week 10

Question 1

melatonin and antioxidant

Answer 1

glutathione

also anti inflame- inhibit cox

Question 2

seizure

Answer 2

uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain

lots of ca2+

Question 3

tania tapework

Answer 3

neurocysticerosis get into brain

Question 4

Trypanosoma brucei from tsetse fly

Answer 4

sleeping sickness

daytime sleep, night insomnia, narcolepsy

Question 5

peripheral nerve fiber damage 2 ttype

Answer 5

axonal degenration (wallerian)

segmental demyleiantion

Question 6

what happens when try to remyelinate

Answer 6

reduce internode lengths

accumulate supernumerary Schwann cells

Question 7

most common cause of peripheral neuropathy

Answer 7

diabetes–

high blood sugar –> poly pathway

decrease NADH and incrASE ROS

increase sorbital

decrease NO and increase homocysteine

Question 8

diabetes is usually

Answer 8

stocking and glove neuroapthu

Question 9

alcohol and peripheral neuroapthy

Answer 9

impair metabolism of thiamine and other essential nturient

Question 10

pericardisiits causes

Answer 10

viral (coxsackie) and idiopathic

Question 11

inflammation in pericarditis

Answer 11

fibrinous inflammation from leukocytes

Question 12

pericardial tamponade

Answer 12

Accumulation of fluid in the pericardial space that is severe enough that it acutely obstructs flow into the ventricles – usually acute accumulation

Question 13

myocarditis

Answer 13

x

Question 14

bacterial endocarditis

Answer 14

form thrombus

Question 15

acute bacterial endocarditis causes

Answer 15

Vegetation = mass of platelets, fibrin, microorganisms, and some inflammatory cells

Question 16

bacterial for bacterial endocarditis

Answer 16

▪ Nasty acute bugs – staphylococcus aureus, streptococcal species, rarely pneumococcus
▪ More slow-growing, “less damaging” bugs – HACEK group, enterococcus

Question 17

bug that causes lyme

Answer 17

borrelia burgforferi

Question 18

POTS

Answer 18

when people go from lying down to standing, they experience a > 30 beat/min increase in HR

NO DECREASSE IN BP bc then it would be orthostatic hypotension

Question 19

3 types of POTS

Answer 19

neuropathic - blood pool in lower limb

hypovolemic- reduce blood volume

hyperadrenergic- too much NE