Liver disease — Flashcards

Flashcard 61: The HTLV-1 virus (cause of ATLL) is associated with _____ users

Answer: IV drug

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Flashcard 62: Risk factors for _____ carcinoma include chronic hepatitis (e.g. HBV, HCV)

Answer: hepatocellular

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Flashcard 63: Hepatitis B virus can present similar to serum sickness, with fever, _____ and arthralgias

Answer: rash

Flashcard 64: What CNS complication is associated with pellagra (B3 deficiency)? _____

Answer: Dementia (also hallucinations)

Flashcard 65: Carcinoid syndrome may occur if the carcinoid tumor metastasizes to the _____

Answer: liver

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Flashcard 66: Patients can become at increased risk for infections with vibrio vulnificus in the setting of _____ and chronic liver disease

Answer: achlorhydria

Flashcard 67: Part of the treatment for hyperammonemia is limiting _____ in the diet

Answer: protein

Flashcard 68: Why may PTT be elevated in von Willebrand disease? _____

Answer: Decreased factor VIII half-life (vWF normally stabilizes factor VIII)

Flashcard 69: Membranous nephropathy has a(n) _____ response to corticosteroids

Answer: poor

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Flashcard 70: Esophageal varices may rupture, which presents with painless _____

Answer: hematemesis

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