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Lateral area of the hypothalamus
Hunger
Destruction leads to anorexia, failure to thrive.
Inhibited by Leptin
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Ventral anterior nucleus of the thalamus
Basal ganglia
to
prefrontal, premotor and orbital cotrices
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The indirect/inhibitory pathway
- Cortex inhibits GPe ->
- no inhibition of STN ->
- activation of GPi ->
- Inhibition of the thalamus ->
- inhibition of movement
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Central pontine myelinosis
Acute paralysis, dysarthria, dysphagia, diplopia, and loss of consciousness. Irreversible
Caused by rapid correction of hyponatremia
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Lateral medullary syndrome
Posterior inferior cerebellar artery
- Pain and temp loss C/L body
- Pain and temp loss I/L face
- No gag reflex
- Horner's syndrome I/L
- nystagmus
- cerebellar problems I/L
- vertigo
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Origin of the meningeal artery
- External carotid ->
- maxillary artery ->
- meningeal artery
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Irreversible neuronal injury
- red neurons (12-48 hours)
- necrosis & neutrophils (24-72 hours)
- macrophages (3-5 days)
- reactive gliosis + vascular proliferation(1-2 weeks)
- glial scar (>2 weeks)
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Hepatoduodenal ligament
Liver to duodenum
- Contains: Portal Triad
- - hepatic artery
- portal vein
- Common bile duct
Contains greater and lesser sacs
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Menetrier's disease
- Gastric hypertrophy with protein loss, parietal cell atrophy, and increase mucous cells.
- Precancerous
- Rugae of stomach are so hypertophied that they look like brain gyri
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Lewy body dementia
- Parkinsonism with dementia and visual hallucinations
- repeated falls and syncope
HISTO: a-synuclein defect
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cerebral amyloid angiopathy
B amyloid deposits in artery -> weakening -> rupture -> recurrent lobar hemorrhage
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Sturge-Weber syndrome
Congenital disorder with port-wine stains(aka nevus flammeus), typically in V1 ophthalmic distribution; I/L leptomeningeal angiomas, pheochromocytomas.
Can cause glaucoma, seizures, hemiparesis, and mental retardation.
Occurs sporadically
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Methoxyflurane
High solubility in lipid and blood = slow induction but high potency
- EFFECTS:
- myocardial depression
- respiratory depression
- increased cerebral blood flow (inc ICP)
- Toxicity:
- nephrotoxic
- malignant hyperthermia
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Parkinsons drugs
- Agonize Dopamine receptors:
- - Bromocriptine, ropinirole, pramipexole
- Inc dopamine:
- - l-dopa/carbidopa
- - Amantidine (increase dopamine release)
- Inhibit Dopamine breakdown
- - Selegiline (MAOB-I)
- - entacapone, tolcapone (COMT I)
- Dec ach amount
- - Benztropine
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Alzheimers Treatment
- Memantine- NMDA receptor antagonist
- - S/E: Dizziness, confusion, hallucinations
- Donepezil, galantimine, rivastigmine
- - AChE inhibitors
- - S/E: Nausea, dizziness, insomnia
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MUDPILES
- Methanol
- Uremia
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Paraldehyde
- INH or iron tablets
- Lactic acidosis
- Ethylene glycol
- Salicylates
Causes of anion gap metabolic acidosis
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Branches of the abdominal aorta and spinal level correspondence
- Celiac trunk- T12
- Superior mesenteric artery - L1
- Renal artery- L1
- Testicular/ ovarian arteries- L2
- Inferior mesenteric artery- L3
- Bifurcation of abdominal aorta- L4
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Anastomosis of the greater curvature of the stomach
Left gastroepiploic <- splenic artery <- celiac trunk
Right gastroepiploic <- gastroduodenal <- common hepatic <- celiac trunk
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Boerhave syndrome
Transmural esophageal rupture due to violent retching
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Abetalipoproteinemia
Autosomal recessive
dec synthesis of apo B -> inability to generate chylomicrons -> dec synthesis of cholesterol, VLDL into bloddstream -> fat accumulation in enterocytes.
- Presents in childhood with malabsorption and progressive ataxia and retinitis pigmentosa
- RBC acanthocytes
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Chronic gastritis Type A
fundus/body
- Autoimmune disorder w/ ab to parietal cells
- pernicious anemia
- achlorhydria
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Difference between ulcers and erosions
Erosions dont invade the muscularis mucosa
ulcers invade the muscularis mucosa
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What is Meckels diverticulum
Persistence of the vitelline duct or yolk stalk
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CRC progression
- normal -> (APC)->
- early adenoma -> (KRAS)->
- late adenoma -> (P53, DCC) ->
- adenocarcinoma
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Effects of liver failure
- Coma (hepatic encephlopathy)
- Scleral icterus
- Fetor hepaticus
- Spider nevi
- Gynecomastia
- Jaundice
- Testicular atrophy
- asterixis
- Bleeding tendency (dec prothrombin and clotting factors)
- Anemia
- Ankle edema
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Alcoholic hepatitis
Requires sustained, long term consumption of alcohol
- Swollen and necrotic hepatocytes with neutrophilic infiltration
- Mallory bodies (intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusions)
AST > ALT (>1.5)
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Budd Chiari syndrome
Occlusion of IVC or hepatic vein with centrilobular congestion and necrosis -> congestive liver disease
No JVD
Associated with hypercoaguable state, polycythemia vera, pregnancy, and hepatocellular carcinoma
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Differences between
Secondary Biliary cirrhosis
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Secondary Biliary Cirrhosis:
- - extrahepatic biliary obstruction -> increase pressure in intrahepatic ducts -> injury/fibrosis and bile stasis
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- - Autoimmune reaction -> lymphocytic infiltrate + granulomas.
