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Pathology Assistant ASCP Exam with precise detailed answers || || || || || || ||
Erythema Muliforme - ✔✔"target" archer's bull's eye lesion
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Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome - ✔✔Port wine stain, mucus membranes with hemorrhage || || || || || || || || ||
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma) - ✔✔Liver cancer with malignant vascular tumer from
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exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and others
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Kaposi Sarcoma - ✔✔AIDS, red-purple macules lower extremities
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Pellagra - ✔✔B3 deficiency
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Megloblastic Anemia - ✔✔B12 (Neurologic dysfunction) || || || || ||
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
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Vitamin A Deficiency - ✔✔Night blindness and squamous metaplasia
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Berbiberi - ✔✔B1 deficiency || || ||
Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
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Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
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Marasmus - ✔✔Deficient in all neutrients|| || || || ||
Kwashiorkor - ✔✔Protein deficient || || ||
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Right Coronary Artery - ✔✔Posterior RV free wall and septum
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Posterior LV ||
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant) - ✔✔LV lateral wall
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Left Anterior Descending - ✔✔Apex
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Anterior LV ||
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum || || ||
Arteriolosclerosis - ✔✔Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys, hypertension, diabetes) || || || || || || || ||
Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Plaques (atheroma) in vessels || || || || ||
Arteriosclerosis - ✔✔rigidity, thickening of vessels || || || || ||
Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis - ✔✔Radial and ulnar arteries, calcific sclerosis of the media
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of arteries (so blood flow is not obstructed)
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Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis - ✔✔Streptococcus Viridans, mitral valve ( also include
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aortic valve) ||
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and triscupid valve
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Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
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Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of chordae tendineae
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Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis) - ✔✔Metastatic cancer, wasting
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conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve leaflets
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Peripheral emboliztion ||
Sterile emboli ||
Libman-Sacks Endocarditis - ✔✔Lupus || || ||
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
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Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome - ✔✔Right side cusps thickened endocardial plaques
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Rubella (German Measles) - ✔✔Risk highest shortly before conception to 16th wk gestation
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Right Sided Heart Failure - ✔✔Left sided heart failure
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Pulmonary hypertension ||
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
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Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis) || || ||
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia || || || ||
Nutmeg Liver ||
Distention of neck veins || || ||
Left Sided Heart Failure - ✔✔Ischemic Heart Disease (MI)
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Hypertension
Left valvular disease (aortic and mitral)
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Myocardial diseases ||
Dyspnea and orthopnea || ||
Pleural effusion with hydrothorax
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Reduction in renal perfusion || || ||
Cerebral anoxia ||
Pathology Assistant ASCP Exam with precise detailed answers || || || || || || ||
Erythema Muliforme - ✔✔"target" archer's bull's eye lesion
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Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome - ✔✔Port wine stain, mucus membranes with hemorrhage || || || || || || || || ||
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma) - ✔✔Liver cancer with malignant vascular tumer from
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exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and others
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Kaposi Sarcoma - ✔✔AIDS, red-purple macules lower extremities
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Pellagra - ✔✔B3 deficiency
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Megloblastic Anemia - ✔✔B12 (Neurologic dysfunction) || || || || ||
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
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Vitamin A Deficiency - ✔✔Night blindness and squamous metaplasia
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Berbiberi - ✔✔B1 deficiency || || ||
Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
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Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
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Marasmus - ✔✔Deficient in all neutrients|| || || || ||
Kwashiorkor - ✔✔Protein deficient || || ||
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Right Coronary Artery - ✔✔Posterior RV free wall and septum
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Posterior LV ||
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant) - ✔✔LV lateral wall
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Left Anterior Descending - ✔✔Apex
|| || || ||
Anterior LV ||
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum || || ||
Arteriolosclerosis - ✔✔Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys, hypertension, diabetes) || || || || || || || ||
Atherosclerosis - ✔✔Plaques (atheroma) in vessels || || || || ||
Arteriosclerosis - ✔✔rigidity, thickening of vessels || || || || ||
Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis - ✔✔Radial and ulnar arteries, calcific sclerosis of the media
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of arteries (so blood flow is not obstructed)
|| || || || || || ||
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis - ✔✔Streptococcus Viridans, mitral valve ( also include
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
aortic valve) ||
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and triscupid valve
|| || || || || || ||
Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
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Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of chordae tendineae
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis) - ✔✔Metastatic cancer, wasting
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conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve leaflets
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, 2
Peripheral emboliztion ||
Sterile emboli ||
Libman-Sacks Endocarditis - ✔✔Lupus || || ||
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
|| || || || || || || || ||
Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome - ✔✔Right side cusps thickened endocardial plaques
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Rubella (German Measles) - ✔✔Risk highest shortly before conception to 16th wk gestation
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Right Sided Heart Failure - ✔✔Left sided heart failure
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Pulmonary hypertension ||
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
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Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis) || || ||
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia || || || ||
Nutmeg Liver ||
Distention of neck veins || || ||
Left Sided Heart Failure - ✔✔Ischemic Heart Disease (MI)
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Hypertension
Left valvular disease (aortic and mitral)
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Myocardial diseases ||
Dyspnea and orthopnea || ||
Pleural effusion with hydrothorax
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Reduction in renal perfusion || || ||
Cerebral anoxia ||
