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NUR 631 Advanced Patho Final EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED VERSION THIS YEAR
Question: PFT- pulmonary function test - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The critical criteria for
diagnosis of lung function. involves looking at the FEV1/FVC ratio as it will be less than 0.70
Question: Aplastic anemia and pancytopenia develops as a result of? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Suppression of the bone marrow to produce adequate amounts of erythrocytes,
leukocytes, and thrombocytes
Question: Unregulated release of thrombin with subsequent fibrin formation and accelerated
fibrinolysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC
Question: Example of compensatory hyperplasia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Liver Regeneration
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Question: What causes the rapid change in the resting membrane potential to initiate action
potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sodium gates open, sodium rises into the cell which changes
the membrane potential from negative to positive
Question: What type of necrosis is often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Caseous Necrosis
Question: Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔plasma oncotic
Question: When a child inherits a disease that is autosomal recessive, who is it inherited from?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Both parents are carriers
Question: What mechanism can cause hypernatremia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Loss of H2O
DM
Insufficient H2O intake
hyperonic solution
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over secretion of aldosterone
Cushing Disease
Q:Vasospastic disorder of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers and less commonly of
the toes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Best describes Raynauds Disease
Question: Liver - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vitamin K is required for normal clotting factor
synthesis by what?
Question: Gluten sensitive eneropathy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Characterized by damage to the
mucosa of the duodenum, jejunum and impaired secretion of secretin, cholecytokinin, and
pancreatic enzymes
Question: What causes a person with cystic fibrosis to experience an exocrine pancreatic
insufficiency? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pancreatic ducts are obstructed with mucus
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Question: What factor associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy (ciliac sprue) causes an
infant to bruise and bleed easily? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vitamin K deficiency from fat
malabsorption
Question: Saliva contains which immunoglobulin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔IgA
Question: Where is the region responsible for motor aspects of speech located? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Broca frontal lobe
Question: Why status epilepticus is considered a medical emergency? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Cerebral Hypoxia
Question: Which condition poses the highest risk for CVA? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Hypertension
Question: Benign, slow growing tumor that arise from cells of anterior pituitary. Commonly
secrete GH & prolactin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pituitary adenoma
NUR 631 Advanced Patho Final EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS
LATEST UPDATED VERSION THIS YEAR
Question: PFT- pulmonary function test - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The critical criteria for
diagnosis of lung function. involves looking at the FEV1/FVC ratio as it will be less than 0.70
Question: Aplastic anemia and pancytopenia develops as a result of? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Suppression of the bone marrow to produce adequate amounts of erythrocytes,
leukocytes, and thrombocytes
Question: Unregulated release of thrombin with subsequent fibrin formation and accelerated
fibrinolysis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC
Question: Example of compensatory hyperplasia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Liver Regeneration
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Question: What causes the rapid change in the resting membrane potential to initiate action
potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sodium gates open, sodium rises into the cell which changes
the membrane potential from negative to positive
Question: What type of necrosis is often associated with pulmonary tuberculosis? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Caseous Necrosis
Question: Low plasma albumin causes edema as a result of a reduction in which pressure -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔plasma oncotic
Question: When a child inherits a disease that is autosomal recessive, who is it inherited from?
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Both parents are carriers
Question: What mechanism can cause hypernatremia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Loss of H2O
DM
Insufficient H2O intake
hyperonic solution
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over secretion of aldosterone
Cushing Disease
Q:Vasospastic disorder of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers and less commonly of
the toes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Best describes Raynauds Disease
Question: Liver - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vitamin K is required for normal clotting factor
synthesis by what?
Question: Gluten sensitive eneropathy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Characterized by damage to the
mucosa of the duodenum, jejunum and impaired secretion of secretin, cholecytokinin, and
pancreatic enzymes
Question: What causes a person with cystic fibrosis to experience an exocrine pancreatic
insufficiency? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pancreatic ducts are obstructed with mucus
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Question: What factor associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy (ciliac sprue) causes an
infant to bruise and bleed easily? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Vitamin K deficiency from fat
malabsorption
Question: Saliva contains which immunoglobulin? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔IgA
Question: Where is the region responsible for motor aspects of speech located? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Broca frontal lobe
Question: Why status epilepticus is considered a medical emergency? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Cerebral Hypoxia
Question: Which condition poses the highest risk for CVA? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Hypertension
Question: Benign, slow growing tumor that arise from cells of anterior pituitary. Commonly
secrete GH & prolactin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔pituitary adenoma
