KROK 1 2012 – Question 89 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A child suffers from drug idiosyncrasy. What is the cause of such reaction?
- A. Associated disease of target organ
- B. Hereditary enzymopathy
- C. Accumulation of pharmaceutical substance
- D. Inhibition of microsomal liver enzymes
- E. Exhaustion of substrate interacting with pharmaceutical substance
Hint
Idiosyncrasy is an abnormal response that is not explained by the dose; ask what underlying feature of the individual patient could explain it.
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