Pathology Learning Guide | Recall Questions for
Exam Prep
1. What blood group is the universal donor - ✔✔O-
2. What causes Parkinsonianism - ✔✔Lack of dopamine
3. MG is a result of - ✔✔Ab's against AcH receptors at NMJ
4. CREST syndrome is associated with - ✔✔Calcinosis, Raynauds phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility,
sclerodactyly, telangiectasia, and diffuse scleroderma
5. What can give you pulmonary embolus - ✔✔DVT
6. What is the most common chromosomal disorder - ✔✔Down Syndrome (trisomy 21) Note: it is also
related to ALL
7. Mesothelioma and bronchogenic CA are associated with - ✔✔Asbestos
8. Hyperglycemia can be caused by all except - ✔✔Insulin
9. Emergency problem with insulin - ✔✔Hypoglycemia
10. Emphysema - ✔✔Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
11. When vitamin B12 is not absorbed it causes - ✔✔Pernicious anemia
, 12. What fluoresces coral red under the Wood's lamp - ✔✔Erythrasma (caused by Corynebacterium)
13. Disease characterized by reversible bronchospasm - ✔✔Asthma
14. What is going on with a patient w/ neuropathy and elevated liver enzymes (AST:ALT inc ratio)? -
✔✔Alcoholism
15. First Tx for NIDDM - ✔✔Weight loss
16. Draining granular foot lesion - ✔✔Mycetoma
17. Down syndrome has an association with - ✔✔Leukemia
18. Disease characterized by aneurysms - ✔✔Marfans
19. Which is not a risk for atherosclerosis - ✔✔Alcoholism
20. What is the cause of Libman sacks endocarditis - ✔✔SLE
21. What disease replaces muscle tissue with fibrous material and fat in a child - ✔✔Duchenne's
muscular dystrophy
22. Circular rings of cartilage in vessels, non-occlusive - ✔✔Munckeberg's medial sclerosis (tunica media)
23. Patient with an irregular heart beat has a stroke, what is the cause - ✔✔Cause is embolic stroke
24. Young male with thrombosis (smoker) - ✔✔Buerger's
25. Irregular cells - ✔✔Dysplasia
Exam Prep
1. What blood group is the universal donor - ✔✔O-
2. What causes Parkinsonianism - ✔✔Lack of dopamine
3. MG is a result of - ✔✔Ab's against AcH receptors at NMJ
4. CREST syndrome is associated with - ✔✔Calcinosis, Raynauds phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility,
sclerodactyly, telangiectasia, and diffuse scleroderma
5. What can give you pulmonary embolus - ✔✔DVT
6. What is the most common chromosomal disorder - ✔✔Down Syndrome (trisomy 21) Note: it is also
related to ALL
7. Mesothelioma and bronchogenic CA are associated with - ✔✔Asbestos
8. Hyperglycemia can be caused by all except - ✔✔Insulin
9. Emergency problem with insulin - ✔✔Hypoglycemia
10. Emphysema - ✔✔Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
11. When vitamin B12 is not absorbed it causes - ✔✔Pernicious anemia
, 12. What fluoresces coral red under the Wood's lamp - ✔✔Erythrasma (caused by Corynebacterium)
13. Disease characterized by reversible bronchospasm - ✔✔Asthma
14. What is going on with a patient w/ neuropathy and elevated liver enzymes (AST:ALT inc ratio)? -
✔✔Alcoholism
15. First Tx for NIDDM - ✔✔Weight loss
16. Draining granular foot lesion - ✔✔Mycetoma
17. Down syndrome has an association with - ✔✔Leukemia
18. Disease characterized by aneurysms - ✔✔Marfans
19. Which is not a risk for atherosclerosis - ✔✔Alcoholism
20. What is the cause of Libman sacks endocarditis - ✔✔SLE
21. What disease replaces muscle tissue with fibrous material and fat in a child - ✔✔Duchenne's
muscular dystrophy
22. Circular rings of cartilage in vessels, non-occlusive - ✔✔Munckeberg's medial sclerosis (tunica media)
23. Patient with an irregular heart beat has a stroke, what is the cause - ✔✔Cause is embolic stroke
24. Young male with thrombosis (smoker) - ✔✔Buerger's
25. Irregular cells - ✔✔Dysplasia
