Neuromuscular Junction Disorders (Msq Drill 187)

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1. What autoimmune disease leads to a loss of functional acetylocholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction due to autoantibodies against the acetycholine receptor?
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2. Can the weakness of MG become generalized?
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3. 60% of patients with Lambert-Eaton syndrome have:
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4. Can Lambert-Eaton syndrome occur in the absence of a malignancy?
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5. How does clostridium botulinum cause paralysis of respiraroty and sekeletal muscles?
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6. Is clostridium botulinum the same agent that is used to treat wrinkles, migraines and torticollis in the form of botox?
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7. Do patients with MG have constant weakness or does the weakness fluctuate?
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8. Mortality in MG is usually due to:
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9. Symptoms of MG respond to the administration of what drugs?
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10. What is the causative agent of botulism?
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11. 65% of patients with myasthenia gravis have:

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15% have thymoma

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12. Patients with myasthenia gravis will initially have weakness of which muscles?
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13. Will you find clostridium botulinum growing in adequately sterilized canned foods?
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14. A 65 year old woman is found to have muscle weakness and antiacetylcholine receptor antibodies. What is the most likely diagnosis?
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15. Lambert-Eaton syndrome is typically a ____________ process.
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16. Clostridium botulinum is a gram _____ bacillus that grown in ______ conditions and produces spores.
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17. What is the prevalence of myasthenia gravis?
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18. Which of the following are other uses of botox?

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achalasia - esophageal aperilstalsis.

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19. Which of the following are other forms of treatment for MG?
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20. Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) will exhibit weakness of their extraocular muscles leading to the following symptoms:
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21. Patients with Lambert-Eaton syndrome have abnormally low levels of acetylcholine in the neuromuscular junction synaptic vessels. True or false?

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The acetylcholine content in the neuromuscular junction synaptic vessels is normal.

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22. What is the most common type of pituitary adenoma?
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23. Since there is adequate Acetylcholine in the vesicles why is there less acetylcholine in the synapse?
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What autoimmune disease leads to a loss of functional acetylocholine...
Can the weakness of MG become generalized?
60% of patients with Lambert-Eaton syndrome have:
Can Lambert-Eaton syndrome occur in the absence of a malignancy?
How does clostridium botulinum cause paralysis of respiraroty and...
Is clostridium botulinum the same agent that is used to treat...
Do patients with MG have constant weakness or does the weakness...
Mortality in MG is usually due to:
Symptoms of MG respond to the administration of what drugs?
What is the causative agent of botulism?
65% of patients with myasthenia gravis have:
Patients with myasthenia gravis will initially have weakness of which...
Will you find clostridium botulinum growing in adequately sterilized...
A 65 year old woman is found to have muscle weakness and...
Lambert-Eaton syndrome is typically a ____________ process.
Clostridium botulinum is a gram _____ bacillus that grown in ______...
What is the prevalence of myasthenia gravis?
Which of the following are other uses of botox?
Which of the following are other forms of treatment for MG?
Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) will exhibit weakness of their...
Patients with Lambert-Eaton syndrome have abnormally low levels of...
What is the most common type of pituitary adenoma?
Since there is adequate Acetylcholine in the vesicles why is there...
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