#5 Flashcards

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Boy slanted palpebral fissures, epicentral folds, thick nuchal folds, single palmar crease

  • Large reducible midline abdominal protrusion covered by skin, more pronounced when he cries
  • Umbilical stump is at the center of the protrusion

Cause?

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Incomplete closure of umbilical ring

- Down syndrome ‘’ congenital umbilical hernia’’

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44 yo man type 2 DM

  • lost 7kg with occasional nausea, vomiting and sensation of fullness after eating
  • Previously taking metformin added new medication

If patient weight loss is due to new medication, which is it?

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Glucagon like peptide 1 agonist

- Increase glucose -dependent insulin release. Enhance satiety and prolonged feeling of fullness

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Enzyme possess 3’ to 5’ exonuclease activity .

What action does this has?

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Removal of mismatched base pairs during DNA replication.

- Proofreading activity.

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34 yo wo difficulty chewing, trouble speaking, symptoms worse after a long day.
- Symptoms reversible on administration of an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor

Pathogenesis similar to which disease?

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Goodpasture syndrome
- Patient has myasthenia gravis
Type II hypersensitivity.

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18 yo man hematuria and intermittent flank pain
- Compression of left renal vein between SMA and aorta.

What will develop because of this?

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Varicocele ‘‘nutcracker effect’’

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4 yo boy several episodes of vomiting

  • Found mushroom on kid hands
  • Poison stimulates muscarinic receptors

Effect of poison?

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Nitric oxide synthesis

- Increase parasympathetic activity, relaxation and vasodilation.

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23 yo fever, vomiting , diarrhea, temperature 39

  • Diffuse erythematous macular rash resembling sunburn
  • Tampon in the vagina

Responsible for condition?

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Macrophages and T lymphocytes

- Toxic shock syndrome caused by staph aureus.

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Oxygen-hemoglobin dissociation curve, what would cause a shift to the left?

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Hypothermia, decrease 2,3 BPG, increased pH

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4 day old poor feeding and vomiting

  • exaggerated deep tendon reflexes and clonus
  • Impaired transport of ornithine from the cytosol to the mitochondria

Nutritional restrictions of which substance can improve this?

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Proteins

- Ammonia accumulate

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45 yo man suicidal ideation

  • 4.5 kg weight loss
  • He is responsible for all the evil in the world, he has heard a voice for the past week

Diagnosis?

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Major depressive disorder with psychotic features.

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45 yo man severe dyspnea
- PaCO2 26 / PaO2 54
What is happening?

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Alveolar hyperventilation

- acute pulmonary embolism causes hypoxemia

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33 yo man plays loud the piano nonstop.
- His mood is terrific, he claims is related to the president
- Hears voices telling him he is going to be famous entertainer
- Secret cameras are monitoring him
- No mood symptoms
Diagnosis?

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Schizoaffective disorder

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52 yo wo, DM 6 months ago
- Metformin therapy is initiated
Physiological changes in hepatic gluconeogenesis / muscle glucose uptake / Endogenous insulin production?

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Hepatic gluconeogenesis decreased
Muscle glucose uptake increased
Endogenous insulin production unchanged

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28 yo wo cesarian delivery

  • intermittent sharp pain over well healed transverse scar
  • Abnormal axonal regeneration is suspected

Ion channel most likely upregulated?

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Sodium ‘‘propagation of action potentials’’

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38 yo right sided facial pain, knife stabbing my face
- Instigated by a meal or teeth brushing

Best initial treatment?

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Carbamazepine

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36 yo man gout treated with prednisone

  • Uric acid level is 13.5
  • Allopurinol is prescribed

This last drug will increase activity of which medication?

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Azathioprine

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95% confidence interval was 1.02 -1.85

Which p-values is most consistent with the results?

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Either 5% or lower

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26 yo wo when she chews she hears a clicking noise in right ear

  • She has been grinding her teeth at night
  • Spasms of which muscle?
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Masseter and pterygoid muscle

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35 yo man acute right knee pain and swelling

  • pain climbing stairs
  • Diarrheal illness 2 weeks before onset
  • Joint aspirate no bacteria

Most likely associated with symptoms?

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Histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27
- Reactive arthritis occurs with chlamydia, campylobacter, salmonella, shigella or yersinia.
Deposition of Immune complexes

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20 yo flattening of right deltoid muscle

  • most likely injury?
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Anterior dislocation of the humerus

- Axillary nerve injury

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45 motor vehicle accident

  • Unable to void, resistance encountered when catheter is inserted
  • Left hemothorax and pelvic fracture

Portion of urogenital tract damage?

