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NURS 6030 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS

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NURS 6030 Exam 2, focusing on hematology, immunity, and infectious disease. It covers anemias (iron deficiency, B12 deficiency, folic acid deficiency, aplastic anemia, hemolytic anemia, sickle cell anemia), polycythemia (vera, secondary), thrombocytopenia (heparin-induced, immune-mediated), and leukemias (acute vs. chronic, myeloid vs. lymphoid, Philadelphia chromosome). Additional topics include lymphomas (Hodgkin vs. non-Hodgkin), multiple myeloma, oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, cancer cell characteristics, prions, bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, and the immune system (innate vs. adaptive, humoral vs. cellular, hypersensitivity types I–IV, cytokines, complement system). The stages of infection (incubation, prodrome, acute, convalescent, resolution) and wound healing (primary, secondary intention, regeneration, repair) are also reviewed.

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MCV


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mean corpuscular volume.
size of RBC.




the Philadelphia chromosome is associated with which type of cancer?

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leukemia.




autoimmunity


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complex disorders that don't have a single source.
inherit "susceptibility genes"; change in gene expression rather than
sequence.
may be malfunction of adaptive immunity; ;environmental factors can
trigger.




exotoxins


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proteins, enzymes, neurotoxins.




polycythemia


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, excess number of RBCs.
relative: loss of plasma volume.
primary: polycythemia vera.
secondary: response to chronic hypoxia (high altitude)
-most common
-smoking, COPD, heart disease,




regeneration and repair phase


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healing; wound is filled in with collagen and then replaced with scar tissue.




thrombocytopenia


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low number of platelets.
caused by decreased production by bone marrow, or decreased platelet
survival.




resolution stage


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disease is no longer present in the patient.

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