qbq3 Flashcards
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Recurrent Neisseria bacteremia?
C5-C9 deficiency. Complement disorder, or MAC (membrane attack complex) disorder
Oral thrush and seizures, multiple ring enhancing lesions on MRI in brain
Toxoplasmosis
You see foreign DNA in someone’s sacral sensory ganglia. Think?
Sacral: HSV-2. Trigems: HSV-1 or VZV. JC is also neurotropic but doesn„¢¯t affect sensory ganglia.
First line for SVT?
Adenosine.
You think a kid is being abused because he keeps coming in with broken bones, but then you notice his eyes are blue„¢?
Osteogenesis imperfecta. Problem with type I collagen –> problem forming triple helix in collagen (occurs in ER)
Sphingomyelin
Neimann-Pick (Neimann Sphick)
Hypertriglyceridemia leads to?
Pancreatitis
sNRPs?
Role in pre-mRNA splicing out introns. Part of spliceosomes
How do you make niacin and what can go wrong?
Niacin from tryptophan. Requires B6. With Hartnup (decreased tryptophan absorption), carcinoid (increased tryptophan metabolism because serotonin), and INH (decreased B6), can get pellagra –> diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia (similar to B12 deficiency)
DNA replication of prokaryotes
Helicase unwinds DNA at fork and single stranded binding proteins keep it open. Topos (gyrase= topo 2) create nicks to prevent supercoils while this is happening. Primase makes an RNA primer on which DNA poly III can replicate, then DNA poly III does 5–>
What are the purines vs pyramidines?
PUR As Gold, CUT the PY
Which two glycogen storage diseases go together like Gilbert and Crigler Najjar? How can you differentiate them?
Von Gierke’s (Type 1) is glucose 6 phosphatase deficiency (can’t finish gluconeogenesis). Cori’s disease (type III) is debranching enzyme deficiency. Type I has tons of blood lactate and type III has normal blood lactate. Also, type I has fatty liver, typ
Slow growing painless growth on neck. Translocation and disease?
14;18, Follicular lymphoma. BCL-2 upregulated –> antiapoptosis. Can progress to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
Which vitamin carboxylates glutamate?
K
Painful corners of mouth?
Riboflavin deficiency
How does the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis work? Extrinsic?
Intrinsic: Growth factor withdrawn or injury –> p53 activates Bax, allowing cytochrome c to leave the mitochondria (Bcl-2 normally keeps cyt c in mito)–> activation of cytosolic caspases –> cellular breakdown. Extrinsic: Cd95(Fas-R) bound –> apoptosi
UTI in sexually active woman
Straph saproliticus. Novobiocin resistant
Wet beriberi vs dry beriberi. What else might you see in a patient with this?
Thiamine deficiency: impaired glucose breakdown because all those big enzymes need it (pyruvate dehydrogenase, transketolase, alpha ketogluturate, branched-chain amino acid dehydrogenase) –> really aerobic tissues affected first (heart and brain). Wet: High output cardiac failure (dilated cardiomyopathy), edema. Dry: polyneuritis, symmetrical muscle wasting. May also see wernicke-kersakoff –> ataxia, confusion, opthalmoplegia
Fatty stools and fatty intestine with fat soluble vitamin deficiencies and low serum cholesterol?
Abetalipoproteinemia. 116 for biochemistry of it.
What causes hemiballismus?
STN stroke (lacunar) –> figure out what vessel!
Transmural inflammation of arterial wall with fibrinoid necrosis? What organ system are you worried about?
Polyarteritis nodosa, associated with hep B (Bolyarteritis nodosa)
Abdominal pain, neuropsychiatric symptoms, and color change in urine that all improve with glucose?
Acute intermittent porphyria –> effed up heme synthesis so porphyrin builds up and causes symptoms. But earlier than prophyria cutanea tarda, so NO PHOTOSENSITIVITY! Treat with glucose and heme, which inhibit ALA synthase (first step)
Chronic back pain, normocytic anemia, hypercalcemia. What else might you see?
Amyloidosis, renal insufficiency, increased infections. Multiple myeloma, plasma cells replacing everything in bone marrow and activating osteoclasts
Order of syphilitic lesions
Primary = chancre. Secondary = condyloma lata (gray warts). Tertiary = gumma (painless indurated granulomatous lesions–> can progress to white-gray rubbery lesions and can ulcerate). Can tell secondary from tertiary other than appearance, tert would have