Anatomy
Largest synovial joint; also, a hinge joint
Macule with scales/wrinkling
What is patch?
Form a non-functional molecule that either competes with ATP or inhibits activation of enzymes that use pyrophosphate
What is biphosphonate?
Has 2 main insertions: adductor tubercle of femur and post shaft
What is Adductor Magnus?
Red-purple dots, 5-10mm, palpable
What is purpura?
It's a corticosteroid that prevents transcription of cytokine inflammatory genes
What is Prednisolone?
Its main insertion is the upper medial tibia and its main action is adduction of the thighs at hip, flexion of leg at knee joint.
What is Gracilis?
Name of this clotting factor in a non-blanching rash
Hageman factor (Clotting factor XII)
The only drug that increases/causes bone formation (as opposed to just decreasing bone resorption)
What is teraparatide?
Connective tissue that comparmentalizes the thigh
What is intermuscular septae?
Strawberry tongue, Red face with circumoral pallor are features of this disease.
Cyclosporin forms a cyclosporin-immunophilin complex that inhibits this.
What is calcineurin?
Most susceptible to damage from sudden flexion and extension of the knee.
Inflammation and coagulation are so tightly linked that the cytokine storm which accompanies the development of sepsis initiates this.
What is thrombin activation and DIC?
Side effect of methotrexate that begins with an 'A'.