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USMLE I Review of Biochemistry from Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews Biochemistry 4 th Edition

USMLE I Review of Biochemistry from Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews Biochemistry 4 th Edition Pamela Champe, Richard A Harvey and Denise Ferrier Presented by James D. Shoemaker MD PhD. Review Materials: The entire 2008 Metabolism Course is available online at: http://eres.slu.edu

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USMLE I Review of Biochemistry from Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews Biochemistry 4 th Edition

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  1. USMLE I Review of Biochemistry from Lippincott’s Illustrated Reviews Biochemistry 4th Edition Pamela Champe, Richard A Harvey and Denise Ferrier Presented by James D. Shoemaker MD PhD

  2. Review Materials: The entire 2008 Metabolism Course is available online at: http://eres.slu.edu Type in: metabolism as the course Click on METMTAB Type in: metabolism As the password Download the entire 2008 syllabus as a searchable pdf Download this summary of the Lippincott Review

  3. General Guidelines: The boards emphasizes clinical vignettes that require you to recall small details you might remember from Medical School The questions assume you know the names of disorders, but rarely ask them So, for high-yield review, take a category of disorders and ask yourself what are the distinguishing clinical features of each disease in that category

  4. The vignettes are carefully written to provide only relevant details. There are no distracters or tricks in the vignettes. You do not have to understand all of the vignette to answer the question—usually only one fact is necessary. Answers will be in alphabetical order and “symmetrical” so that no feature predominates There may be pictures, structures, audio or video content, but this is rare

  5. Blocks both pathways of gluconeogenesis

  6. Also lysosomal Older age of presentation

  7. “Certain drugs” especially anti-malarials such as “quins” but also sulfas, Tylenol

  8. Gallstones: more direct bilirubin; Alcoholic liver disease: more indirect bilirubin

  9. What possible Boards question could be based on this?

  10. In 2008, anaphylaxis caused 80 deaths in the USA which were linked to a single contaminated product. This substance was manufactured in China which produces 50% of the world’s supply. Isolation of the starting material is a cottage industry wherein farmworkers scrape a crude extract from pig intestine. Unscrupulous manufacturers substituted a partially synthetic material later identified as persulfated chondroitin sulfate which was able to pass standard purity tests. The tainted end product was sold in the US and Europe as which of the following? • Chondroitin Sulfate • Glucosamine Hydrochloride • Hyaluronic Acid • Unfractionated Heparin • Xanthan Gum

  11. MCAD deficiency, Reyes Syndrome, Carnitine deficiency Ackee fruit poisoning (Jamaican vomiting sickness) MCT feeding: All cause Dicarboxylic aciduria: Adipic, Suberic, Sebacic

  12. + indomethacin + colchicine

  13. Macrocytosis Rx for biotinidase def

  14. Now go study something else!

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