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Getting to grips with endocrine. Hormones and steroids
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The joy of acid-base balance. The wonders of renal physiology and some ways it can all go horribly wrong!
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Weird syndrome week. Where the names come from and how to make them interesting and much more memorable
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All sorts of drugs and how they work this week. Also, how best to answer the best of five format questions
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The heart, how it works and how it sometimes doesn't.... and what to do about it
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'Tis the season to be expectorating' - lung and breathing stuff with a foray into some interesting cancers
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It's all in the genes. Translocations non-dysjunction and some fancy sydromes
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'Bugs really bug me' - creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes this week. Especially the really really small ones
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McArdle's disease

described in 1951 by Dr Brian McArdle of Guy's Hospital, London

A glycogen storage disorder of myophosphorylase deficiency

Patients get painful reduction in exercise level with cramps and rhabdomyolysis. They may get a second-wind after resting.

If tested after exercise - they fail to show the expected rise in lactic acid