Diseases for FOM final Flashcards
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Werner’s Syndrome
Symptoms - premature aging, cancer at several sites, genome instability Cause - Enzyme defects in 3’ exonuclease function and DNA helicase
Essential fructosuria
Beneign defeciency in fructokinase leads to false positives in diabetes urine testing
Turner’s Syndrome
1/5000 x deletion in females.
Symptoms - acute hepatic crisis, similar to HHH, begin 2-4 months after birth, jaundice, hepatomegaly, elevated AST/ALT, hypoglycemia, succinylacetone in blood Causes - disorder in fumaryloacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) Treatment - Nitosinone - prevents production of homogentisate
Tyrosinemia I
Symptoms - high fluid pressure and lens glycosylation of eye. Blindness and vision loss. Causes - hyperglycemia (glucose fructose or galactose) causing sugars to utilize the polyol pathway which causes high concentrations of fructose and sorbitol in the eye –> increased osmotic pressure and non-enzymatic glycosylation of the lens
Cataracts
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Symptoms - siezures, cognitive delay, light complexion, mousy odor, high phenylalanine and low tyrosine Causes - disorder with enzyme that converts phe to tyr Treatments - low phe diets
1/5000 x deletion in females.
Turner’s Syndrome
Symptoms - benign or malignant growths of tissues such as hair, muscle, bits of teeth etc. Cause - uncontrolled growth of germ cells.
Teratocarcinomas
Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)
Symptoms - lymphocytes below 500/ml3, costochondral junction dysplasia Causes - defeciency of adenosine deaminase (ADA) –> accumulation of 2-deoxyadenosine –> toxic to lymphocytes Treatment - bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy
Symptoms - autism/siezure disorder Causes - hyperactive branch chain breakdown enzymes Treatment - High BCAA diet
Familial Autism
1/1000 males, caused by extra copies of xxy
Klinefelter’s Syndrome
Ryanidine becomes unbound in the presence of halothane or other anesthetics resulting in continuous calcium pumping. Burning of ATP for this gives off heat.
Malignant Hyperthermia
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS)
Symptoms - developmental mental retardation Causes - PW is silenced on maternal gene, so if mutation occurs on paternal gene disease is expressed due to missing gene. If maternal imprinting problems of PW gene overactivity causes disease as well. NEED ONE ACTIVE SNORD GENE.
squamous cell carcinoma
malignant epithelial neoplasm showing squamous differentiation
Eptsein-Barr Virus
Not directly oncogenic, but is implicated in Burkitt lymphoma (lymphoma of b lymphocytes)
Hyperkalemia
Symptoms - decreased heart contractility Causes - excessive potassium in blood leading to depolarization of muscle cells. Due to trauma, kidney problems etc TREATMENT - 1.) Ca gluconate to hyperpolarize RMP 2.) insulin to pump K+ into cells 3.) dialysis to resolve problems longer term
Cataracts
Symptoms - high fluid pressure and lens glycosylation of eye. Blindness and vision loss. Causes - hyperglycemia (glucose fructose or galactose) causing sugars to utilize the polyol pathway which causes high concentrations of fructose and sorbitol in the eye –> increased osmotic pressure and non-enzymatic glycosylation of the lens
No ApoCA1 protein thus large increases in VLDL and LDL due to inability to bind LPL. Early cardiovascular problems
Tangier’s disease
Symptoms - RBC rupturing, jaundice, and splenomegaly. Cause - unusual cytoskeletal support system leading to RBC’s losing their biconcave shape.
Hereditary spheorcytosis
GSD III (cori disease)
Symptoms - fasting hypoglycemia, KETOACIDOSIS, hyperlipidemia, hepatomegaly with elevated AST/ALT, Causes - deficiency of 1,6 glucosisdase activity of debranching enzyme Treatment - frequent high carb meals
Symptoms - self injury (biting lips and fingers, elevated uric acid, mental retardation, dystonia, recurrent vomiting, often die in 30s due to renal failure Cause - rare x linked disorder, defeciency in hypoxanthine-guanine phoshporibosyltransferase (HGPRT) He’s Got Purine Recycline Trouble Treatment -allopurinol to decrease uric acid
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Neurofibromatosis (NF1)
Symptoms - multiple benign fleshy tumors called neurofibromas in the skin; multiple flat, irregular pigmented skin lesions called cafe au lait spots; hamaratomas of the iris Cause - autosomal dominant disease with variable expressivity (differing diseased phenotypes with the same genotype) with full penetrance (all who have the mutation show disease)
Symptoms - plaques on hands and feet, corneal ulcers, mental retardation, elevate tyr Causes - rare autosomal recessive mutation in tyrosine aminotransferase Treatment - diet low in tyr
Tyrosemia II
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Symptoms - self injury (biting lips and fingers, elevated uric acid, mental retardation, dystonia, recurrent vomiting, often die in 30s due to renal failure Cause - rare x linked disorder, defeciency in hypoxanthine-guanine phoshporibosyltransferase (HGPRT) He’s Got Purine Recycline Trouble Treatment -allopurinol to decrease uric acid