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The patient's symptoms do not include any major mood disorders, such as manic or depressive episodes. For the diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder to be made, the DSM 5 criteria require that the patient have a prominent mood disorder that occur during the majority of the total active and residual course of the disease. This is in contrast to older DSM reports on episodic occurrences of mood disorders in patients with symptoms of schizophrenia. +
Influenza virus can cause an atypical pneumonia but is a less common cause than ''Mycoplasma pneumoniae''. Patients with influenza virus infection often complain of headache, high-grade fever, chills, dry cough, pharyngeal irritation, and myalgias. It is usually self-limited and persists for approximately 2-8 days. +
Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone which inhibits DNA gyrase and is used to treat gram-negative rods and ''Pseudomonas aeruginosa''. +
Ceftriaxone is a 3rd generation cephalosporin, a β-lactam antibiotic that inhibits cell wall synthesis. It has no anti-pseudomonal activity. +
Incorrect! There has been reports that eosinophils can be detected on tissue biopsies of Hashimoto's. However, this is still under investigation. The predominant cells are always lymphocytes in hashimoto's. +
Sublimation is moving an unacceptable impulse into an acceptable channel. Example, a notorious street thug joins the local gym to train in order to become a professional boxer. In contrast to the other answer options, sublimation is a mature defense mechanism. +
The majority of male patients with CF are diagnosed with congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens. It is a frequent finding in these patients and in most if not all children born with cystic fibrosis as well. In some males, this may be the only feature suggesting an underlying CFTR mutation. +
The vinca alkaloids, in common with other drugs such as colchicine, podophyllotoxin, the taxanes, and the epothilones, block cells in mitosis. Their mechanism of action is to bind specifically to beta-tubulin and to block its polymerization with alpha-tubulin into microtubules. +
A VIPoma is an endocrine tumor usually originating from non-beta islet pancreatic cells. They produce vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). VIP secretion causes: Watery Diarrhea, Hypokalemia, and Achlorhydria (known as WDHA syndrome). Additionally, VIP secretion causes vasodilation, hypercalcemia, and hyperglycemia. Although rare, it may be associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1. +
For mild-to-moderate disease, alternative therapeutic regimens include: dapsone plus TMP, primaquine plus clindamycin, and atovaquone. Common triggers of hemolytic anemia include sulfonamides and other drugs such as chloroquine, isoniazid, nalidixic acid, nitrofurantoin, and primaquine. +
The upper and lower limbs begin to bud from the mesoderm layer during week-4 after fertilization. Week-4 is also marked by initiation of the embryonic heart beating. +
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Amiodarone-induced hypothyroidism (AIH) is cause of this thyroid function abnormality. +
Phocomelia (also known as flipper-limbs or seal-limbs) is a teratogenic effect of thalidomide, a medication initially prescribed to pregnant women to treat pregnancy-associated nausea and vomiting. It is associated with phocomelia (abnormal limbs) and amelia (loss of limbs) in the fetuses. +
Incorrect- The sputum of asthmatics may contain eosinophils, Charcot-Leyden crystals, Curschmann spirals, or Creola bodies. However, eosinophils may also be present in the sputum of patients with other conditions such as Churg-Strauss syndrome or eosinophilic pneumonia. +
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOi) are prescribed for patients with atypical depression. MAOi act by inhibiting the ubiquitous enzyme monoamine oxidase, which usually deaminates serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine, and tyramine. +
Kartagener syndrome is caused by ciliary dynein arm defects. It is classically described as a triad of situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and chronic sinusitis. It is associated with infertility. +