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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Eponymic name for trisomy 8 is:

Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Warkany syndrome
Down syndrome

2. Trombophilia means:

high platelet count in blood
abnormality of blood coagulation that increases the risk of thrombosis
inborn hemorrhagic diathesis, that - contrary to hemophilia – is not caused by missing any coagulation factor, but by platelet dysfunction
inborn hemorrhagic diathesis, that - contrary to thrombophobia – is not caused by platelet dysfunction, but by their extremely low count

3. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) belongs to:

Functional bowel disorders
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Precanceroses
Consequences of amoebic colitis

4. The "classic" clinical triad of ectopic pregnancy does not include:

Abdominal pain
Amenorrhea
Tachycardia
Vaginal bleeding

5. Common signs of Crohn disease do not include:

Diarrhea
Pain
Constipation
p-ANCA positivity with ASCA (antibodies against S. cerevisiae) negativity

6. The most probable source of arterial embolism is:

Thrombus in left atrium
Thrombus popliteal vein
Thrombus in right ventricle
Thrombus in popliteal artery aneurysm

7. Commonly, sideroachrestic anemia is not

accompanied by sideroblasts
a sign of myelodysplastic syndrome
caused by repeated loss of blood (e.g. in young women)
caused by vitamin B6 deficiency

8. The term "thromboembolic disease" comprises:

pulmonary embolism and brain embolism (both of thrombotic origin)
phlebothrombosis and pulmonary embolism
thrombophlebitis and pulmonary embolism
pulmonary embolism from phlebothrombosis (class A) and pulmonary embolism from thrombophlebitis (class B)

9. Lipases by their nature belong to

esterases
proteases
protein kinases
glycerol kinases

10. Fibrinolysis can be potentiated

by activation of fibrinogen conversion to fibrin
blocking the fibrinogen conversion to fibrin
by activation of plasminogen conversion to plasmin
blocking the plasminogen conversion to plasmin