EVALUATION 2026 GUARANTEED PASS
ANSWERS GRADED A+
● Preventing _______ decreases risk for developing adenocarcinoma.
Answer: GERD
● What does it mean when an xray shows a "bird beak"? Answer:
achalasia
● What are the signs and symptoms of stomach disease? Answer:
hematemesis (most commonly due to peptic ulcer disease) and melana
● What are the four anatomic regions of the stomach? Answer: cardia,
fundus, body, and antrum
● What goes on in the cardia region of the stomach? Answer: foveolar
cells form shallow glands
● What goes on in the fundus region of the stomach? Answer: chief cells
produce and secrete digestive enzymes like pepsin
● What goes on in the body region of the stomach? Answer: chief cells
, ● What goes on in the antrum region of the stomach? Answer: contain
endocrine cells (G cells release gastrin to stimulate luminal acid
secretion by parietal cells with in the fundus and the body)
● What are the causes of gastritis? Answer: -nonsteroidal
antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
-alcohol, helicobacter pylor
-CMV (AIDS), smoking
-Burns (Curling ulcers), CNS injury (Cushing ulcers)
-Uremia
● What are the clinical findings of gastritis? Answer: -hematemesis
-melena
-iron deficiency
● What is the difference between type A and B chronic atrophic
gastritis? Answer: Type A involves the body and fundus, while type B
involves the antrum and pylorus
● Peptic ulcer disease is most often caused by ________ Answer: H.
pylori