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submitted by taway(22),

Just as a note for anybody else who was WTF at how 2(29/30)(30/30) = 1/15...a lot of question banks round 29/30 (or any similarly large fraction) out to 1

gh889 I think you meant 2(29/30)(1/30) just to clarify! +5

niboonsh i am confusion +1

arkmoses You have to use the hardy weinberg formula (1=p^2+2qp+q^2)and p + q = 1 they basically tell you that q^2=1/900 which makes q=1/30 now you can figure out (p=1-q) so p=1-(1/30), p=29/30 then to figure out carrier you solve for 2qp, 2(29/30)(1/30)=1/15 I got it wrong cuz I forgot how to figure out p but hopefully wont happen on the real deal. +4

garibay92 2pq= 2(29/30)(1/30).... Transform this to 2 1 1 2 1 x x = _ = ____ 1 1 30 30 15 +

garibay92 Nevermind :/ It didn't come out as planned :( +

garibay92 /Users/carlosgutierrez/Desktop/IMG_2423.jpg +

pg32 How do we know this disease is autosomal recessive? I assumed it was just because they love these carrier frequency questions with AR diseases, but how do we know it's AR? +

turtlepenlight Sounds like Gaucher (ish?) if i'm remembering correctly +2

submitted by taway(22),

Just as a note for anybody else who was WTF at how 2(29/30)(30/30) = 1/15...a lot of question banks round 29/30 (or any similarly large fraction) out to 1

gh889 I think you meant 2(29/30)(1/30) just to clarify! +5

niboonsh i am confusion +1

garibay92 2pq= 2(29/30)(1/30).... Transform this to 2 1 1 2 1 x x = _ = ____ 1 1 30 30 15 +

garibay92 Nevermind :/ It didn't come out as planned :( +

garibay92 /Users/carlosgutierrez/Desktop/IMG_2423.jpg +

pg32 How do we know this disease is autosomal recessive? I assumed it was just because they love these carrier frequency questions with AR diseases, but how do we know it's AR? +

turtlepenlight Sounds like Gaucher (ish?) if i'm remembering correctly +2

submitted by taway(22),

Just as a note for anybody else who was WTF at how 2(29/30)(30/30) = 1/15...a lot of question banks round 29/30 (or any similarly large fraction) out to 1

gh889 I think you meant 2(29/30)(1/30) just to clarify! +5

niboonsh i am confusion +1

garibay92 2pq= 2(29/30)(1/30).... Transform this to 2 1 1 2 1 x x = _ = ____ 1 1 30 30 15 +

garibay92 Nevermind :/ It didn't come out as planned :( +

garibay92 /Users/carlosgutierrez/Desktop/IMG_2423.jpg +

pg32 How do we know this disease is autosomal recessive? I assumed it was just because they love these carrier frequency questions with AR diseases, but how do we know it's AR? +

turtlepenlight Sounds like Gaucher (ish?) if i'm remembering correctly +2

submitted by moo(-1),

if the lungs were clear to auscultation and the kid even said he doesn't want to be on the team anymore why couldn't it be malingering?

amarousis malingering would be a conscious faking of symptoms to avoid being on the team. he wouldn't have the mid-systolic click and he would probably complain of his symptoms all the time and not just limited to during exertion. +

temmy malingering is also doing it for some external gain. which was not indicated in the stem +1

garibay92 Also, patients with asthma are usually asymptomatic at the time of physical exam unless they are examined precisely during the attack. +

submitted by neonem(451),

Major risk factor for aortic dissection is hypertension, and in this case might be due to cocaine use, which causes marked hypertension. Dissections cause a tear in the tunica intima -- blood can flow backwards into the pericardium and cause tamponade. This manifests as crackles in the lung due to poor left ventricular function (filling/diastolic problem due to compression).

forerofore there is another clue, the man has diminished pulses in just one arm, which means that the left subclavian artery must be involved somehow, and an aortic dissection would be the best answer explaining this. +8

temmy please why is there where a diastolic mumur? +1

whoissaad @temmy Aortic dissection especially near the root of aorta can lead to dilatation of the aortic valves, which can lead to Aortic regurgitation (diastoic murmur at left sternal border) +8

garibay92 Does anyone know why is this patient's tepmerature elevated? +1

ratadecalle @garibay92, not important for this question I think but cocaine can cause malignant hyperthermia +1

almondbreeze judging by his heart murmur, he probably has marfan syndrome. that's the only place where FA talks about dissecting aneurysm +

almondbreeze he's only 28 - another clue for marfan? +

turtlepenlight did anyone else think it was weird his only sx was SOB? I always think of radiating pain as being a good clue for dissection +1

cmun777 @almondbreeze his heart murmur is at the LSB (aortic regurg) and not consistent with MVP plus no other sx/indication of Marfan. I think the only association of RF you should think about in this question is the cocaine use and consequent HTN. +1

ibestalkinyo @turtlepenlight I agree. I chose another answer because I was like, there's no way this guy doesn't hurt if he's got a dissection. +