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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Image of object focusing in front of retina is typical of:

Myopia (short sightedness, near-sightedness)
Hyperopia (hypermetropia - long-sightedness, far-sightedness)
Presbyopia
Hyperopia, but only when a patient sees the object through the concave lens

2. Paradoxical embolism is caused typically

by periodic reversal of blood flow in leg veins
by periodic reversal of blood flow in leg arteries
by mural thrombus lining the wall of an arterial aneurysm (paradoxical embolism to leg veins)
by patent foramen ovale

3. 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

4. Varenicline is ...

A drug used to treat nicotine addiction
A drug used in prevention of varicous veins and venous ulcer
A medicine of choice in the treatment of varicous veins (however, is not used to treat venous ulcer)
A vaccine against VZV (varicella zoster virus) attenuated by nickel

5. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) belongs to:

Functional bowel disorders
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Precanceroses
Consequences of amoebic colitis

6. Pachymetry is used in diagnostics of ...

Glaucoma
Pleuritis and mesothelioma (resulting in pachypleuritis)
Pachymeningitis
Paget disease

7. With glomerular filtration rate (GFR) 80 ml/min, 100% filtration and 50% tubular reabsorption of substance X calculate its cearance:

160 ml/min
120 ml/min
80 ml/min
40 ml/min

8. Eponymic name for trisomy 13 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome

9. Eponymic name for trisomy 21 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Warkany syndrome

10. Positivity of Blumberg sign means:

Tenderness to palpation over McBurney's point
Pain upon removal of pressure on the abdominal wall
Inability to keep balance while walking with closed eyes
Inability to keep balance while standing with closed eyes