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Where is CK-MB found?
Heart
Where is CK-MM found?
Muscle
Where is CK-BB found?
Brain
Why should you wait 30 minutes after a meal before swimming?
all blood in GI so muscles have low ATP
How does neurogenic muscle disease present?
Distal weakness and fasciculations
How does myopathic muscle disease present?
Proximal weakness and pain
What is a light chain composed of?
Actin
What is a heavy chain composed of?
Myosin
What band of the sarcomere does not change length?
A Band
Where are the t-tubules located?
Cardiac muscle: Z line
Skeletal Muscle: A-I jxn
What is duchenne's muscular dystrophy?
Distrophin frameshift mutation
Gower sign
Pseudohypertrophy of Calf
What is Becker's muscular dystrophy?
Dystrophin missense mutation. Symptoms onset AFTER 5 yrs
What is myotonic dystrophy?
Bird's beak face
Can't let go when they shake hands
What is myastenic syndrome?
Lambert Eaton
Gets stronger as day goes by
Small cell carcinoma of lung
What is myastenia gravis?
Weaker as the day goes by
Stronger with edrophonium
Weaker with EMG
Rule out Thymoma
What is multiple sclerosis?
Anti Myelin ab
Young woman with vision problems
Symptoms wax and wane
What is metachromatic leukodystrophy?
Arylsulfatase deficiency
Kid with MS presentation
What is ataxia telangectasia?
Spider Veins
IgA deficiency
What is Friedreich's Ataxia?
Retinitis pigmentosa
Scoliosis
What is adrenal leukodystrophy?
Carnitine shuttle problem
Adrenal failure
What is Guillenne Barre
Ascending paralysis 2 wks after URI
What is ALS
Middle aged male with fasciculations

Descending paralysis

No sensory problems
What is Werdnig-Hoffman?
Fasciculations in newborn
No anterior horns
What is Polio?
Asymmetric fasciculations in child

2 wks after gastroenteritis
What is choreoathetosis?
Dance-like movements
Wringing of hands
Quivering of voice
What is atonic cerebral palsy?
No muscle tone (floppy)
What is slipped capital femoral epiphysis?
Obese boy with dull achy pain
What is Legg-Calves-Perthes?
Limp (femoral head)
What is Osgood-Schlatter?
Knee Pain (Tibial Tubercle)
What is septic arthritis?
Joint pain (S. Aureus)
What is ankylosing spondylitis?
LIgament ossification (vertebral body fusion)
decreased lumbar curvature
Stiffer in AM
Kyphosis
Uveitis
HLA B27
What is Cauda Equina Syndrome
"Saddle Anaestesia"
Can't feel butt, thighs, perineum
Where do bone cancer mets come from?
Breast
Prostate
Lung
Kidney
What is costochondritis?
Painful swelling of chest joint-bone attachments. Worse with deep breath
What is disk herniation?
Straight leg raise leads to shooting pain
What is lumbar stenosis?
MRI "Hourglass"
Low back pain
What is ochronosis (alkaptonuria)?
Kids with OA
Homogentisic acid oxidase deficiency
Black urine
What is osteitis Fibrosis cystic?
Inflammation of bone with holes
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
Blue sclera
Multiple broken bones
What is osteomalacia (rickets)?
Soft bones (waddling gait)
Craniotabes (soft skull)
Rachitic rosary (costochondral thickening)
Harrison's groove
Pigeon breast (sternum protrusion)
What is osteomyelitis?
Infected bones
What is osteonecrosis (Legg-Calve-Perthes)?
Wedge shaped necrosis of femoral head
What is osteopenia?
Lost bone mass
What is osteopetrosis?
Decreased osteoclast activity
Marble bones
Obliterate own BM
What is osteoperosis?
Loss of bone matrix
Compression fractures
What is osteosclerosis?
Thick bones
What is Paget's disease?
"My hat doesn't fit"

