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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Biochemical marker of choice to detect myocardial necrosis is:

troponin
creatinkinase
myoglobin (unless hemolysis is present)
AST (formerly termed GOT) is still the most reliable marker in everyday practice; troponin or myoglobin are used only in research trials

2. 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

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

Abdominal pain
Amenorrhea
Tachycardia
Vaginal bleeding

4. 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

5. Microcytic anemia is usually not

hypochromic at the same time
hyperchromic at the same time
caused by thalassemia
caused by repeated blood loss

6. Pachymetry is used in diagnostics of ...

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

7. Classical Virchow-Rokitanski triad does not include

alteration of blood flow (stasis or turbulence)
abnormality of blood coagulation (hypercoagulability)
medical history of thrombosis or embolism
injury of vessel wall (endothelial injury or dysfunction)

8. Eponymic name for trisomy 18 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Turner syndrome

9. Phospholipases do not belong to

Hydrolases
Lipases
Phosphodiesterases
Phosphorylases

10. Three most important anticoagulation systems do not include

heparin-antithrombin
protein C-trombomodulin-protein S
Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor – TFPI
plasminogen-plasmin