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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Eponymic name for trisomy 21 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Warkany syndrome

2. Phospholipases do not belong to

Hydrolases
Lipases
Phosphodiesterases
Phosphorylases

3. Microcytic anemia is usually not

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

4. Typical causes of microcytic anemia do not include

Iron loss due to menstrual bleeding (insufficiently substituted)
Vitamin B6 deficiency
Thalassemia
Vitamin B12 deficiency

5. 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

6. Eponymic name for trisomy 13 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome

7. Dysphagia is:

A subjective symptom
An objective sign
An objective sign, that, however, a patient has to tell the physician he is suffering from
A subjective symptom, that, howver, does not include the pain (in case of pain odynophagia is the correct)

8. Typical causes of pre-esophageal dysphagia do not include:

Myasthenia gravis
Dermatomyositis
Sclerodermia
Multiple sclerosis

9. If 20% of cardiac output 5 l/min flows through kidneys, and 20 % of the plasma volume flowing through kidneys is filtered to glomerules, then calculate glomerular filtration rate (take hematokrit value 40 %). Calculated GFR value is:

2 ml/min
20 ml/min
100 ml/min
120 ml/min

10. Pachymetry is used in diagnostics of ...

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