Vitamin D deficiency and rickets US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Vitamin D deficiency and rickets Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: Congenital Rubella is characterized by radio-_____ bone lesions
Answer: lucent
Flashcard 2: _____ is the isolated, temporary halting of skeletal growth in the absence of other causal physical abnormalities
Answer: Constitutional delay of growth and puberty
Flashcard 3: Patients with Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis will be prescribed therapy to reduce _____
Answer: inflammation
Flashcard 4: Rickets may present with pathologic _____ legs (genu varum)
Answer: bow
Flashcard 5: Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase I deficiency presents in _____ (age group) as poorly regulated respiration and body temperature, poor feeding, developmental delay, and intellectual disability
Answer: neonates
Flashcard 6: Homocystinuria may present with _____ disability, osteoporosis, and kyphosis
Answer: intellectual
Flashcard 7: Vitamin _____ excess increases risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in infants
Answer: E
Flashcard 8: sleep enuresis
Answer:
Extra: desmopressin (DDAVP), imipramine; desmopressin preferred because of fewer adverse effects
Flashcard 9: marasmus
Answer: energy malnutrition
Extra: muscle wasting, loss of subcutaneous fat, +/- edema
Flashcard 10: kwashiorkor
Answer: protein malnutrition
Extra: skin lesions, edema, liver malfunction anemia, fatty liver
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