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What is one of the main clinical indications of Early Menopause?
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Reduced production of Inhibin by the ovaries.
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What are three symptoms of hyperparathyroidism that are often vague complaints, but likely to accompany this syndrome?
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Fatigue, weakness, and constipation due to "hyperstabilization" of tissues and produces non-responsiveness.
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What are the most important predisposing factors for Chronic Endometritis?
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Chlamydial infection, post-partum endometrial changes, and IUDs.
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What microbe can cause a pregnant mother fever, weakness, and diarrhea, and can cause granulomatous disease of the fetus/newborn infant?
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LISTERIA.
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What is Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia? Which enzyme is deficient and what pathway does it inhibit?
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Mutations in steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR), the protein necessary for transport of cholesterol from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane in the adrenals and gonads, but not the placenta, result in complete steroid hormone deficiency in the adrenals and gonads.
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When checking nodal involvement in a patient with Colon Cancer, what is important to note about the location of that cancer with relationship to the pectineal line?
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If the tumor is below the pectineal line, the nodes for metastsis with be superficial inguinal which are palpable. It the tumor is above the pectineal line, the nodes will be internal illiac, which is inside the pelvis.
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Parvovirus B19 causes what type of disease in patients with sickle cell? What type of problems can it present for the fetus of a pregnant woman?
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Parvovirus is a cause of aplastic anemia. It may be responsible for aplastic crises in patients with sickel cell anemia. Exposure of a pregnant woman in the first trimester may cause aplastic anemia in the fetus, which results in non-immune hydrops fetalis. The virus infects immature erythrocytes and causes anemia and the fetus dies of cardiac failure.
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Which congenital infection is responsible for cutaneous scarring of the fetus?
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This occurs in an infant with congenital varicella syndrome. The other major feature is limb defects.
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Which congenital viral infection is responsible for maintaining a patent ductus arteriosus and causing pulmonary artery stenosis?
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Rubella syndrome.
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