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

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

2. 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

3. 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

4. Microcytic anemia is usually not

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

5. Eponymic name for trisomy 8 is:

Edwards syndrome
Patau syndrome
Warkany syndrome
Down syndrome

6. Lipases by their nature belong to

esterases
proteases
protein kinases
glycerol kinases

7. Sideroblasts

are a sign of disorder of iron incorporation into heme
are pathognomic for sideropenic anemia
are phagocyting cells in spleen (and liver), that take part in recycling of iron back to bone marrow by removing old and altered erythrocytes from the blood flow
jsou nezralé buňky červené řady typické pro hemochromatózu

8. Pre-esophageal dysphagia is accompanied by:

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

9. 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

10. Phospholipases do not belong to

Hydrolases
Lipases
Phosphodiesterases
Phosphorylases