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1. Name two types of damage that SLE can cause to the heart (HINT: one is pericardial, one is myocardial)
2. Which nerves control the lateral, anterior, and posterior compartments of the leg? |
1. restrictive cardiomyopathy (AA amyloid), serous pericarditis
2. lateral: superficial peroneal, anterior: deep peroneal, posterior: tibial |
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1. What compound will cause a positive blood test on urine w/o any RBCs?
2. Which type of thyroiditis is preceeded by a cold/flu? How does it present? 3. After performing a positive ELISA for HIV, what is a positive versus a negative Western Blot? Indeterminate? |
1. myoglobinuria
2. DeQuervain; painful but self-limiting 3. +Ab to at least 2 of the big HIV Abs; otherwise, result is indeterminant |
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1. What is the primary cell type required to diagnose granuloma?
2. Is Hashimoto's painful or painless? |
1. epithelioid histiocyte
2. painless |
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1. Can a physician order HIV testing on patient without permission if there is a needle-stick to staff member?
2. Patient has gastric resection; what type of meals should he/she eat and why? |
1. absolutely.
2. small, more frequent, high in fat; need to decrease "dumping" caused by hypertonicity in lumen (no carbs) |
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1. Why does BUN/Cr decrease during pregnancy?
2. What is Auramine-Rhodamine stain used for? 3. Overdose with TCA has what effect on the heart? |
1. Increase in plasma volume leads to increase in filtration/excretion
2. acid fast bacilli 3. lethal arrythmia |
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1. Why does glucosuria happen in pregnancy?
2. What makes tuberculosis resistant to gram staining? |
1. decrease in the ability of the transporters to transport glucose
2. mycolic (waxy) acid envelope |
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1. Compare normal vaginal flora in pre-pubescent versus post-pubescent female?
2. Give an equation for how to calculate Vd of a drug? |
1. pre: staph, post: lactobacillus, etc.
2. T1/2=(0.7 * Vd)/CL |
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1. How is resting membrane potential affected by increasing extracellular K+ concentrations?
2. Which Ig has the shortest half-life? |
1. less negative (more easy to depolarize)
2. IgD |
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1. What antibody has a valence of 4 and a valence of 10? Why?
2. The strep. pyogenes exotoxin is responsible for what problems? (3) 3. In a Gs mediated process, what role do GTP and ATP play? |
1. IgA 4 (dimeric), IgM 10 (pentameric)
2. (a) nec. fasc (b) Scarlett fever (c) Toxic-shock-like 3. GTP loses a phosphate to activate the signaling protein; ATP is the molecule converted to cAMP |
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1. Compare the size of the kidneys seen in ADPKD and dialysis mediated?
2. What is Loeffler endocarditis? |
1. ADPKD: enlarged, dialysis: shrunken
2. restrictive cardiomyopathy with characteristic eosinophilia |