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Posterior urethra - membranous segment

  • Bulbous segment most common damage in straddle injury
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6 yo girl abdominal pain

  • 2 episodes of non bilious emesis
  • erythematous macular rash over her legs and back
  • Urine blood and protein

Renal abnormality?

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Mesangial deposition of IgA

- Henoch-Schonlein purpura

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32 yo woman vaginal discharge
- cytology shows clue cells

Organism?

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Anaerobic gram-variable rod

- Bacterial vaginosis ‘’ gardenerella vaginalis’’

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78 yo man fever, cough shortness of breath

  • Living facilities owning several pets
  • Dullness to percussion and bronchial breath sounds
  • Left lower consolidation, gram negative diplococci

Most helpfull in preveting lung infection?

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Vaccination with bacterial polysaccharide

- S pneumo most common

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30 yo man dyspnea and hypoxia - pulmonary angiography shows arteriovenous malformation Cause of hypoxia?
Increased right-to left shunting
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baby with small head and eyes - cleft lip and palate, round punched out lesion with an overlying thin membrane on patient's scalp - Bowel protrudes from patient's abdominal midline Responsible for condition?
Patau syndrome | - Cutis aplasia ''membrane on scalp''
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55 yo type II DM and obesity - bicarbonate is low - Normal anion gap Likely diagnosis?
Renal tubular acidosis , severe diarrhea, excesive saline infusion.
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68 yo recurrent bacterial sinusitis, pneumonia and urinary tract infections - normocytic normochromic anemia - Bone marrow shows clock face cells Cause of increased susceptibility to infections?
Decrease production of functional immunoglobulins | - Multiple myeloma
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73 yo severe pain and discharge from left ear - granulation tissue in left ear canal with scant amount of discharge - Culture grow gram-negative rod Describe organism?
Motile and oxidase positive | - Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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66 yo shows 10cm perihilar mass in right lung - Results show non -small lung cancer - Plenty of people in the room Physician should ask?
Is there anyone you would like to remain in the room while we talk about your results
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30 yo man sudden onset of severe headache and confusion - autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease - Blood in subarachnoid space - New onset weakness in right arm and leg 5 day after admission Medication could have prevented the complications?
Calcium channel blocker | improves outcome of cerebral vasospasm by inducing cerebral vasodilation
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ATP attaches to sarcomere, this causes?
Myosin head detachment from the actin filament
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6 yo girl itchy rash on face - Rash began 3 weeks ago - Tacrolimus is prescribed MOA?
Inhibition of T-lymphocyte signaling
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6 yo boy bruises easily, appears pale - Massive splenomegaly, platelet count is low/ Hepatomegaly - Marrow shows wrinkled tissue paper appearance Diagnosis?
Gaucher disease | - Lipid laden macrophages
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``` 41 yo 4 months history of fatigue, headache, weight loss, sweating - Lid lag and fine hand tremor - Enlargement of thyroid gland TSH 10 T4 is 3 T3 is 400 ``` Cause of disorder?
pituitary tumor | Hyperthyroidism , elevated TSH pituitary adenoma
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What hormone level would increase at breakfast , lunch and dinner time?
Ghrelin
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40 yo wo malaise, fever, productive cough, pleuritic chest pain - HIV, injection drug - Lung examination reveal lancet shape image Pathogenic factor that contributes to lung infection?
Antiphagocytic microbial capsule | - Strep pneumo
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35 yo genital warts on labia majora | - This could also infect?
True vocal cords
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65 yo wo episode of syncope after standing - Advanced adenomatous changes in one polyp and adenocarcinoma in other Responsible for transformation of advanced adenoma to carcinoma?
TP53
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Neural crest cell migration in human fetus is interrupted during the 12th week This results in lack of innervation where?
Rectum | - Hirschsprung disease
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64 yo man severe abdominal pain, nausea, hypertension, MI, systolic heart failure Respirations are 24/min Sodium 136, bicarbonate 12, pH 7.2/ PaCO2 26/ lactic acid 6.2 Abdomen reveals distal ideal wall thickening and lack of enhancement Decreased activity of which enzyme?
Pyruvate dehydrogenase - Patient suffering from acute mesenteric ischema. Inadequate O2 present in tissues, pyruvate is converted to lactate