- - Inc serum mitochondrial antibody (IgM)
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis:
- - Unknown cause of concentric "onion skin" bile duct fibrosis -> alternating strictures and dilation with "beading" of intra and extrahepatic bile ducts on ERCP
- - P-ANCA (60% +)
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Acute pancreatitis leads to
- DIC
- ARDS
- diffuse fat necrosis
- hypocalcemia (calcium soap deposits)
- pseudocyst formation
- hemorrhage
- infection
- multiorgan failure
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Presentation of Pancreatic adenocarcinoma
- Abdominal pain radiating to back
- Weight loss (malabsorption and anorexia)
- Trousseau syndrome (Migratory thrombophlebitis- redness and tenderness on palpation of extremities)
- Courvoisier's sign (obstructive jaundice with palpable gallbladder)
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Cimetidine
Reversible blockade of H2 receptors -> dec H+ secretion by parietal cells
- TOXICITY:
- - P 450 inhibitor
- - antiandrogenic effects (prolactin, gynecomastia, impotence)
- - crosses blood brain barrier (confusion)
- - crosses placenta
- - decrease renal excretion of creatinine
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Misoprostol
PGE1 analog
- - increase production & secretion of gastric mucous barrier
- - decrease acid production
- - maintain patent ductus arteriosus
- - induce labor/ abortion
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Sulfasalazine
Sulfapyridine (antibacterial) + 5-aminosalicylic acid (anti-inflammatory)
activated by colonic bacteria
USED: crohns, ulcerative colitis
- TOXICITY: reversible oligospermia and
- skin reactions:
- - erythema multiforme
- - steven johnson syndrome
- - exfoliative dermatitis
- - toxic epidermal necrolysis
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Cardinal ligament in the female reproductive tract
Cervix to side wall of pelvis
Contains uterine vessels
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Innervation of male sexual response
Erection- Parasympathetic via pelvic nerve
Emission- Sympathetic via hypogastric nerve
Ejaculation- visceral and somatic via pudendal nerve
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Oogensis arrest phase
Meisosis I is arrested in Prophase for years until ovulation
Meisosis II is arrested in Metaphase until fertilization
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hCG
Produced in the syncytiotrophoblast of placenta
- Maintains corpus leuteum by acting as LH until placenta makes estriol and progesterone
- Detection of pregnancy (2 weeks in urine)
- Elevated in pathologic states:
- - hydatidiform moles
- - choriocarcinoma
- - gestational trophoblastic tumors
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Kallman syndrome
- decrease synthesis of gonadotropin in the anterior pituitary
- anosmia
- lack of secondary sexual characteristics
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Follicular cyst of ovary
- Distention of unruptured graafiain follicle.
- Associated with hyperestrinism and endometrial hyperplasia
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Choriocarcinoma
Malignant
- Abnormal proliferation of both cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts
- no villi are present
- Tumor marker hCG
- inc frequency of theca-lutein cysts
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Fibroma
Stromal tumor
- Bundles of spindle-shaped fibroblasts
- Meigs syndrome- ovarian fibroma, ascites and hydrothorax
- Pulling sensation in groin
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Invasive ductal carcinoma
Firm, fibrous, rock hard mass with sharp margins and small glandular duct like cells.
Worst and most invasive. Most common
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Treatment for Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Terazosin (a1-antagonist w/ effects on blood vessels)
tamsulosin (a1- antagonist w/ no effect on blood vessels)
finasteride- 5 a reductase inhibitor
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Circumflex artery of the heart
Supplies the posterior left ventricle
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Contractility and SV decrease with:
- B blockade (dec cAMP)
- Systolic heart failure
- Acidosis
- Hypoxia/hypercapnea
- non-dihydropyridine
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What increases viscocity of blood
- polycythemia
- hyperproteinemic state
- hereditary spherocytosis
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Left sternal border heartsounds
- DIASTOLIC:
- Aortic regurgitation
- Pulmonic regurgitation
- SYSTOLIC:
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
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Rheumatic fever most common cardiac abnormality
Mitral valve stenosis
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Phase 2 of the ventricular action potential
Plateau- Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated Ca2+ channels balances K+ efflux
Ca2+ influx triggers Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum and myocyte contraction
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Cardiac conduction speeds
FASTEST TO SLOWEST
- Purkinje system
- Atrial muscle
- Ventricular muscle
- AV node
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