IBD — Flashcards

Flashcard 131: When can you treat UC with surgery? _____

Answer: Refractory to medical tx or with long-standing disease (>8 yrs = malignant transformation)

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Flashcard 132: Crohn disease is typically characterized by _____ lower quadrant pain/masses

Answer: right

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Flashcard 133: Smoking is a protective factor for which IBD? _____

Answer: Ulcerative colitis

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Flashcard 134: What IBD or C. Difficile complication presents with colonic dilation with loss of haustration on X-ray and fever, tachycardia, leukocytosis, and/or anemia? _____

Answer: Toxic megacolon

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Flashcard 135: Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies (ASCAs) are found in 60–70% of individuals with _____ and in 10–20% of individuals with _____

Answer: Crohn disease

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Flashcard 136: MMRV and influenza (intranasal) is contraindicated in _____ patients

Answer: immunodeficient

Extra:  https://onlinemeded.org/spa/pediatrics/vaccinations/acquire?ref=anki 

Flashcard 137: Which classes of immunoglobulin are decreased in ataxia-telangiectasia? _____

Answer: IgA, IgG, and IgE

Flashcard 138: Which classes of immunoglobulin are decreased in hyper-IgM syndrome? _____

Answer: IgA, IgG, and IgE

Flashcard 139: Chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis can result from congenital genetic defects in _____ or its receptor

Answer: IL-17

Flashcard 140: Which immune cells secretes IFN-?_____

Answer: NK cells and Th1 cells (2)