Question 1: A 35-year-old patient presents with complaints of chest pain and regurgitation of food after eating and reports a history of asthma. Discuss the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and clinical implications of a plausible cause for this presentation, including pathophysiologic interrelationships between asthma and that diagnosis.
Question 2: Choose one of these alterations of digestive function in children and explain the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and clinical implications of the alteration:
- Hirschsprung disease
- Pyloric stenosis
- Intussusception
- Neonatal jaundice
Question 3: A patient presents to the emergency department with a day's history of severe right lower quadrant pain, nausea, vomiting, and fever. Choosing one condition that could cause this, discuss the underlying pathophysiology's clinical manifestations and the patient's clinical implications.