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ABSITE EXAM LATEST 2024 TESTBANK ALL 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2024-
2025
QUESTION: What is the embryologic origin of the inferior parathyroid gland?
a.) 4th arch
b.) 4th pouch
c.) 3rd arch
d.) 3rd pouch - ANSWER-(d)
Derivatives of the 3rd pouch include the inferior parathyroid glands and the thymus. The main
nerve supply is the glossopharyngeal nerve. Superior parathyroids come from the 4th pouch
QUESTION: What is the cause of hypotension and decreased EtCO2 during laparoscopic surgery
a.) Tension pneumothorax
b.) Inferior vena cava compression
c.) CO2 embolus
d.) Anesthetic overdose - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: Increased levels of glutamine are associated with all of the following EXCEPT:
a.) decreased incidence of clinical infections in patients receiving bone marrow transplantation
b.) vitro suppression of hepatoma growth
c.) alleviation of depletion of muscle glutamine stores
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d.) decreased glutathione levels in tumor cells during radiation therapy or chemotherapy
e.) increased tumor growth in patients with advanced malignant disease - ANSWER-(e)
Glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in the body, can be trapped by a growing tumor,
depleting the body's glutamine stores and producing cachexia. A prospective, randomized,
double-blind trial demonstrated that patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation had
significantly decreased clinical infections when they received supplemental glutamine.
Glutamine also reduced the glutathione levels in tumor cells of patients undergoing
chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The concern that administering glutamine would promote
tumor growth has proven unfounded.
QUESTION: Which of the following is an inhibitor of wound contraction?
a.) Aspirin
b.) d-penicillamine
c.) Colchicine
d.) Glucocorticoids - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: In contrast to adults, fetal wound healing biochemistry is characterized by which of
the following?
a.) ↑ inflmmatory phase
b.) ↑ content of type III collagen
c.) ↑ level of transforming growth factor-B
d.) ↓ hyaluronic acid synthesis - ANSWER-(a)
QUESTION: Death from postoperative renal failure is most commonly due to?
a.) Myocardial infarction
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b.) Bleeding
c.) Sepsis
d.) Liver failure - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: In hyperacute rejection of a recently transplanted kidney, the event associated with
organ loss is:
a.) Direct antibody effect on interstitial stromal cells.
b.) Ischemia.
c.) Antigen antibody complexes obstructing the proximal convoluted tubule.
d.) Direct antibody effect on the glomerulus.
e.) Destruction of the Loop of Henle. - ANSWER-(b)
Preformed anti-donor antibodies that then target the surface of vascular endothelial cells and
graft parenchymal cells. (occurs with minutes to hours and treatment is removal of organ)
Circulating complement is fixed in the vascular compartment and the environment changes
from anticoagulant to procoagulant and vascular thrombosis occurs. Death of the organ is
secondary to ischemia.
QUESTION: Which of the following statements about fetal circulation are true?
a.) Approximately 25% of all blood volume is passed through the fetal lung; the remainder is
shunted into the left ventricle.
b.) The umbilical arteries carry oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus.
c.) Failure of pulmonary vascular resistance to fall immediately following birth will result in
neonatal respiratory failure.
d.) The ductus arteriosus closes anatomically in the first hour of life. - ANSWER-(c)
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With the first breath, the oxygen delivered to the neonatal lung stimulates a fall in pulmonary
vascular resistance. This results in a decrease, then obliterated, right-to-left shunt through the
foramen ovule and ductus arteriosus.
Only 7% of blood is sent to the lungs in utero
QUESTION: Follicular thyroid carcinoma
a.) Is the most common thyroid cancer
b.) Is readily diagnosed with FNA
c.) Spreds via the hematogenous route
d.) Is commonly multifocal - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: What genetic mutation is associated with MEN syndromes?
a.) RET
b.) APC
c.) MSH2
d.) p53
e.) N-myc - ANSWER-(a)
RET-proto-oncogene
QUESTION: What is the treatment of failed chemo/radiation for anal canal cloacogenic
carcinoma?
