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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. Manning criteria are used:

in diagnostics of irritable bowel syndrome
In diagnostics of ulcerative colitis
To differentiate gastric ulcer from duodenal ulcer
To differentiate gastric ulcer from gastric cancer

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. Pre-esophageal dysphagia is accompanied by:

Heartburn
Epistaxis (bleeding from the nose)
Bleeding from the esophageal varices
Cough and recurrent pneumonias

4. Eponymic name for trisomy 13 is:

Down syndrome
Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome

5. Hepcidin, hemojuvelin and feroportin play a role in

in development of chronic diseases anemia
in pathogenesis of hemorrhagic complications in children suffering from hemophilia
in prevention of hemorrhagic complications in hemophilia
in the treatment of hemostatic disorders in children, with the effect of hepcidin as most prominent

6. Elevation of creatin kinase (CK) typically does not accompany

Severe chest pain
Anuria
Chronic alcohol abuse
Epileptic seizures of grand-mal type

7. Phospholipases do not belong to

Hydrolases
Lipases
Phosphodiesterases
Phosphorylases

8. 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)

9. Rovsing's sign is positive when

There is a tachycardia accompanying the pain in the right hypochondrium
There is a tachycardia accompanying the edema (swelling) in only one of the both legs
Palpation (or the pressure of physician’s palm) of the left lower quadrant of a patient's abdomen increases the pain in the right lower quadrant
The patient is unable to keep balance while walking with closed eyes

10. Mechanism of action of diuretic furosemid consists in inhibiton of:

Sodium/Glucose membrane co-transport in proximal tubule
Sodium/potassium/chloride membrane co-transport
Urea reabsorption
Tubular secretion of urea