Test 128
A 24-year-old female presents with severe pain during menses (dysmenorrhea). To treat her symptoms, you advise her to take indomethacin in the hopes that it will reduce her pain by interfering with the production of
Bradykinin
Histamine
Leukotrienes
Phospholipase A2
Prostaglandin F2
Test 129
An 8-month-old male infant is admitted to the hospital because of a bacterial respiratory infection. The infant responds to appropriate antibiotic therapy, but is readmitted several weeks later because of severe otitis media. Over the next several months, the infant is admitted to the hospital multiple times for recurrent bacterial infections. Workup reveals extremely low serum antibody levels. The infant has no previous history of viral or fungal infections. The most likely diagnosis for this infant is
Isolated IgA deficiency
Chronic granulomatous disease
DiGeorge’ s syndrome
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
X-linked agammaglobulinemia of Bruton
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