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Hypersensitivity involving mast cell degranulation, IGE
Reactions from mast cells are a protective mechanism against what? What stain do you use to see mast cells? A mosquito bite is the classic example of what? |
Type I
worm infections toluidine blue urticaria (hives) |
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Cold urticaria involves what protein and gene?
Obstruction of sweat ducts is a cause of __________. C1-esterase inhibitor deficiency is a cause of what? Primary treatment for anaphylaxis? |
cryopyrin, Muckle-Wells gene
cholinergic urticaria angioedema (urticaria of an organ) epinephrine |
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Immune injury involving Ag's on cell surface:
ABO incompatibility involves what IG? Rh incompatibility involves what IG? Donath-Landsteiner AB's (IGM's active in cold) are involved in what? Usually from what disease? |
Type II
IGM IGG Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria syphilis |
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Autoimmune attack against basement membranes - lungs, kidneys:
Autoimmune attack against desmosomes, desmoglein - epidermis falls apart: Pernicious anemia is a defect in what? |
Goodpasture's
pemphigus intrinsic factor |
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What type of immune injury affects blood vessels, gloms, skin, and synovium?
Arthus reaction is what? Serum sickness resulted from using serum from what animal? Polyarteritis nodosa can result from Type III injury from what infection? |
Type III
local immune complex mediated injury horses Hep B |
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Allograft rejection, TB skin test and fungi are all examples of what type of immune injury?
Term for altered T-cell function, seen in AIDS, sarcoid, and acute measles: Type IV injury against melanocytes: |
Type IV
anergy vitiligo |
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"Barney Clark's disease":
What bacteria mimics axon protein and can cause nerve damage? B-hemolytic Strep has what two major complications? Guillain-Barre can be a complication from what infection? |
CoxSackie B
Lyme bacillus - Borellia burgdoferi myocarditis, rheumatic fever Campylobacter |
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Thymomas can cause what disorder? Why?
Microchimerism puts you at increased risk for what? Men have a higher risk for disorders with which HLA antigen? Women? |
Triggers cholinergic release --> myasthenia gravis
scleroderma Men: HLA class I Women: HLA class I( |
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Which HLA is associated with ankylosing spondylitis?
Rim pattern of Auto-Ab's: homogenous Auto-Ab's: centromere pattern of Auto-Ab's: nucleolar pattern of Auto-Ab's: |
HLA B27
anti-ds DNA --> SLE anti-histones - drug-induced SLE CREST, pulmonary HTN anti-TH, fibrillin - scleroderma |
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Hematoxylin bodies are pathognomic for what disease?
Major symptoms? WBC nucleus without cytoplasm, with anti-nuclear Ab's: You often see vasculitis and onion-skinning in which organ with SLE? |
SLE
arthritis, skin changes, kidney damage, fever, mental changes LE bodby Spleen |
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What is a discoid rash?
Eponym for verrucous endocarditis in lupus: Chronic discoid lupus involves what pathological change? Disease with big salivary glands, bad teeth, decreased saliva: eponym for dry eyes, dry mouth in Sjogren's: |
hairless, scaly, shiny skin
Libman-Sacks endocarditis lymphocytes around sebaceous apparatus in skin Sjogren's Sicca syndrome |
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Eponym for big salivary glands:
Sjogren's is common in what chronic infection? Name for test in which you put filter paper in a person's eye to check for Sjogren's: Sjogren's patients have increased risk of what cancer? |
Mikulicz's syndrome
Chronic Hepatitis C Schirmer's test B-cell lymphoma |
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Diagnostic criteria for scleroderma?
Which organ has onion-skinning in scleroderma? Where do you commonly see tight skin/sclerodactyly? What happens to the esophagus? |
teleangiectasias on nail beds
kidneys finger pads "Rubber hose" esophagus - dysphagia, reflux, aspiration |
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What is CREST?
Patients are at increased risk for what? Scleroderma confined to one part of the body, seen with Lyme disease, "plastic skin": |
milder form of scleroderma - calcinosis cutis, Raynaud's, esophagitis, sclerodactyly, teleangiectasias
pulmonary HTN, primary biliary cirrhosis morphea |
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scleroderma that follows a dermatome:
Involves hemiatrophy of the face: Two classic autoimmune paraneoplastic syndromes, can involve muscle, skin, capillaries: Trigger point pain, no anatomical/lab correlations, usually young women, no EtOH or Valium use: |
localized linear scleroderma
Parry-Romberg polymyositis (muscle) dermatomyositis (skin, capillaries) - "purple eyelids, purple knuckles" fibromyalgia |