Increased osteoclasts/blasts
Increased alkaline phosphatase alone
Paramyxovirus
Fluffy bone
Osteosarcoma
CHF
Deafness
What is gastroschisis?
AKA paromphalocele
Abdominal viscera develop outside of abdomen
Abdominal wall defect
off center, no peritoneum cover
What is a nephroblastoma?
Kidney (Wilm's Tumor)
Hemihypertrophy
Aniridia
What is a neuroblastoma?
Adrenal medulla tumor
Hypsarrhythmia
Opsoclonus
Increased VMA
What is polyhydramios?
Too much amniotic fluid (AFI > 20)
Baby can't swallow
What are the MCC of polyhydramios?
Obstruction, i.e. GI problem like duodenal atresia
What is oligohydramios?
Too little amniotic fluid (AFI < 5). Baby cannot pee
What is the MCC of oligohydramios?
Abdominal muscles problem (prune belly) or Renal agenesis (Potter's syndrome)
What is fifth disease?
Erythema Infectiosum (Slapped Cheek)

Arthritis in mom
Aplastic Anemia
What is sixth disease?
Roseola

Exanthema subitum (fever disappears, then rash appears)
What is hand-foot-mouth disease?
Mouth ulcers (won't eat or drink)

Rash on Palms/Soles

Coxsackie A Virus
What is measles? (Rubeola)
1) Cough, Coryza, Conjunctivitis

2) Koplik Spots

3) Morbiliform botchy rash
What is molluscum contagiosum?
Flesh colored papules with central dimples
What is mumps/
Parotitis
What is Pityriasis Rosea?
Herald patch migrates along skin lines, "Christmas Tree" appearance
What is Rubella (German 3 day measles)
Trunk Rash
Lymphadenopathy behind the ears
Don't look sick
How is smallpox different from chickenpox?
Small pox is on face
Same stages of development
Fever
What is varicella (Chicken Pox)
1) Red Macule
2) Clear vesicle on red dot
3) Pus
4) Scab
What is Zellweger's?
Neonatal seizures
What is the MCC of delayed speech development?
Hearing loss
What are the signs of child abuse?
Multiple ecxchymoses
Retinal hemmorhages
Epidural/Subdural hemmorhage
Spinal fractures (twisted)
Multiple fractures in different healing stages
What should you rule out when suspected child abuse?
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Bleeding Disorder
Fifth's disease
Mongolian spots
What are the newborn screening tests?
"Please check before going home"

PKU
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Biotinidase, Beta Thalassemia
Galactossemia
Hypothyroidism/Homocysteinurea
What is the MCC of mental retardation in the US?
EtOH
Fragile X
Down's
What is Rubeola also known as?
Measles
What is Rubella also known as?
German Measles
What is the MC eye infection of the first day of life?
Clear discharge d/t silver nitrate
What is the MC eye infection of the first week of life?
Gonorrhea (purulent discharge)
What is the MC eye infection of the second week of life?
Chlamydia
What is the MC eye infection of the third week of life?
Herpes
What are the causes of hyperbilirubinemia?
Sepsis
ABO incompatibility
Hypothyroidism
Breast feeding
What is the cause of symmetrically small babies?
Chromosomal abnormality or TORCHS
What is the cause of large babies?
DM or twin-twin transfusion
What is Milia?
Neonatal whiteheads on malar area AKA milk spots
What is Nevus flammeus?
"Stork bites" on back of neck
Looks like flames
What is seborrheic dermatitis?
Red rash with oily skin and dry, flaky hairline
What are hemangiomas?
Flat blood vessels
What are Mongolian spots?
Melanocytes on lower back
What is erythema toxicum?
White wheal on red area. Has eosinophils
What is subgaleal hemorrhage?
Prolonged jaundice in newborns d/t birthing trauma
What is caput succadaneum?
Under scalp *edema crosses suture lines)
What is cepahlohematoma?
Under bone (blood doesn't cross suture lines)
What is an Epstein's pearl?
White pearls on hard palate
What is persistent eye drainage since birth usually due to?
Blocked duct
What are wide sutures due to?
Hypothyroidism
Down's
What causes a cleft lip?
Medial nasal prominence did not fuse (maxillary sinus)
What causes a cleft palate?
Maxillary shelves did not fuse
What is the MCC of no red reflex?
Cataracts
What is the MCC of a white reflex?
Retinoblastoma
What is the sign of a clavicle fracture?
Asymmetric moro reflex
What is an omphalocele?
Intestines protrude out of umbilicus
Covered by peritoneum
Which cytokines do macrophages stimjulate?
IL-1
Which cytokines do T helper cells stimulate
everything except IL-1
Which enlarged lymph nodes are most likely malignant?
Supraclavicular
Epitrochlear
Inguinal
What is CD8
T Killer or T Supressor cell. Responds to MCH-I (self)
What cells express MHC-I
All except RBCs and Platelets
What is CD4
T helper cells

