KROK 1 2011 – Question 59 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A child suffers from drug idiosyncrasy. What is the cause of such reaction?
- A. Inhibition of microsomal liver enzymes
- B. Exhaustion of substrate interacting with pharmaceutical substance
- C. Associated disease of target organ
- D. Hereditary enzymopathy
- E. Accumulation of pharmaceutical substance
Hint
Recall that idiosyncrasy is an abnormal, qualitatively unusual reaction that appears on first exposure and is independent of dose; ask what in the patient's own constitution could cause that.
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