ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY FINAL EXAM REVIEW
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary
for the patient on nitroglycerin therapy?
Answer:
To inhibit the development of tolerance
Question:
2. What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone
indicate?
Answer:
Hyperthroidism
Question:
3. What would be the best option to treat a newly
diagnosed patient with a low TSH level with?
Answer:
Propanolol (Inderal)
Question:
4. Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of
action (MOA)?
Answer:
Aldosterone antagonist
Question:
5. Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Answer:
Upregulating the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules,
antithrombin III
Question:
6. What physiologic action happens when the offending
drug is administered during an anaphylactic reaction.
Answer:
Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
, Question:
7. What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Answer:
Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
Question:
8. What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of
patients with uncomplicated stage I hypertension?
Answer:
Thiazide diuretics
Question:
9. What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Answer:
Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle
cells.
Question:
10. Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which
birth control medication?
Answer:
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
Question:
11. What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with
epinephrine for available beta-receptor sites?
Answer:
Atenolol (Tenormin)
Question:
12. What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Answer:
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
Question:
13. What is the recommended level of low-density
lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) for patients with known
coronary artery disease?
Answer:
100mg/dl or less.
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Question:
1. Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary
for the patient on nitroglycerin therapy?
Answer:
To inhibit the development of tolerance
Question:
2. What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone
indicate?
Answer:
Hyperthroidism
Question:
3. What would be the best option to treat a newly
diagnosed patient with a low TSH level with?
Answer:
Propanolol (Inderal)
Question:
4. Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of
action (MOA)?
Answer:
Aldosterone antagonist
Question:
5. Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Answer:
Upregulating the activity of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules,
antithrombin III
Question:
6. What physiologic action happens when the offending
drug is administered during an anaphylactic reaction.
Answer:
Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
, Question:
7. What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Answer:
Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
Question:
8. What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of
patients with uncomplicated stage I hypertension?
Answer:
Thiazide diuretics
Question:
9. What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Answer:
Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle
cells.
Question:
10. Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which
birth control medication?
Answer:
Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
Question:
11. What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with
epinephrine for available beta-receptor sites?
Answer:
Atenolol (Tenormin)
Question:
12. What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Answer:
Reduction in systemic venous tone.
Question:
13. What is the recommended level of low-density
lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) for patients with known
coronary artery disease?
Answer:
100mg/dl or less.
