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Molly is a 75yr old widow who lives alone. For 2 days she had a fever and chills and mainly stayed in bed. On rising to go to the bathroom, she felt dizzy, fainted, and fell to the floor. Molly quickly regained consciousness and managed to call her son, who took her to the emergency room, where a physical diagnosed orthostatic hypotension.
Orthostasis literally means " to stand"
and hypotension refers to low blood pressure; thus, orthostatic hypotension is a significant drop in blood pressure upon standing. when a person moves from lying down to standing, blood "pools" within the veins below the heart because of gravity, and less blood returns to the heart. Consequently, blood pressure drops because the heart has less blood to pump.
Predict -Although orthostatic hypotension has many causes, in the elderly it can be due to age related decrease in neural and cardiovascular responses. Decreased fluid intake while feeling I'll and sweating due to a fever can result in dehydration. Good
Dehydration can decrease blood volume and lower pressure, increasing the likelihood of orthostatic hypotension.

1 Describe the normal response to a decrease in blood pressure on standing?

2 what happened to Molly heart rate just before she fainted? why did Molly faint?

3 How did Molly's fainting and falling to the floor help establish homeostasis ( assuming she was not injured)?

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c. increased concentration of albumin in the blood

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Question 4. In cardiac pacemaker cells, the L-type calcium channels:

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b. close when the membrane potential rises above threshold

c. are located in the cell membrane

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Question 7. A Physiology student is sitting still in a cold igloo. After 30 minutes, she stands up, walks slowly around the igloo, and suddenly starts to shiver.

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Question 8. In the question 7 above, the student started to shiver soon after walking because:

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"What? What are you looking at?" Roger blurts out while buttoning up his shirt.

"Oh, it's probably nothing." But she doesn't look like it's probably nothing.

"The heart murmur? My mom's been telling me about it since childhood. Not a big deal. The doctors called it something last year, something I never heard of." "Did you check it out?" asks the intern.

"Nah. It wasn't bothering me, so I forgot about it. Why? What's wrong?"

"Well, maybe you should ask the doctor to explain it again and suggest what to do."

"About what?"

"The doctor will explain it. Please don't worry, though," says the intern as she rushes off to the next patient.

Roger's electrocardiograms had in fact been showing that he has had long QT syndrome, and not a heart murmur, for many years. The doctor explains that this is a problem with the heart's rhythm, and not its valves. Roger goes home and Googles long QT syndrome right away. What he finds concerns him enough to alert his relatives.

Long QT syndrome is a lengthening in the time that it takes the ventricles (the lower two heart chambers) to recover after a contraction, called the QT interval on an electrocardiogram. This delay is called torsade de pointes, and it causes lightheadedness upon standing or even fainting, as blood pressure drops when the heart rhythm becomes abnormal. If the arrhythmia turns into the more erratic condition called ventricular fibrillation, it can be deadly. Some cases â¢of sudden cardiac arrest in people who apparently do not have heart disease are in fact due to long QT syndrome. This 'may have been the case with Roger's aunt, Amelia, his mother's sister, who died at age 34 of what was thought to be a heart attack, but, now Roger realizes, was more likely an arrhythmia. Still, with only one affected relative, Roger had never thought of his aunt's â¢early demise as a family history, especially since his mother is healthy.

Roger reads that in people with some forms of long QT syndrome, fatal arrhythmia can be triggered by intense emotions or a sudden loud sound. The first recorded case of the condition was a little girl, who collapsed dead â¢when her teacher suddenly yelled at her. Her older brother had died in a similar circumstance. Suddenly, Roger remembers that his daughter Sheila faints very easily. She even passed out once at a rock concert because she got so excited. He'd never panicked over it because his mother fainted easily, too. A pattern was emerging.

Long QT syndrome is caused by mutations in any of at least 10 genes that encode either proteins that form parts of ion channels (potassium, sodium, or calcium) or proteins that affect the functioning of these channels. Ion channels control the spread of nerve impulses and the resulting muscle contraction. The time for the heart's reeovery after a beat, called repolarization, extends the period when ions are trapped inside heart muscle cells because the channels are blocked, too slow to open, or too quick to close in people who are at elevated risk due to inheriting a mutation. People with long QT syndrome can experience arrhythmia if they take certain drugs that prolong the QT interval. These drugs include certain antibiotics, antidepressants, and diuretics ("water pills").

Roger reads about the different genes and drug combinations that cause long QT syndrome on Wikipedia, and then he scans www.genetests.org to find labs that test for all of them. Only then does he make an appointment with a cardiologist, and he arranges to have his blood and that of his daughter and mother sent to one of the labs. Two weeks later, he learns that they all have a dominant mutation in a gene called HERG (for "human ether-a-go-go") that causes long QT syndrome type 2 (LQT2). Even healthy family members could have inherited the mutation, because 15 percent of people with long QT syndrome do not have symptoms. The concern is their increased risk of developing symptoms in the futureâperhaps suddenly.

Question 1 : Roger is upset that in the past doctors had not been more insistent that he follow up on the abnormal ECG pattern. When he mentions this to his primary care physician, she answers, "I didn't say anything because you are so healthy, and people who have cardiac arrest from long QT do so in young adulthood. You're too old to worry about it." But Roger should be worried, because

a. he looks younger than he is, so could still be at risk

b. the condition can be inherited, so others in the family could be affected.

c. he could die at any time.

d. he can no longer take antibiotics.

e. long QT syndrome can cause cholesterol to build up in his coronary arteries.

2. Individuals who should take genetic tests for long QT syndrome are

a. all the people in generation IV.

b. Eric, Joan and Peter, and then Dylan, Anika, Sean, Keri, and Anna if a parent has the mutation.

c. Juanita, Larry, Joan, Peter, and Ellie.

d. Abe, Sara, Craig, Philip, Edwin, and Yvonne.

e. Only those who are athletic.

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a. X-Iinked recessive

.b. autosomal recessive.

c. autosomal dominant.

d. sex-limited.

e. X-Iinked dominant.

4. Some people who inherit the same mutation as Roger do not experience any symptoms. This means that the mutation is

a. variably expressive.

b. genetically heterogeneic.

c. polygenic.

d. incompletely penetrant.

e. dominant.

5). The fact that mutations in any of several genes can cause long QT syndrome means that the condition is

a. variably expressive.

b. genetically heterogeneic.

c. polygenic.

d. incompletely penetrant.

e.recessive.

6). The risk that Sean, Keri, or Anna has inherited the family's mutation for long QT syndrome is

a. 1

b. Â¾

c. Â¼

d. Â¼

e. 1/8

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d. pleiotropy.

e. phenocopy.

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d. the mutations all affect the genes in the same way.

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