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1
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increase GH

A

gigantism-C

acromegaly-A

2
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increase TSH

A

Graves

3
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decrease TSH

A

myxedema

cretinism- kids

4
Q

increase ACTH

A

Cushings- moon face, hirsutism, buffalo hump

5
Q

decrease ACTH

A

addisons- bronze skin, hypotension

6
Q

tertiary stage syphilis involves vasa vasorum

A

syphilitc aortitis

7
Q

aortic arch syndrome-occlusive thromboaortopathy

A

Takayasu

8
Q

what inflames temporal and intracranial arteries and can cause blindness

A

giant cell arteritis

temporal arteritis

9
Q

polyarteritis nodosa

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young adults, nodular reddish swellings, narrows arteries from fibrosis

10
Q

necrotizing vasculitis of lungs, kidneys and nasopharynx

A

Wegener’s granulomatosis

11
Q

triphasic color change in raynauds

A

pallor
cyanosis
rubor

12
Q

mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome in children with conjunctival and oral edema MI

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kawasaki-death 3%

13
Q

heme production disrupted, dark purple urine

A

porphyria

14
Q

fault synthesis hemoglobin, severe anemia

A

thalassemia

15
Q

lymph cancer associated with chromosome 8

A

Burkitts lymphoma

16
Q

MC breast tumor

A

fibroadenoma

17
Q

MC form of invasive breast cancer

A

invasive ductal carcinoma- in situ

18
Q

penial cancer that is in situ stage of squamous cell carcinoma, shaft of penis

A

Bowen disease

19
Q

autosomal recessive β-globin mutation, carrier status is in heterozygous patients, but the disease develops in homozygous patients

A

sickle cell anemia

20
Q

sickled RBCs are prone to clotting, which is a risk for a lethal stroke or acute chest syndrome

A

sickle cell disease

21
Q

known to affect Mediterranean patients, autosomal recessive β-globin mutation, excess of opposite globin chain damages RBCs, which results in hemolysis

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B-thalassemia

22
Q

Heinz bodies or bite cells

A

GP6D

23
Q

aggressive childhood leukemia, B cell cancer age 4

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acute lymphoblastic leukemia

24
Q

MC adult leukemia, B cell age 60

A

chronic lymphocytic leukemia

25
Q

B cell cancer that characteristically affects the facial bone of African children, well-known for it’s “starry sky” pattern on biopsy

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Burkitts lymphoma

26
Q

salt and pepper appearance with skull bone erosion

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Hyperparathyroidism

27
Q

aggressive cancer of marrow myeloblasts, affects adults (as all myeloid cancers do), has characteristic Auer Rods on marrow biopsy

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acute myeloid leukemia

28
Q

myeloid cancer of adults, quickly spreads to other organs (like the spleen), has characteristic Philadelphia chromosome, which is from a t(9:22) and produces a BCR-ABL fusion gene

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chronic myelogenous leukemia

29
Q

cancerous cause of too many RBCs

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polycythemia vera

30
Q

elevated blood pressure in the protal venous system (veins of the liver), which produces… ascites, esophageal varices, or caput medusae

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portal HTN