Raspiricase is a medication that lowers uric acid levels to treat tumor lysis syndrome, a rare form of gouty arthritis precipitated by chemotherapy for cancer. In this mnemonic video, we'll cover important facts about raspiricase, so you'll be ready come test day. In today's video, we're outside learning how to create a delectable dish featuring raspberries.
These raspberries will serve as your memory anchor to Raspuricase. Get it? Since raspberry sounds almost exactly like Raspuricase?
Now that you're anchored to the scene, let's move on to learn how Raspuricase works. The chef keeps her lemons fresh by storing them in this stone yurt. Fresh lemons are the key to making this raspberry recipe.
The stone yurt full of lemons is our symbol for uric acid. Let me break that down for you. Yurt sounds like uric acid, and lemons remind me of acid since lemons are acidic.
right? This is to help you remember that raspberry case works by lowering uric acid when the body has an excess. And when might the body have extra uric acid?
Let's move on to the next symbol to find out. The raspberry sauce is going to be served with crab, which the chef is preparing right now by splitting the legs right down the middle. Here at Pixerize, we use a crab to symbolize cancer. You know, since the zodiac sign for cancer is a crab.
Well, when you think of this chef splitting the crab, remember tumor lysis syndrome. Tumor lysis syndrome happens when cancer cells lyse or split, releasing their contents when they die. This split crab is similar to a split cancer cell.
Get it? These cancer cells tend to die and split in large amounts after chemotherapy, and their contents are released into the body, including a ton of uric acid. Uric acid buildup this quickly can lead to a ton of problems, like gout in kidney stones, for example.
That's where Rasburicase comes in, because it lowers the uric acid levels, thereby treating tumor lysis syndrome. Got that? Rasburicase is often given along with chemotherapeutic drugs to prevent the onset of this syndrome. Alright, that's all for this mnemonic.
Let's recap. Rasburocase is a medication that lowers uric acid levels. This can be used to treat patients experiencing tumor lysis syndrome, a form of gout caused by the release of uric acid by dying cancer cells. And now, we're actually done with rasburocase.
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