ALU 201 CORE REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Primary Progressive MS - ✔✔A form of MS without any relapses or remissions
Accounts for 10 percent of MS Cases
Affects men and women after age 40
✔✔Complications of GERD - ✔✔Inflammation of GI
Ulceration
Bleeding
Formation of Strictures
✔✔Common causes of aortic stenosis - ✔✔Congenital abnormalities
Valvular Calcification
Rheumatic Disease
✔✔Factors that affect prognosis of hereditary hemochromatosis - ✔✔Early dx
compliance
Removal of excess iron
maintain iron below normal levels
If caught before fibrosis/cirrohsis, survival increases from 33 percent to 89 percent
✔✔Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Enlargement of parathyroid gland
, Excessive production of PTH
Causes parathyroid adenoma
Four-gland hyperplasia < 15% of cases
✔✔Symptoms of Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Thirst
Abdominal pain
Kidney Stones
Mental Confusion
Coma
Polyuria
✔✔Treatment for Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Surgery
Surgery cures this condition and mortality rates return to normal/standard
✔✔A transesophageal echocardiogram is used to assess all of the following heart
diseases - ✔✔Endocarditis
Aortic Root Disease
Atrial Septal Defect
✔✔Types of Rheumatic Disease - ✔✔Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteocarthritis
Gout/Crystal-induced arthritis
Systemic Lupus
Tests abnormalities - ANA or RF+ are non-specific
✔✔What are risk factors for type 2 Endometrial CA - ✔✔It usually affects women 70+
Highest Mortality
SET A+
✔✔Primary Progressive MS - ✔✔A form of MS without any relapses or remissions
Accounts for 10 percent of MS Cases
Affects men and women after age 40
✔✔Complications of GERD - ✔✔Inflammation of GI
Ulceration
Bleeding
Formation of Strictures
✔✔Common causes of aortic stenosis - ✔✔Congenital abnormalities
Valvular Calcification
Rheumatic Disease
✔✔Factors that affect prognosis of hereditary hemochromatosis - ✔✔Early dx
compliance
Removal of excess iron
maintain iron below normal levels
If caught before fibrosis/cirrohsis, survival increases from 33 percent to 89 percent
✔✔Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Enlargement of parathyroid gland
, Excessive production of PTH
Causes parathyroid adenoma
Four-gland hyperplasia < 15% of cases
✔✔Symptoms of Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Thirst
Abdominal pain
Kidney Stones
Mental Confusion
Coma
Polyuria
✔✔Treatment for Hyperparathyroidism - ✔✔Surgery
Surgery cures this condition and mortality rates return to normal/standard
✔✔A transesophageal echocardiogram is used to assess all of the following heart
diseases - ✔✔Endocarditis
Aortic Root Disease
Atrial Septal Defect
✔✔Types of Rheumatic Disease - ✔✔Rheumatoid Arthritis
Osteocarthritis
Gout/Crystal-induced arthritis
Systemic Lupus
Tests abnormalities - ANA or RF+ are non-specific
✔✔What are risk factors for type 2 Endometrial CA - ✔✔It usually affects women 70+
Highest Mortality
