Referoff: Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (RTH), is a rare genetic disorder where the body's tissues respond poorly to thyroid hormones. This causes the thyroid to overproduce hormones, resulting in a unique lab pattern: elevated thyroid hormones (Free T3 and Free T4) with an unsuppressed or slightly high TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone).

Is this answer correct? They answer it colloid depletion

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Chest radiology reveals bronchiectasis

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OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA does not produce scurvy, which is caused by a vitamin C deficiency

Karyotyping the mother is NOT the correct tool for estimating the risk of Down syndrome in her fetus.

The mother is phenotypically normal, so she cannot have full trisomy 21 herself.

The only scenario where the mother's karyotype matters is if she carries a balanced Robertsonian translocation involving chromosome 21 — but this is rare, and the question gives no suggestion of such.

The given answer confuses:

• maternal meiotic nondisjunction risk (age-related, statistical)
• vs.
• heritable translocation Down syndrome (very rare)

streptococo neumoniae is´nt a diplococo

reduced cortisol, sodio, aldosterona but incresed K+

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My name is Fortune

I'm an IMG from Nigeria and 2 years away from graduation

I'm looking to specialise in paediatrics neonatology

mech by which EP induces HTN

• inhibits Ach induced vasodialation vaso dialation
• platelet aggregates
• increased levels of Endothelin -1

renal cell carcinoma - increased EP

She is having problems in The pasta month. And not over 6 months period

Just need to go through with this disease

she did not have to acquire new skills after her injury and lack of adaptation would cause weakness in left leg

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In the question says "Blood cultures grew gram-positive cocci in clusters" which made me think of Staph but the medical history madde me think of Strep. Now, I don´t know if it was a coinfection or what happened there

Behçet Syndrome is a Type 3 Hypersensitivity reaction. The answer provided is incorrect.

Struvite stones, form only when the upper urinary tract is infected with urease-producing bacteria such as Proteus mirabilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus,

saprophyticus.

While ETEC is known to be the primary cause of Traveler's diarrhea based on its watery characteristic, its heat-labile/stable enterotoxins do not cause inflammation or invasion. On the other hand, EIEC's microbes invade the intestinal mucosa, causing necrosis and inflammation similar to that of Shigella, which leads to watery diarrhea progressing to blood and mucus in the stool. Therefore, I think this question needs to be reviewed to reform the stem to point towards ETEC or change the answer choices.

they mentioned normal limits of RBC and glucose. testosterone induces erythropoiesis and decrease in it would decrease the RBCs too