Week 3 bb revision Flashcards
Monoclonal
Immunoglobulin light chain
urine or serum
Bence-Jones protein
Bence-Jones found in what conditions
Multiple Myeloma
Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia
Amyloidosis
Blood serum paraprotein GREATER than 30
Multiple Myeloma
Amyloid in myeloma-associated amyloidosis
AL amyloid
Initial multiple myeloma chemo pre-autologous stem cell transplant
Lenalidomide + dexamethasone
proteasome inhibitor used for multiple myeloma
Bortezomib
Old patient with multiple myeloma not eligible for transplant. What treatment do they get?
melphalan and prednisolone
with either thalidomide or bortezomib
Which immunoglobulin is raised in macroglobulinaemia?
IgM
The most common paraprotein in multiple myeloma
IgG
Raised beta2-microglobulin
Poor prognosis in multiple myeloma
Weight loss and IgM paraprotein on electrophoresis
Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia
tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase
Hairy-cell leukaemia
Gaucher’s disease
Haemolytic anaemia refractory to corticosteroids, next line treatment?
Splenectomy and rituximab
Chemo options for CLL?
FCR = Fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, Rituximab
CHOP = Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Vincristine and Prednisolone
Antiproliferative used in polycythaemia vera
Hydroxyurea
Anagrelide
Reduces platelets in thrombocythaemia
Lecuovorin
Methotrexate rescue drug
Solid organ transplant, MS, NHL
Reduces B lymphocytes more than T
Rituximab
Treatment of hodgkins
ABVD (Doxorubicin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine, Decarbazine) +/- radiotherapy
Raised ESR
History of temporal arteritis
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Schistocytes
anaemia
Microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia
Gram-negative monocytosis, urease positive
Brucella
Urease negative = salmonella
C1 inhibitor deficiency aka…
hereditary angioedema
Bubonic plague
Yersinia pestis
Dodgy water source
Profuse, non-bloody diarrhoea
Cryptosporidium parvum
Rat bite fever
sodoku
Spirillium minus
Cat-scratch disease
Bartonella henselae or Bartonella quintana
Epidemic typhus
Rickettsia prowazekii
Hunter who has been skinning animals
Tularemia
Erythema chronicum migrans
Lyme disease
A form of brucella …
Mediterranean
Goats
Easy culture
Brucella melitensis
‘m’ for mediterranean
Brucella abortus is more common in cows
Ulceration
Black and necrotic
Gram positive rods
Respond to penicillin
Bacillus anthracis
Trichophyton rubrum
Tinea pedis
Epidermophyton floccosum
Tinea pedis
Tichophyton interdigitale
Tinea pedis
Fungus associated with hepatocellular carcinoma
Aspergilllus flavus
Malassezia furfur
Pityriasis versicolor
Malassezia restricta
Seborrhoeic dermatitis
Malassezia globosa
Sebrrhoeic dermatitis
Woods lamp exam - yellow or orange
Pityriasis versicolor
Woods lamp exam - red pink fluorescence
Porphyria cutanea tarda
India ink with halo around the cell
Cryptoccus neoformans
Swollen and painful limb near a boil
Staphylococcal osteomyelitis