What is compliance and does does it decrease with restrictive or obstructive disorders?
The ability of the lung to expand and stretch... it is decreased with restrictive disorders
What is a neuroma
A slow growing benign tumor of the schwann cell
What is a rare inflammatory disorder of the aorta
Takayasu arteritis
What virus lives indefinitely in B lymphocytes
Herpes virus Type IV Mononucleosis (Epstein Barr Virus)
Psoriatic arthritis primarily involves the ___ of the hand
DIP
What is Cor Pulmonale
Changes in the structure and the function of the right ventricle as a result of prolonged pulmonary hypertension. Basically right sided heart failure due to pulmonary hypertension.
Where does an ependymoma originate?
In the 4th ventricle
____ is often the desult of damage to valves in deep leg veins, dusky discoloration, shiny skin, edema, poor healing
Chronic Venous insufficiency (CVI)
A patient presents with unilateral swelling in large joints, fatigue, vomitting, and a bullseye rash. What disease and what stage of the disease are they in?
Lymes and stage 2
What is a colles fracture
A fracture of the distal radius and ulnar styloid
Pneumocyte 2
____ involves the breakdown of the blood brain barrier and allows the virus or bacteria to enter the brain
Meningitis
If hemoglobin is below 4-5.9 what may occur?
Patient may become dizzy
What infection can lead to septic arthritis?
Staphyloccocal infections
anterior instability is often associated with what should pathology?
SLAP lesion or labral tears
What condition is characterized by abnormal and permanent enlargement of the air spaces distal to the terminal bronchiole and causes hyperinflation of chest wall changes.
Emphysema
What type of seizure is characterized by generalized rigidity phase followed by very rapid generalized jerking movement stage
Tonic-Clonic
Blood buffer - Immediate
Lungs - Hours
Kidneys - Days
MRSA is resistant to every antibiotic except ___
VAncomycin
_____ have a small number of joints involved and are negative for Rheumatoid factor but positive for HLA B27
Spondyloarthopathies
What disorder would present with diffuse bilateral pulmonary infiltrates on an Xray and is characterized by severe hypoxia.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
What type of headaches is nausea NOT associated with
Tension
Streptococcus pyogenes has what type of precaution?
Both contact and respiratory droplets
What infectious disease can cause post herpetic neuralgia?
Herpes Virus Varicella Zoster - Type 2 (Shingles - Latent)
What are the phases of bone healing?
Hemotoma, Inflammation, Proliferation and callous formation, and consolidation and remodelling