Hyperplasia
- correct answer Increased multiplication of cells
Rheumatoid Arthritis VS. Osteoarthritis
- correct answer RA occurs all over body, in younger peopleworse in the morning, requires a blood test
OA worse at night and occurs in older people, wear down of protective cartilage
Opportunistic deseases seen in AIDS patients
- correct answer Thrush, Pneumoctstis pnemonia (PCP), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Kaposi Sarcoma
(Causes lesions)
What can cause bloody diarrhea?
- correct answer Dysentery, IBS, Crohn's
Lymohademopathy
- correct answer enlarged lymph nodes bc of infection or cancer
Hypersplenism
- correct answer overactive spleen-WBC, RBC, platelets get eaten
S/S anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia
Spleenomegaly
- correct answer enlargment of the spleen
causes: increased hemolysis of RBC
,Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI)
- correct answer ploppy veins and valves, poor venous return,
S/S edema, brown skin, breaks in skin that cant heal bc can't get though edema
Polycythemia Vera
- correct answer Blood cancer that causes an overproduction of RBC making blood thick and sludgy
treated by donating blood
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- correct answer Caused by virchow's triad
S/S swelling, redness, warm
Virchow's Triad
- correct answer Venous stasis- Hypercoaguability- vascular wall injury
Pulmonary Embolism
- correct answer S/S SOB bloody sputum, right heart backflow
Arterial insufficiency
- correct answer Plaque build up,hardening of walls
etiology: genetics, lack of exercise, diet, alcoholism, smoking
Peripheral Arterial disease (PAD)
- correct answer Narrowed blood vessels cause lack of blood flow
S/S Pain, Paresthesia (prickly burning), Pallor (unhealthily pale)
Terratogenic influences on pregnant woman
- correct answer drugs, alcohol
, Alternative name for Down syndrome
- correct answer Trisomy 21
3 single gene disorders
- correct answer autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant,
sex-linked
Carcinoma
- correct answer malignant epithelium (Skin cancer)
Dysplasia
- correct answer abnormal growth of cells, tissues, bone, or an organ
McCardle's disease
- correct answer a glycogen storage disease
S/S Muscle pain, weakness,cramps, exercise intolerance
Beriberi disease
- correct answer Lack of thiamine (B1)causing problems with Memory and parasthesia
etiology: alcoholism, poor diet
S/S SOB, swollen legs, pain
Sickle cell anemia
- correct answer Autosomal recessive disease
mutates RBC C shaped
S/S SOB, fatigue, ischemia esp, in joints