due to failure of gut recanilization
- Hirschprung disease –> failure of NCC migration in gust –> agagnlionic sigmoid colon/rectum
- Meckel Diverticulum
Pulsatile GnRH release from hypothalamus –> stimulate release of LH and FSH from anterior pituitary.
LH stimulates ______ –> release ________
FSH stimulate _______ –> release _______
High Local levels of _______& _______ are necessary for spermatogenesis
Theres is a negative feed back loop
Leydig cells –> Release Testosterone
Sertoli Cells –> release Inhibin B
High Local levels of Testosterone & FSH are necessary for spermatogenesis

What gene/protein is defective in familial Dilated cardiomyopathy? Inheritance pattern?
What chemicals can cause Dilated cardiomyopaththy
Dilated cardiomyopathy
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Pathogenesis
- Direct insult to myocardium –> decrease in contractile function with increase in ventricular cavity size
- Causes
- Viral infection
- Chemicals (Doxorubicin, alchohol, cocaine)
- Idiopathic/familial (AutoDom) = Truncated TTN gene -> defective Titin protein
- Symptoms of decompensated heart failure
- Dyspnea, fatigue, orthopnea
- Risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrythmia
Case:3yo Recurrent sinupulmonary infections, giardia lamblia gastreoenteritis, enterovirus infections. Pan-hypoglobulinemia
What disorder is described above? what cell surface (CD) marker would be deficent?
X-Linked agammaglobulinemia
- Mutation in Bruton Tyrosine Kinase à failure of bone marrow pre-B cells to develop into mature B cells (a step necessary for B cells to leave the bone marrow and enter circulation)
- Recurrent sinopulmonary infections
- ·Giardia Lamblia Gastroenteritiis
- ·Failure to thrive
- ·Low Immunoglobulin levels
- ·Low or absent B cells (NO cd19,20,21)
- ·Pan-hypogammaglobulinemia
SCID would be a deficeincy of T and B cells; failure to thrive, candidiasis, severe infections (PCP) at younger age
Atheroembolic disease
- Typically occurs after an invasive vascular procedure –> mechanical dislodgement of atherosclerotic plaque –> showering of cholestorol-rich emobli into circulation
- Needle-shaped cholestorol clefts in affected vessels are diagnost
- Commonly involved organs include
- ______________________
- ______________________
- ______________________
- ______________________
- Commonly involved organs include
- Kidneys (Acute Kidney Injury)
- Skin (blue Toe syndrome, livedo reticularis)
- GI tract (bleeding, infarction)
- CNS (stroke, amaurosis fugax)
_________is TB drug that is similar in structure as B6 –> causes B6 deficiency which manifests as:
- Sensory Ataxia + decreased Pain sensation + numbness and tingling of his hands and feet
_____and _____chemo drugs that inhibit microtubule formation and directly toxic to nerves
Isoniazid
Vincristine and Paclitaxel
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Hypoglycemia can be induced by:
- _______________________________
- ___________________________
- ____________________________
- Uptake of glucose by ____________ is mediated by GLUT4 Transporter, which is translocated to the cell membrane in response to _____and/or _________. Hypoglycemia can be precipitated by ______in pts with insulin treated diabetes due to persistent dosing of exogenous insulin.
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Hypoglycemia can be induced by:
- Inadvertent overdose of insulin
- decrease carb intake (skipped meal)
- Intensive physical exercise
- Uptake of glucose by skeletal muscle is mediated by GLUT4 Transporter, which is translocated to the cell membrane in response to insulin and/or muscle contraction. Hypoglycemia can be precipitated by exercise in pts with insulin treated diabetes due to persistent dosing of exogenous insulin.






























































































































































































































































