Showing posts with label Immunology. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Female With Fever, Weight Loss, Lack Of Appetite, And Periodic Difficulty Breathing

7:46 AM | Posted by Unknown | Edit Post
A 22-year-old female comes to the sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic for her first visit. She tells the nurse practitioner that she has had four different sexual partners in the last six months and only one of them used a condom. She also admits that she used IV drugs on several occasions two years ago. She notes fever, weight loss, lack of appetite, and periodic difficulty breathing over the past few months. She has an HIV test performed, which is positive. The physician decides to do a confirmatory test for HIV. Which one of the following tests would the physician order? 


           A. ELISA (Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) 
           B. FACS ( Fluorescence activated cell sorting) 
           C. RAST (Radioallergosorbent Test) 
           D. RID (Radial immunodiffusion) 
           E. Western blot 





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Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis Develops Dental Caries

7:39 AM | Posted by Unknown | Edit Post
A patient with rheumatoid arthritis presents to her physician and mentions that after many years without teeth problems, she has recently developed seven caries. This is a clue to her clinician that she should be evaluated for which of the following diseases? 


           A. Oral squamous cell carcinoma 
           B. Polyarteritis nodosa 
           C. Sjögren's syndrome 
           D. Systemic lupus erythematosus 
           E. Thyrotoxicosis 





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