NUR 631 Advanced Patho Final
Comprehensive Questions with
Verified Answers Graded A+
Vasospastic disorder of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers and less commonly of the
toes - Answer: Best describes Raynauds Disease
Liver - Answer: Vitamin K is required for normal clotting factor synthesis by what?
Gluten sensitive eneropathy - Answer: Characterized by damage to the mucosa of the
duodenum, jejunum and impaired secretion of secretin, cholecytokinin, and pancreatic enzymes
What causes a person with cystic fibrosis to experience an exocrine pancreatic insufficiency? -
Answer: Pancreatic ducts are obstructed with mucus
What factor associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy (ciliac sprue) causes an infant to
bruise and bleed easily? - Answer: Vitamin K deficiency from fat malabsorption
Saliva contains which immunoglobulin? - Answer: IgA
Where is the region responsible for motor aspects of speech located? - Answer: Broca frontal
lobe
Why status epilepticus is considered a medical emergency? - Answer: Cerebral Hypoxia
,Which condition poses the highest risk for CVA? - Answer: Hypertension
Benign, slow growing tumor that arise from cells of anterior pituitary. Commonly secrete GH &
prolactin - Answer: pituitary adenoma
Permits backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium during ventricular systole -
Answer: Mitral regurgitation
Most common etiologic agent is Epstein barr virus - Answer: infectious mononucleosis
Slowly progressing blood cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow. - Answer: Chronic
melogenous leukemia (CML)
95% have Philidelphia chromosome present. Patient is usually asymptomatic.
WBC elevated
Cancer of lymphatic system. - Answer: Hodgkin lymphoma
May produce free immunoglobulin light chain (Bence Jones protein) that is present in the blood
and urine of 80% of patients
Treatment for polycythemia - Answer: Phlebotomy
How does the body compensate for anemia? - Answer: Kidneys release more erythropoietin
What type of anemia is characterized by fatigue, weakness, dyspnea, brittle concave nails, and
conjunctive of eyes - Answer: Iron Deficiency
, The underlying disorder of which anemia is a result of the defective secretion of the intrinsic
factor which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12 - Answer: Pernicious which is also
classified as a megaloblastic anemia
Deficiencies in folate and vitamin B12 alter the synthesis of what? - Answer: DNA
PFT- pulmonary function test - Answer: The critical criteria for diagnosis of lung function.
involves looking at the FEV1/FVC ratio as it will be less than 0.70
Aplastic anemia and pancytopenia develops as a result of? - Answer: Suppression of the bone
marrow to produce adequate amounts of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes
Unregulated release of thrombin with subsequent fibrin formation and accelerated fibrinolysis -
Answer: Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC
Example of compensatory hyperplasia - Answer: Liver Regeneration
What causes the rapid change in the resting membrane potential to initiate action potential -
Answer: Sodium gates open, sodium rises into the cell which changes the membrane potential
from negative to positive
What type of necrosis is often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis? - Answer: Caseous
Necrosis
Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure - Answer:
plasma oncotic
When a child inherits a disease that is autosomal recessive, who is it inherited from? - Answer:
Both parents are carriers
Comprehensive Questions with
Verified Answers Graded A+
Vasospastic disorder of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers and less commonly of the
toes - Answer: Best describes Raynauds Disease
Liver - Answer: Vitamin K is required for normal clotting factor synthesis by what?
Gluten sensitive eneropathy - Answer: Characterized by damage to the mucosa of the
duodenum, jejunum and impaired secretion of secretin, cholecytokinin, and pancreatic enzymes
What causes a person with cystic fibrosis to experience an exocrine pancreatic insufficiency? -
Answer: Pancreatic ducts are obstructed with mucus
What factor associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy (ciliac sprue) causes an infant to
bruise and bleed easily? - Answer: Vitamin K deficiency from fat malabsorption
Saliva contains which immunoglobulin? - Answer: IgA
Where is the region responsible for motor aspects of speech located? - Answer: Broca frontal
lobe
Why status epilepticus is considered a medical emergency? - Answer: Cerebral Hypoxia
,Which condition poses the highest risk for CVA? - Answer: Hypertension
Benign, slow growing tumor that arise from cells of anterior pituitary. Commonly secrete GH &
prolactin - Answer: pituitary adenoma
Permits backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium during ventricular systole -
Answer: Mitral regurgitation
Most common etiologic agent is Epstein barr virus - Answer: infectious mononucleosis
Slowly progressing blood cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow. - Answer: Chronic
melogenous leukemia (CML)
95% have Philidelphia chromosome present. Patient is usually asymptomatic.
WBC elevated
Cancer of lymphatic system. - Answer: Hodgkin lymphoma
May produce free immunoglobulin light chain (Bence Jones protein) that is present in the blood
and urine of 80% of patients
Treatment for polycythemia - Answer: Phlebotomy
How does the body compensate for anemia? - Answer: Kidneys release more erythropoietin
What type of anemia is characterized by fatigue, weakness, dyspnea, brittle concave nails, and
conjunctive of eyes - Answer: Iron Deficiency
, The underlying disorder of which anemia is a result of the defective secretion of the intrinsic
factor which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12 - Answer: Pernicious which is also
classified as a megaloblastic anemia
Deficiencies in folate and vitamin B12 alter the synthesis of what? - Answer: DNA
PFT- pulmonary function test - Answer: The critical criteria for diagnosis of lung function.
involves looking at the FEV1/FVC ratio as it will be less than 0.70
Aplastic anemia and pancytopenia develops as a result of? - Answer: Suppression of the bone
marrow to produce adequate amounts of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes
Unregulated release of thrombin with subsequent fibrin formation and accelerated fibrinolysis -
Answer: Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC
Example of compensatory hyperplasia - Answer: Liver Regeneration
What causes the rapid change in the resting membrane potential to initiate action potential -
Answer: Sodium gates open, sodium rises into the cell which changes the membrane potential
from negative to positive
What type of necrosis is often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis? - Answer: Caseous
Necrosis
Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure - Answer:
plasma oncotic
When a child inherits a disease that is autosomal recessive, who is it inherited from? - Answer:
Both parents are carriers
