Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 130

Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 130 Question 1 Lady Windermere Syndrome (named after Oscar Wilde’s play) refers to infection of the right middle lobe of the lung (or lingula) with Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) in elderly women. What predisposing activity does this eponym allude to? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1247768050'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1247768050')) Voluntary cough suppression. The hypothesis is that these women had chronic inflammation of the right middle lobe/lingula due to inadequate clearance of secretions from habitual cough suppression. This sets up an environment predisposed to MAC infection. [Reference] Question 2 With respect to childhood exanthems, most of us will be familiar with “fifth disease“. But what are the diseases “first” though to “sixth “? + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getElementById('ddet1894705188'));expand(document.getElementById('ddetlink1894705188')) First – Measles Second – Scarlet fever Third – Rubella Fourth – Filatow-Dukes’ Disease (of dubious existence as a unique entity, may represent Staphylococcal disease) Fifith – Erythema infectiosum (parvovirus B19) Sixth – Roseola infantum (human herpes viru...
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