WCU PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026

WCU PATHOPHYSIOLOGY MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025/2026 Angina caused by coronary artery spasm is called _____ angina. - Answer -Prinzmetal Variant Hypertrophy of the right ventricle is a compensatory response to - Answer -Pulmonary Stenosis Sings and symptoms of extracellular fluid volume excess include - Answer -bounding pulse Apoptosis is a process that results in cellular - Answer -death A patient presenting with fever, hypotension, and lactic acidosis is most likely to be experiencing what type of shock? - Answer -Septic When systemic vascular resistance is decreased, blood flow - Answer - decreases Overproduction of nitric oxide is an important aspect of the pathophysiologic process of what type of shock? - Answer -Septic Rheumatic heart disease is most often a consequence of - Answer -β- hemolytic streptococcal infection.A patient with heart failure who reports intermittent shortness of breath during the night is experiencing - Answer -paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea The effects of histamine release include - Answer -increased vascular permeability A diagnostic laboratory finding in myeloma is - Answer -Bence Jones proteins in the urine Emesis causes - Answer -metabolic alkalosis Necrotic death of brain tissue usually produces _________ necrosis - Answer -liquefactive Metabolic alkalosis is often accompanied by - Answer -hypokalemia A patient diagnosed with chronic compensated heart failure reports that, "My feet swell if I eat salt but I don't understand why" The nurse's best response is - Answer -"Salt holds water in your blood and makes more pressure against your blood vessels, so fluid leaks out into your tissues and makes them swell." Cancer grading is based on - Answer -cell differentiation The most common primary immune deficiency that affects only B cells is - Answer -Selective IgA Which dysrhythmia is thought to be associated with reentrant mechanisms? - Answer -Preexcitation syndrome tachycardia (WolfParkinson-White syndrome)A 3-year old boy who exhibits prolonged bleeding after minor trauma and a prolonged aPTT, bu a normal platelet count, is likely to be diagnosed with - Answer -Hemophilia The majority of cardiac cells that die after myocardial infarction do so because of - Answer -apoptosis Dramatic hypotension sometimes accompanies type I hypersensitivity reactions because - Answer -massive histamine release from mast cells leads to vasodilation What results when systemic blood pressure is incre