-Boards Trivia-

Here's a list of facts which are emphasized in review books but didn't make it into our lectures.

Pregnant woman with hypertension develops drug-induced SLE.  What was the drug? Hydralazine

Patient with ventricular arrhythmia treated with Class I antiarrhythmic develops SLE  - procainamide

In kidney donor what changes in GFR, creatinine concentration, creatinine excretion?

     ↔Creatinine excretion = ↓GFR x ↑Creatinine concentration

NE and Epiniphrine change total peripheral resistance how? NE increases through alpha receptors

     epiniphrine decreases through beta receptors

Which factor is involved is necessary for the fibrinolytic pathway? XII (deficiency causes thrombosis

       NOT hemorrhage)

Drug to treat hypertension that can cause muscle damage? statins

Psammoma bodies are calcium deposits found in what conditions? meningiomas, papillary carcinomy

       of thyroid, cystadenocarinoma of ovary, mesothelioma

Amino acid necessary to convert ammonia to urea? arginine

Treatment for malignant hyperthermia? dantrolene - blocks the release of calcium from sarcoplasmic

       reticulum

Cardiac defect associated with mumps? endocardial fibroelastosis

Vasculitis (ie: maculopapular rash) + eosinophilia = Churg Strauss syndrome (variant of polyarteritis

       nodosa).  May present with asthma

Persistent infections + eczema + thrombocytopenia (ie petechiae) = Wiscott Aldrich syndrome

Which antiviral can be used in immunocomprimised? Ganciclovir, not acyclovir