Responds to MHC-II (non-self)
What type of immunity does TH1 provide?
Cell mediated
What type of immunity does TH2 provide?
Humoral
What do B Cell Deficient patients die from?
Bacterial infection
What is the common variable hypogammaglobulinemia?
Kids w/ B cells that don't differentiate into plasma cells. Low ab
What is Burton's Agammaglobulinemia?
Young adults with defective Tyrosine Kinase

No Ab

X-Linked
What is Job's syndrome?
Stuck in IgE stage

Red head females
What is Multiple Myeloma?
Multiple osteolytic lesions
IgG
Kappa light chains
Rouleaux formations
What is heagvy chain disease?
IgA and Multiple Myeloma of the GI Tract
What is selective IgG2 deficiency?
Recurrent encapsulated infections
What is selective IgA deficiency?
Transfusion anaphylaxis

Mucous membrane infections
What is hairy cell leukemia?
Fried egg
TRAP +
What is ataxia telangectasia?
Low IgA
Neuro Problems
What is hyper IgM syndrome?
High IgM
All other Ab low
What kind of problems do you see in patients with defects in cell mediated immunity?
Viral
Fungal
Mycobacterial
Protozoa
Parasite
Neoplasm
What do T cell deficient patients die from?
Viral infection
What is DiGeorge syndrome?
No Thymus/Inferior Parathyroids

Low Ca2+

Only immunodeficiency with low calcium
What is chronic mucocutanous Candidiasis?
T cell defect against Candida albicans

Chronic fatigue
What is SCID?
No Thymus
Frayed long bones
Baby dies by 18 months
What is Wiskott-Aldrich?
Low IgM
Low Platelets
High IgA
Eczema
Petechiae
What organs have the most CD4 receptors?
Blood Vessels
Brain
Testicles
Cervix
Rectum
What are the 3 tests used to screen for HIV?
ELISA --- Detects IgG Ab to P24 Ag

Western Blot---- See >2 proteins

PCR----Detects Virus
What are the 9 Live Vaccines?
MMR OR Very Yellow Sick Babies

Measles
Mumps
Rubella
OPV (Sabin oral polio)
Rotavirus
Varicella
Yellow Fever
Smallpox
BCG
What is Primary Biliary Cirrhosis?
Anti-mitochondrial Ab
Pruritis
Females
What is primary sclerosing cholangitis?
p-ANCA
bile duct inflammation
onion skinning
IBD
What is type I autoimmune hepatitis?
Anti-SM Ab
Young Women
What is type II autoimmune hepatitis?
Anti-LKM Ab
Kids
What is bullous pemphigoid?
Anti-hemidesmosome Ab
Skin bullae
What is Celiac Sprue?
Anti-gliadin/ anti-Gluten Ab (wheat)

Steatorrhea
What is CREST syndrome?
Anti-centromere Ab
Calcinosis
Raynaud's
Esophageal Dysmotility
Sclerodactyly
Telangiectasia
What is Dermatitis Herpetiformis?
Anti BMZ Ab
Anti endomysial Ab
Vessicles on anterior thigh
Assoc w/ Dermatitis Herpetiformis
What is dermatomyositis?
Anti-Jo1 Ab
Myositis + rash
What is DM Type I?
Anti- Islet Cell Ab
Anti GAD Ab
Polyuria
Polydypsia
Weight Loss
What is drug-induced lupus?
Anti-Histone Ab
Hydralazine
INH
Procainamide
Penicillamine
Penytoin
Ethosuxamide
What is gastritis type A?
Anti-Parietal cell Ab
Atrophic Gastritis
Achlorhydria
Adenocarcinoma (Increased risk)
What is Goodpastures?
Anti GBM Ab
Attacks lung and kidney
MCC RPGN
What is Grave's disease?
Anti-TSHr Ab
Attacks lung and kidney
MCC RPGN
What is Guillain-Barre?
Anti-ganglioside Ab
Ascending paralysis
2 wks post URI
What is Hashimoto's?
Anti Microsomal Ab
Anti Thyroid Peroxidase Ab
Hypothyroid
What is ITP?
Anti Platelet Ab
Anti GP3b3a Ab
Thrombocytopenia
What is mixed CT disease?
Anti RNP Ab
What is mononucleosis?
Heterophile Ab
Teen w/ sore throat
What is MPGN Type II?
Anti C3 convertase Ab (C3 nephritic factor)
What is MS?
Anti Myelin Ab

