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1. What is the clinical picture (ie patterns, and signs and symptoms, including different severities)? How might you pick it up in clinic? - Answers--sudden shortness of breath, chest pain, dizziness, light head, fainting, palpiation, irregular heart beat, coughin and sometimes with blood, irregular sweating. It's important to note the SUDDEN onset in clinical features. 1. What is pulmonary hypertension? be able to describe signs symptoms, causes, effects and complications. - Answers--incre...

Which is more common? - Answers-Glottic Carcinoma Glottic Carcinoma What are the two forms of atelectasis neonatorum? - Answers-Primary = failure of initial aeration of lungs Secondary = collapse of previously aerated lungs Acute diffuse alveolar damage involves necrosis of which cells? What is the recovery process like for this? - Answers-Type I pneumocytes Hyperplasia of type II pneumocytes and interstitial fibrosis True or false: ARDS is associated with severe hypoxem...

What is involved in Cushing's Syndrome? - Answers-increased ACTH, bilateral adrenal hyperplasia, moon face, buffalo hump, weight gain, sweating, striations on the skin, telangiectasia, baldness, insomnia Patients who have adenocarcinoma with mutations in the EGFR gene respond to what treatment? - Answers-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (Gefitinib and Erlotinib) (and they respond to pemetrexed) In what patients is Bevacizumab contraindicated? - Answers-Squamous cell carcinoma patients Causes...