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Dit Set 34 Questions PDF
Dit Set 34 Questions PDF
1. A 40-year-old man is beginning to have symptoms of a resting tremor, postural instability, and masklike (expressionless) facies. Name the antiviral drug and its mechanism of action that could be used
against this disease. (FA13 p455) (FA14 p496) (SU14 p48) (GG p614)
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4. A 28-year-old man is being treated with combination of bleomycin, etoposide and cisplatin for
metastatic non-seminoma testicular cancer. The patient develops SOB during the course of treatment.
Pulmonary function testing indicates that the patient has a restrictive lung disease. Which of the
chemotherapy agents is responsible for this restrictive lung disease? Which of the chemotherapy
agents in the above regimen work by inducing free radicals to interfere with DNA structure? (FA13
p372) (FA14 p404) (SU14 p290)
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6. A 3-day-old preterm infant delivered at 34-weeks gestational age develops respiratory distress
syndrome (RDS). What types of pneumocytes are affected in RDS? What is the mechanism that leads
to poor O2-CO2 exchange at the gas exchange barrier in preterm infants with RDS? What structures
make up the gas exchange barrier? How would you increase surfactant production in the pre-term
neonate? (FA13 p544, 555) (FA14 p594, 606) (SU14 p98, 103-104)
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8. Which bone is commonly fractured when a person hits something with the knuckles of a clenched fist,
causing deep pain in the anatomical snuffbox? (SU14 p244, 385) (COA p686)
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10. IFN- stimulates macrophages and inhibits T2 helper cells. What cell type releases IFN-? (FA13 p196)
(FA14 p201) (SU14 p261)
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