Middle Aged Female w/ vision problems
What is myastenia gravis?
Anti-Achr Ab
Female w/ ptosis
Weaker as day goes by
What is paroxysmal hemolysis?
Donath Landsteiner Ab
Bleeds when cold
What is Pemphigus Vulgaris?
Anti Desmosome Ab
Skin sloughs off when touched
What is pernicious anemia?
Anti IF Ab
VItamin B12 deficient
Megaloblastic anemia
What is polyarteritis nodosa?
p-ANCA
Attacks gut and kidney
Hep B
What is post-strep GN?
ASO Ab
Nephritic with complement deposition
What is rheumatoid arthritis?
Rheumatoid factor
Pain worse in AM
What is scleroderma?
Anti Scl70
Anti-Topoisomerase
Fibrosis
Skin Tightening
What is Sjorgrens?
Anti-SSA
Dry "sand in eye"
Dry Mouth
Arthritis
What is SLE?
Anti DsDNA/Smith/Cardiolipin
Rash
Photosensativity
Oral Ulcers
RF
What is SLE Cerebritis?
Anti-Neuronal Ab
Anti-Ribosomal Ab
What is Vitiligo?
Anti-Melanocyte Ab
White patches
What is warm hemolysis?
Anti Rh Ab
Bleeds at body temperature
What is Wegner's?
c-ANCA
Attacks ENT, Lungs, Kidney
#2 cause of RPGN
Drugs that cause autoimmune hemolytic anemia?
"PAC SAP"
PTU
alpha-methyldopa
Cephalosporins

Sulfas
Anti-Malarials
Penicillin
Drugs that cause autoimmune thrombocytopenia
Aspirin
Heparin
Quinidine
T Cytotoxic Cells
CD8
CD4

Recognize MHC-II
Also have CD2 and CD3 markers
T-Helper Cells
CD8
CD4

Recognize MHC II
Also have CD2 and CD3 markers
Wiskott-Aldrich Syn
B&T Cell Def
Low IgM
Low platelets
High IgA
Increased IL4
Eczema
Petechiae
SCID
Adenosine Deaminase deficiency

T cells more affected than B cells

Frameshift/Nonsense Mutation

Increased bacterial and fungal infections
CVID
Tyrosine Kinase Deficiency
Late Onset
Frameshift/Nonsense Mutation
HIV (HTLV-1)
Effects CD4-Rich tissue

Blood vessels
Brain
Testes
Cervix
Rectum

T cells more affected than B
Job-Buckley (Job's) syndrome
Tyrosine Kinase deficiency
Stuck in IgE
Red Headed Female
Burton's agammaglobulinemia
Tyrosine Kinase Deficiency

B Cell Deficiency
Leukemias
98% B Cell
Lymphomas
98% B Cell
DiGeorge Syndrome
Hypocalcemia (only immunodeficiency with decreased Ca2+)

Problem w/ 3rd and 4th Pharyngeal pouches

Deletion on Ch22

T Cell Deficiency
What is the CNS?
Brain and Spinal Cord
Oligodendrocytes
How does the parasympathetic system behave?
"DUMBBELS"
Diarrhea
Urination
Miosis (constrict)
Bradycardia
Bronchoconstrict
Erection
Lactimation
Salivation
What is the sympathetic system?
Fight or flight
Speeds stuff up
How does the sympathetic system behave?
"Opposition of parasympathetics"

Constipation
Urinary Retention
Mydriasis "eyes wide w/ fright"
Tachycardia
Bronchodilate
Ejaculate
Xeropthalmia (dry eyes)
Xerostomia (dry mouth)
What is Cushing's Triad?
HTN
Bradycardia
Irregular breathing
What is Budd-Chiari?
Hepatic Vein Obstruction
What is Arnold-Chiari?
Formaen Magnum Obstruction
What is anencephaly?
Notochord did not make contact with the brain. Only have medulla
What is encephalocele?
Brain tissue herniation
What is a dandy-walker malformation?
No cerebellum
Distended 4th and Lateral Ventricles
What is an arnold-Chiari malformation types I and II?
Herniation of the cerebellum through the Foramen Magnum.

