NSG 3850 EXAM 3 ENRICHMENT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Adult polycystic kidney disease - Answers - manifests with decreasing renal function
and hypertension in adulthood
In chronic glomerulonephritis - Answers - progression to end-stage renal disease is
common
Movement of renal calculi into the ureter produces - Answers - renal colic
Risk factors for acute pyelonephritis include all of the following except?
A) diabetes mellitus
B) kidney trauma
C) pregnancy
D) elderly age - Answers - B) Kidney trauma
the finding of white blood cell casts in the urine is indicative of - Answers -
pyelonephritis
The finding of red blood cell casts in the urine is indicative of - Answers -
Glomerulonephritis
polycystic kidney disease (PKD) - Answers - Genetic disorder in which fluid-filled cysts
develop in the kidneys.
Prerenal kidney injury, regardless of the specific cause, has a single common etiologic
factor, which is - Answers - decreased kidney perfusion
All of the following could produce prerenal kidney in jury except - Answers -
pyelonephritis
Kidney injury produces all of the following characteristic alterations in laboratory values
except?
A) increased creatinine levels
B) increased potassium levels
C) increased phosphorus levels
D) increased calcium levels - Answers - D) increased calcium levels
Which of the following patients is at highest risk for developing prerenal acute kidney
injury? - Answers - A young man with significant post surgical hemorrhage
ANSWERS
Adult polycystic kidney disease - Answers - manifests with decreasing renal function
and hypertension in adulthood
In chronic glomerulonephritis - Answers - progression to end-stage renal disease is
common
Movement of renal calculi into the ureter produces - Answers - renal colic
Risk factors for acute pyelonephritis include all of the following except?
A) diabetes mellitus
B) kidney trauma
C) pregnancy
D) elderly age - Answers - B) Kidney trauma
the finding of white blood cell casts in the urine is indicative of - Answers -
pyelonephritis
The finding of red blood cell casts in the urine is indicative of - Answers -
Glomerulonephritis
polycystic kidney disease (PKD) - Answers - Genetic disorder in which fluid-filled cysts
develop in the kidneys.
Prerenal kidney injury, regardless of the specific cause, has a single common etiologic
factor, which is - Answers - decreased kidney perfusion
All of the following could produce prerenal kidney in jury except - Answers -
pyelonephritis
Kidney injury produces all of the following characteristic alterations in laboratory values
except?
A) increased creatinine levels
B) increased potassium levels
C) increased phosphorus levels
D) increased calcium levels - Answers - D) increased calcium levels
Which of the following patients is at highest risk for developing prerenal acute kidney
injury? - Answers - A young man with significant post surgical hemorrhage
