10-09-2006, 03:23 PM
31.A 1-month-old baby boy has bloody diarrhea. No infectious agent is identified, but the baby is found to be profoundly thrombocytopenic. The baby is also noted to have a skin rash, and a dermatologist diagnoses eczema. By three months of age, the baby begins to develop recurrent respiratory infections. If this child survives until adolescence, he is at particularly high risk of developing which of the following?
a)Congestive heart failure
b)Crohn disease
c)Lymphoma
d)Rheumatoid arthritis
e) Wilms tumor
a)Congestive heart failure
b)Crohn disease
c)Lymphoma
d)Rheumatoid arthritis
e) Wilms tumor