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What is the inheritance of CF?
Most common infection of patients w/ CF? |
AR
pseudomonas |
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Describe the PHYSICAL (not retardation) presentation of Cretinism?
It is a problem with what hormone? What other hormone abnormality is associated with Cretinism? |
child with puffy face, pottybelly, protuberant tongue
Thyroid hormone Growth Hormone (permissive effect) |
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Compare what areas are supplied by the IMA and the SMA?
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SMA: transverse colon
IMA: lower colon/rectum |
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Premature infants may have a meconium ileus. What other condition causes meconium ileus in infants that is not due to prematurity?
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CF
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What drug is related to "gray baby" syndrome?
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chloramphenicol
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What affect does carbon monoxide have on oxygen binding to Hemoglobin?
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increases the affinity of oxygen for hemoglobin (wont let go!)
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What is Wermer Syndrome?
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MENI: PPP
Pituitary Parathyroid: hypercalcemia/stones Pancreatic: hypergastrin/ulcers |
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What do you call the inability to recognize somebody's face?
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prosopagosia
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What autoimmune condition is associated with Turner's syndrome?
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hypothyroidism (low T3/T4)
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What drug improves outcomes in ALS?
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Riluzole
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What are the markers of an immature T cell (HINT: other than TdT)?
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CD4 CD8 (before committment)
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What is the difference between Chiari Malformation I and Chiari Malformation II?
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I: only tonsils herniate
II: midbrain, other structures herniate |
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What is thoracic outlet syndrome?
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compression of neurologic bundles of the brachial plexus (possibly due to cervical rib)
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What are the sources of yersinia entercoliticus? (2)
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1. milk
2. chitterlings |
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What type of anti-depressants tend to have anti-cholinergic side effects?
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TCA
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What is the function of secretin? Where is this hormone produced?
What is the function of CCK? Where is this hormone produced? |
secretin (S cells of duodenum): ↑HCO3/↓gastric acid
CCK (I cells of duodenum): slows gastric emptying/galbladder contraction |
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What is a common mechanism for necrosis in neoplasm?
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fast growth outpaces blood supply and tissue dies
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Most common site for embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma?
Where ELSE can it be seen? |
head and neck
vagina |
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What is dermatitis herpataformis and where is it seen?
What is a nevus? |
dermal rash seen in celiac sprue patients over extensor surfaces (elbows, knees)
a mole |
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What is an adverse event to anti-psychotic medications?
What are the extrapyrimidal side effects caused by anti-psychotic drugs? (4) |
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
1. 4h: dystonia 2. 4d: akinesia (parkinsons) 3. 4w: akathisia (restless) 4. 4m: tardive dyskinesia (chorea) |
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What paraneoplastic syndromes is associated with RCC? (2)
What is Rotor Syndrome? |
↑EPO: polycythemia vera
↑rPTH: Hypercalcemia a mild condition of Dublin-Johnson syndrome (hyper conjugated bili d/t defective excretion) |
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What is Dublin-Johnson syndrome?
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hyper conjugated bili d/t defective excretion; associated with black liver
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1. Guillen-Barre is associated with infection of what organism?
2. What is another name for Sipple syndrome? |
1. Campylobacter Jejuni
2. MEN-2A |
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1. What are neurofibrillary tangles and what disease are they associated with?
2. What is the status of the ovaries in Turner's Syndrome? |
1. uncorrectly phosphorylated Tau proteins; associated with Alzheimers
2. ovarian streaks=dysgenesis |
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1. What does the CAMP test differentiate between?
2. What is a ribozyme and what does it do? |
1. Group A versus Group B strep
2. its a ribonucleic acid enzyme that cleaves RNA |
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1. Compare the S/S in MEN2A and MEN-2B
2. What pathogen are surfers at risk of contracting? |
1. MEN2A (2P's): Parathyroid, Pheo Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
MEN2B (1P): Pheo, Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma 2. Leptospirosis |
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1. What blood components push the oxygen dissociation curve to the right? (3)
2. How is DMD inherited? 3. What are diagnostic criteria for dythymia? |
1. DPG, CO2, H+
2. XR 3. loss of pleasure for 2+ years |
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1. Compare the typical presentation of acute Tb infection with reinfection? (HINT: where are the lesions, specifically)
2. What cardiac abnormalities are associated with DMD? |
1. acute: mid-lung lesion with mediastinal node involvement; reactivation: single lesion in apex
2. dilated cardiomyopathy |
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1. What contribution does the prostate give to seminal fluid?
2. What cells have MHC-I and which cells have MHC-II |
1. acidic medium AND zinc
2. MHC-I: all nucleated cells (no RBC); MHC-II: all APCs |
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1. What contribution does the bulbourethral glands give to seminal fluid?
2. What condition are Munro abscess associated with? |
1. basic medium
2. Psoriasis |
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1. What contribution does the seminal vessicles give to seminal fluid?
2. Diagnose these characteristics: Young child with increasing ataxia and loss of reflexes? |
1. fructose
2. Fredreich's Ataxia |
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1. What are the genetics of Friedrich's ataxia?
2. Where is the defect in Pemphigus Vulgaris and Bullous Pemphigoid? |
1. expanding trinucleotide repeat
2. PV: is in the intraepidermal connections; BP: is in the dermal/epidermal junction |
