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Pathophysiology and clinical medicine

1. 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)

2. Common signs of Crohn disease do not include:

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Eponymic name for trisomy 8 is:

Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Warkany syndrome
Down syndrome

8. Lipases by their nature belong to

esterases
proteases
protein kinases
glycerol kinases

9. 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

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

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