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COCAINE intoxication - correct answers✔️✔️impaired judgement, pupil dilate,
hallucination (coke bugs) sudden cardiac death; paranoid ideations, angina
Tx: alpha blockers/ benzos
caution B block bc can cause unopposed alpha
Osteoporosis histo - correct answers✔️✔️trabecular and cortical bone lose mass
and interconnection despite normal bone mineralization
assoc w/ Colles fracture- distal radial fracture; fracture of femoral neck
Gilbert Syndrome - correct answers✔️✔️mild dec UDP glucuronosyltransferase
conjugation and impaired bilirubin uptake; asymptomatic or mild jaundice>> inc
unconjugated bilirubin w/o hemolysis; w/ fasting and stress
Crigler Najjar - correct answers✔️✔️ABSENT UDP glucuronsyltransferase; early in
life; die few years
find: jaundice, kernicterus (in brain) inc unconjugated bilirubin;
SUCCESS
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tx: plasmapheresis and phototherapy; type II respond phenobarbital
Dubin Johnson - correct answers✔️✔C
️ onjugated hyperbilirubinemia b/c
defective liver excretion;
grossly black liver
Benign
Rotor syndrome - correct answers✔️✔️milder in presentation w/o black liver
impaired hepatic uptake and excretion
wilson Disease - correct answers✔️✔️copper transporting ATPase; ATP7B on
Chromosome 13
s/s: before 40 yo, liver dz, neurodisease, psych dz, Kayser Fleischer ring, hemolytic
anemia, renal dz;
find: dec serum ceruloplasmin, inc urine copper
tx: chelation w/ penicillamine or Tridentine, oral zinc
Hemochromatosis - correct answers✔️✔️recessive, HFE, chromosome 6;
abnormal iron sensing, increase intestinal absorb
find: inc ferritin, inc iron, dec TIBC, inc transferrin saturation
identify w/ Prussian blue stain/ liver MRI
SUCCESS
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Hemochromatosis finds - correct answers✔️✔️after age 40
>20 iron;
triad: cirrhosis, DM, skin pigmentation; dilated cardiomyopathy, hypogonadism,
arhtropathy; HCC is common cause death
Treatment Hemochromatosis - correct answers✔️✔️repeat phlebotomy,
chelation deferasirox, deferoxamine, oral deferiprone
Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome - correct answers✔️✔️MC ventricular pre
excitation syndrome
abnml fast atria to ventricle (bundle of Kent); bypasses AV node>> ventricles
begin partially depolarization earlier (NOTED BY DELTA WAVE ON EKG) widened
QRS and shortened PR
Conduction pathway heart - correct answers✔️✔️SA node> atira> AV node>
bundle HIS, R and L bundle branches> purkinje fibers> ventricles
L branch anterior/posterior fascicles
Edema - correct answers✔️✔️inc capillary pressure
dec plasma proteins (dec oncotic capillary pressure)
inc capillary permeability
increase interstitial fluid colloid oncotic pressure
SUCCESS
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Celiac Disease - correct answers✔️✔️setting: 14 mo kid losing weight eating lots
of foods;
histology: crypt abnormalities (hyperplasia); villous atrophy, lymphocytic
infiltration
presents as malabsorbtion (diarrhea etc in kids)
in adults= short stature, anemia delayed puberty
Musculocutaneous nerve C5-C7 - correct answers✔️✔u ️ pper trunk compression
cause injury; loss forearm flexion/supination; loss sensation over lateral forearm
Axillary nerve C5-C6 - correct answers✔️✔️flat deltoid; loss arm abduction, loss
sensation over deltoid and lateral arm
Radial C5-T1 - correct answers✔️✔️mid shaft fracture humerus, compression
axilla
find: dec grip, loss extension (wrist drop); loss sensation posterior arm, dorsal
hand
Median C5-T1 - correct answers✔️✔️supracondylar fracture humerus (proximal)
CTS, wrist laceration (distal)
ape hand pope's blessing
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