(a) LAR
(b) More chemo/radiation
(c) APR
ABSITE EXAM LATEST 2024 TESTBANK ALL 500
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2024-
2025
QUESTION: What is the embryologic origin of the inferior parathyroid gland?
a.) 4th arch
b.) 4th pouch
c.) 3rd arch
d.) 3rd pouch - ANSWER-(d)
Derivatives of the 3rd pouch include the inferior parathyroid glands and the thymus. The main
nerve supply is the glossopharyngeal nerve. Superior parathyroids come from the 4th pouch
QUESTION: What is the cause of hypotension and decreased EtCO2 during laparoscopic surgery
a.) Tension pneumothorax
b.) Inferior vena cava compression
c.) CO2 embolus
d.) Anesthetic overdose - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: Increased levels of glutamine are associated with all of the following EXCEPT:
a.) decreased incidence of clinical infections in patients receiving bone marrow transplantation
b.) vitro suppression of hepatoma growth
c.) alleviation of depletion of muscle glutamine stores
,2|Page
d.) decreased glutathione levels in tumor cells during radiation therapy or chemotherapy
e.) increased tumor growth in patients with advanced malignant disease - ANSWER-(e)
Glutamine, the most abundant amino acid in the body, can be trapped by a growing tumor,
depleting the body's glutamine stores and producing cachexia. A prospective, randomized,
double-blind trial demonstrated that patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation had
significantly decreased clinical infections when they received supplemental glutamine.
Glutamine also reduced the glutathione levels in tumor cells of patients undergoing
chemotherapy or radiation therapy. The concern that administering glutamine would promote
tumor growth has proven unfounded.
QUESTION: Which of the following is an inhibitor of wound contraction?
a.) Aspirin
b.) d-penicillamine
c.) Colchicine
d.) Glucocorticoids - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: In contrast to adults, fetal wound healing biochemistry is characterized by which of
the following?
a.) ↑ inflmmatory phase
b.) ↑ content of type III collagen
c.) ↑ level of transforming growth factor-B
d.) ↓ hyaluronic acid synthesis - ANSWER-(a)
QUESTION: Death from postoperative renal failure is most commonly due to?
a.) Myocardial infarction
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b.) Bleeding
c.) Sepsis
d.) Liver failure - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: In hyperacute rejection of a recently transplanted kidney, the event associated with
organ loss is:
a.) Direct antibody effect on interstitial stromal cells.
b.) Ischemia.
c.) Antigen antibody complexes obstructing the proximal convoluted tubule.
d.) Direct antibody effect on the glomerulus.
e.) Destruction of the Loop of Henle. - ANSWER-(b)
Preformed anti-donor antibodies that then target the surface of vascular endothelial cells and
graft parenchymal cells. (occurs with minutes to hours and treatment is removal of organ)
Circulating complement is fixed in the vascular compartment and the environment changes
from anticoagulant to procoagulant and vascular thrombosis occurs. Death of the organ is
secondary to ischemia.
QUESTION: Which of the following statements about fetal circulation are true?
a.) Approximately 25% of all blood volume is passed through the fetal lung; the remainder is
shunted into the left ventricle.
b.) The umbilical arteries carry oxygenated blood from the placenta to the fetus.
c.) Failure of pulmonary vascular resistance to fall immediately following birth will result in
neonatal respiratory failure.
d.) The ductus arteriosus closes anatomically in the first hour of life. - ANSWER-(c)
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With the first breath, the oxygen delivered to the neonatal lung stimulates a fall in pulmonary
vascular resistance. This results in a decrease, then obliterated, right-to-left shunt through the
foramen ovule and ductus arteriosus.
Only 7% of blood is sent to the lungs in utero
QUESTION: Follicular thyroid carcinoma
a.) Is the most common thyroid cancer
b.) Is readily diagnosed with FNA
c.) Spreds via the hematogenous route
d.) Is commonly multifocal - ANSWER-(c)
QUESTION: What genetic mutation is associated with MEN syndromes?
a.) RET
b.) APC
c.) MSH2
d.) p53
e.) N-myc - ANSWER-(a)
RET-proto-oncogene
QUESTION: What is the treatment of failed chemo/radiation for anal canal cloacogenic
carcinoma?
(a) LAR
(b) More chemo/radiation
(c) APR
