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What is current recommendation of giving a meningococcal vaccine - ?All children age 11-12 ynBooster at 16nCan be given to children as young as 2 years if high risk What type of rates should be associated with Incidence? - Attack rate---you shrink the denominator as per the exposure. Create ...

anti-Smith - SLE, specific ANti-Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase - T1DM Antithyroglobulin - Hashimoto Thyroiditis Anti-dsDNA - SLE, specific Anti-Basement Membrane - Goodpasture Syndrome Anti-ACh receptor - Myasthenia Gravis Anticardiolipin - SLE (antiphospholipid syndrome) Anticentromere - CREST ...

What is the biochemical problem in Lesch-Nyhan syndrome? (And, only if you got that right, what are the really cool symptoms of it?) - Defective purine catabolism, so buildup of purines. It's an Xlinked recessive disorder with mutated HGPRT gene (hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase, if ...

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) - Deficiency - Impaired glucose breakdown p ATP depletion worsened by glucose infusion; highly aerobic tissues (eg, brain, heart) are affected first. In alcoholic or malnourished patients, give thiamine before dextrose to reduce risk of precipitating Wernicke encephalopathy. ...

Riboflavin deficiency - Riboflavin=B2 -angular stomatitis (changes at the angles of the mouth) -cheilosis (cracked lips) -glossitis -ocular problems (corneal neovascularization) -skin changes Babesiosis - -causes hemolytic anemia -severe in asplenic individuals -carried by Ixodes (deer) tick...

Propofol - Used for sedation in the ICU, rapid anesthesia induction, short procedures LESS POST-OPERATIVE NAUSEA than thiopental Potentiates GABAA Holoprosencephaly - Failure of LEFT AND RIGHT HEMISPHERES TO SEPARATE Usually occurs during the 5th and 6th week May be related to mutations in the ...

Adoption study - compares siblings raised by biological vs adoptive parents measures heritability and influence of environment Observer-expectancy effect - Occurs when a researcher's belief in the efficacy of a treatment changes the outcome of that treatment Chi square - tests the difference be...

Infratentorial brain tumor (children) - medulloblastoma (cerebellum) acute autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy - Guillain-Barre syndrome Absence seizures treatment - Ethosuximide 'lumpy bumpy" appearance of glomeruli on immunofluorescence - poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis...

Che Gout, MR, self-mutilating behavior in a boy - Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, Xlinked recessive) st pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI - Dressler's (autoimmune post-MI) Achilles tendon xanthoma - Familial hypercholesterolemia Adrenal hemorrhage, h...