Type I: Cerebellar Tonsils (asymptomatic)

Type II: Cerebellar Vermis/Medulla, Hydrocephalus, Syringomyelia (loss of pain/temp)
What is Spina Bifida Occulta?
Covered by skin w/ tuft of hair
What is Spina bifida aperta?
Has an opening (high AFP)
What is meningocele?
Sacral pocket with meninges in it
What is meningomyelocele?
Sacral pocket with meninges and nerves in it
What is open angle glaucoma?
Overproduction of fluid
Painless ipsilateral dilated pupil
Gradual tunnel vision
Optic disc cupping
What is closed angle glaucoma?
Obstruction of Canal of Schlemm
Sudden onset
Pain
Emergency
What are the watershed areas?
Hippocampus
Splenic Flexure
What bug loves the frontal lobe?
Rubella
What bug loves the temporal lobe?
HSV
What bug loves the parietal lobe?
Toxoplasma
What bug loves the hippocampus?
Rabies
What bug loves the posterior fossa?
TB
What bug loves the DCML tract?
Treponema
How do migraines present?
Aura
Photophobia
Numbness and tingling
Throbbing HA
Nausea
How does tension HA present?
"Band-like" pain starts in posterior neck
Worse as day progressses
Sleep disturbance
How do cluster HA present?
Rhinorrhea
Unilateral orbital pain
Suicidal
Facial flushing
Worse when lying down
How does temporal arteritis present?
Pain with chewing
Blind in one eye (emergency)
How does trigemial neuralgia present?
Sharp, shooting face pain
What are the two kinds of parial seizures?
Simple (aware)
Complex (unaware)
What are the three kinds of generalized seizures?
Tonic-Clonc (Grand Mal)
Absence: "Petite Mal"
Status Epilepticus
How does an epidural hematoma present?
Intermittent consciousness
"lucid interval"
How does a subdural hematoma present?
HA 4 wks after trauma
Elderly (loose brain)
How does a subarachnoid hemmorhage present?
Worst headache of my life

History of Berry Aneurysm
What is an Astrocytoma?
Rosenthal fibers

#1 in kids w/ occipital HA
What is an Ependymoma?
Rosettes
In 4th Ventricle
Hydrocephalus
What is a craniopharyngioma?
"Motor Oil Biopsy"
Tooth enamel
Rathke's pouch
ADH problem
Bitemporal Hemianopsia
What is Glioblastoma Multiforme?
Pseudopalisading
Necrosis
Worst Prognosis
Intralesional hemorrhage
What is hemangioblastoma?
Cerebellum
Von-Hippel-Lindau
What is medulloblastoma?
Pseudorosettes
Compresses brain
Early AM vomiting
What is a meningioma?
Parasagital
Psammoma bodies
Best pronosis
What are the most common places to metastasize to the brain?
Lung, Brest, Skin

See the tumor at the white-grey jxn
What is an oligodendroglioma?
Fried egg appearance
nodular calcification
What is a Pinealoma?
Loss of upward gaze
Loss of circadiam rythms
Precocious puberty
What is a Schwannoma?
CNS Tumor
Unilateral Deafness
What is Neurofibromatosis?
Cafe Au Lait spots (hyperpigmentation). Peripheral nerve tumors. Axillary freckles.
Neurofibromatosis Type I
Von Racklinghausen's

Peripheral
Chr 17
Optic Glioma
Lisch nodules
Scoliosis
Neurofibromatosis Type II
Acoustic Neuroma
Cental
Chromosome 22
Cataracts
Bilateral Deafness
What is Sturge-Weber?
Port wine stain (big purple spot on forehead).
Angioma of the retina
What is Tuberous Sclerosis?
Ashen leaf spots (hypopigmentation)
Primary brain tumors
Rhabdomyolysis of the heart
Renal Cell CA
Shagreen spots (leathery)