[AMC 1] General Discussions
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A 6 month-old male is thought to have sickle cell anemia, and as his pediatrician you want to sequence the gene that may be mutated, causing this dise
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A 52-year-old male immigrant from Bolivia presents to the clinic complaining of dyspnea, weakness, and mild edema. Cardiac ultrasound reveals dilatati
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A 40 year old man presents to your clinic for evaluation of progressive loss of sensation in both his arms. Further questioning reveals that the patie
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A 33-year-old man status-post renal transplant presents with one week of cough, fever, chills, and pleuritic chest pain. Chest x-ray is negative for c
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A 51-year-old man comes to the doctor's office with shortness of breath and productive cough. The patient has a history of smoking for the past 32 yea
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A 12-year-old blind boy is learning to read Braille for the first time. Which sensory organ in his finger tips is responsible for translating this lig
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A 62-year-old man presents to his primary care physician complaining of a recent eruption of blisters all over his body. On exam, the patient has mult
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A 55 year-old male arrives at your office because recently he attempted to fly for the first time in his life. At the airport, he set the metal detect
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A 28-year-old woman wishing to have a baby for the first time comes to you for genetic counseling. Her husband has no medical problems but her father
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A 42-year-old woman presents to the ER with five hours of steadily increasing abdominal pain. The pain is associated with nausea and vomiting, and beg
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A 27-year-old HIV positive man comes for a re-visit after a screening urinalysis reveals strikingly elevated protein levels. The patient is currently
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A 55-year-old man with an 80 pack year history of smoking and 3 year history of diabetes complains of bloodshot eyes, drooping of his left eyelid, a c
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An 8-year-old male presents at a clinic in a rural Nepal with conjunctival scarring and ocular pruritus. His physicians are concerned with preventing
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A 43-year-old woman presents with bone pain, joint pain, and fatigue. Further history reveals blood in her urine and difficulty moving her bowels. She
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Some competitive weight-lifters use substances that increase the activity of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) before a workout to increase the blood-supply
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Three days after recovering from the "flu", a 35 year-old woman experiences numbness and tingling of the lower limbs. Over the following day, the numb
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A 58 year old alcoholic man presents with diarrhea for 4 days duration. He further explains that for the past week he has been taking ―heartburn medic
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A 50-year-old man with a long history of alcohol abuse and chronic hepatitis B infection present with a protuberant abdomen and scleral icterus for 3
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