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54 yo man, headaches and leg weakness - Physical examination shows neurofibromas and cafe au last spot Inheritance pattern?
Neurofibromatosis type I | - Autosomal dominant
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2 yo boy - My boy is always sick, otitis media, skin infections, pneumonia, staph aureus - Testing shows absent CD18 antigen on surface of leukocytes Associated with?
Persistent leukocytosis - Leukocytes adhesion deficiency CD18 necessary for formation of integrins - Late umbilical cord separation
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52 yo enlarging neck mass, fatigue and weight loss - enlarged tonsils and splenomegaly - Large B cells have replaces normal tissue. + for Epstein Barr virus Risk factor associated with condition?
Advanced HIV infection | - Non Hodgkin lymphoma , immune dysregulation
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Therapy X Standard alive 1 year 40 51 Dead 1 year 60 69 Number need to harm for therapy regimen?
NNH = 1/ Absolute risk increase Adverse in therapy: 60/100 Adverse in standard: 69/120 0.6 - 0.575 = 0.025 ( 2.5%) 1/0.025 = 40 persons
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65 yo man fevers and chills - Lives eastern massachusetts - enjoying gardening and swimming - Traveled to Thailand 2 years ago and to florida 2 months ago - Coarse crackles, palpable splenomegaly, nor rash or open wound Exhibit shows intraerythrocytic ring inclusions Diagnosis source?
Ixodes tick, | - Babesiosis
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1 week old boy recurrent vomiting - Sunken fontanelle and dry mucous membranes - Sodium 122 / Potassium 5.7 Findings in cortisol / aldosterone/ serum ACTH / 17 hydroxyprogesterone?
Cortisol decrease Aldosterone decrease Serum ACTH increase 17 hydroxyprogesterone increase COngenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21 hydroxylase deficiency
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Ashkenazi jewish descent - enzyme deficiency that results in decreased degradation of phospholipid substrate to ceramide which leads to buildup of phospholipid. Clinical features of affected child?
Retinal opacification and splenomegaly | - Niemma pick disease deficiency of sphigomyelinase
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Blurred vision worse when he reads - Took diphenhydramine for allergies - Visual symptoms are due to blockade of which mediator?
Acetylcholine | - Anticholinergic effect of 1st generation antihistamine cause these symptoms
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28 yo insomnia - Hypersenstitive to loud sounds - Friend being blown up after step-in on a landmine - Anxious mood Appropriate pharmacotherapy?
SSRI's
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21 day old boy - Bulge in his neck - Looks toward right and cries then head is turned left - Mass on neck does not move when child swallows Condition present prenatally?
Intrauterine malposition - Congenital torticollis - Sternocleidomastoid muscle injury
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35 yo man respirations are 12/min pH7.54 / PaCO2 49 What study would be helpful in determining patient acid-base abnormality?
Urine chloride - Metabolic alkalosis - Low CL impairs renal excretion of HCO3
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64 yo man dyspnea on exertion - Hypertension several years ago - Dullness to percussion and decreased breath sounds - Right sided pleural effusion ``` Pleuropulmonary changes are most likely in Vascular permeability Vascular hydrostatic pressure Vascular oncotic pressure Lymphatic flow ```
Vascular permeability normal Vascular hydrostatic pressure increase Vascular oncotic pressure normal Lymphatic flow increased
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24 yo motorcycle collision - Patient opens eyes spontaneously gazing around the room but does not track objects - Moves all 4 extremities, but movements are not purposeful Diagnosis?
Persistent vegetative state
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Prostate adenocarcinoma, radical prostatectomy is done. - Nerves within the fascia surrounding the gland are injured Consequence?
Erectile dysfunction ''prostatic plexus'' innervates corpus cavernosa
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52 yo man right pupil is 3mm and left is 5mm. Light is dimmed, anisocoria increases - Location of lesion?
Right oculosympathetic pathway
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12 yo rash posterior neck - Pruritic with the cooler weather and patient scratch his neck Cause of rash?
Genetically mediated skin barrier dysfunction | - Chronic atopic dermatitis , epidermal barrier dysfunction
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40 yo wo anemia - increasing heavy irregular menses - 24hs After transfusion of blood developed yellowing of the eyes and face but no hepatosplenomegaly Antibody-antigen reaction?
Patient's antibodies against the blood product minor red blood cell antigen - Delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions.
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65 yo man pain, redness and swelling in his calf - Cellulitis and clindamycin - Watery diarrhea and abdominal cramps - Toxin responsible affects what component?
Cytoskeleton integrity | - C difficile
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35 yo man urethral discharge - neutrophils and intra gram negative diplococci - Infection resolves, but had similar 3 months ago Reason for recurrence of infection?
High variability of microbial antigenic structure