WGU D115 Unit 5 Brief Questions with Adequately
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accounts for 30% of childhood lymphomas - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Burkitt Lymphoma- a
B- cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma-
Acute Leukemias happen how - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -abrupt and rapid onset
cause of ITP - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -In 70% of ITP cases, there is an antecedent viral
disease that stimulates production of antiplatelet antibodies that bind to the plasma membranes of
platelets, causing platelet sequestration and destruction by phagocytes in the spleen and other
lymphoid tissues at a rate that exceeds the ability of the bone marrow to produce them.
chief phagocytes of early inflammation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Neutrophil- 57-67% of
total leukocytes
Describe systolic heart failure. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Systolic heart failure is reduced
contractility of the myocardium so that the heart is unable to produce enough cardiac output to
meet the oxygen demands of body cells.
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Describe what causes pernicious anemia. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Pernicious anemia is
caused by vitamin B12 deficiency, which is often associated with the end stage of type A chronic
atrophic (autoimmune) gastritis. Autoimmune gastritis impairs the production of IF, which is
required for vitamin B12 uptake from the gut.
, explain why the nurse practitioner should ask the patient about her paresthesias and ataxia. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Without the presence of intrinsic factor, vitamin B12 will not be
absorbed effectively from the gastrointestinal tract.
HTN is a risk factor for coronary atherosclerosis. What does it do to afterload? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔️✔️ -It also increases afterload and causes ventricular hypertrophy, both of which
increase myocardial oxygen demand.
Leading cause of CAD and cerebrovasuclar disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -
Atherosclerosis
most common blood disorder in children - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -. Anemia
Most common cardiovascular disease condition - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Hypertension then
coronary atherosclerosis (HTN is a risk factor)
Most common chronic leukemia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -CLL-involves malignant
transformation and progressive accumulation of monoclonal B
lymphocytes.
Most common complication of acute MI - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Dysrhythmias
most common nutritional deficiency in kids - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Iron deficiency
anemia. with highest incidence between 6 months and two years of age due to high need for iron
for growth.
Most common valve disorder - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -mitral valve prolapse
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accounts for 30% of childhood lymphomas - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Burkitt Lymphoma- a
B- cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma-
Acute Leukemias happen how - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -abrupt and rapid onset
cause of ITP - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -In 70% of ITP cases, there is an antecedent viral
disease that stimulates production of antiplatelet antibodies that bind to the plasma membranes of
platelets, causing platelet sequestration and destruction by phagocytes in the spleen and other
lymphoid tissues at a rate that exceeds the ability of the bone marrow to produce them.
chief phagocytes of early inflammation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Neutrophil- 57-67% of
total leukocytes
Describe systolic heart failure. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Systolic heart failure is reduced
contractility of the myocardium so that the heart is unable to produce enough cardiac output to
meet the oxygen demands of body cells.
Previousquestion
Describe what causes pernicious anemia. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Pernicious anemia is
caused by vitamin B12 deficiency, which is often associated with the end stage of type A chronic
atrophic (autoimmune) gastritis. Autoimmune gastritis impairs the production of IF, which is
required for vitamin B12 uptake from the gut.
, explain why the nurse practitioner should ask the patient about her paresthesias and ataxia. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Without the presence of intrinsic factor, vitamin B12 will not be
absorbed effectively from the gastrointestinal tract.
HTN is a risk factor for coronary atherosclerosis. What does it do to afterload? - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔️✔️ -It also increases afterload and causes ventricular hypertrophy, both of which
increase myocardial oxygen demand.
Leading cause of CAD and cerebrovasuclar disease - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -
Atherosclerosis
most common blood disorder in children - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -. Anemia
Most common cardiovascular disease condition - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Hypertension then
coronary atherosclerosis (HTN is a risk factor)
Most common chronic leukemia - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -CLL-involves malignant
transformation and progressive accumulation of monoclonal B
lymphocytes.
Most common complication of acute MI - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Dysrhythmias
most common nutritional deficiency in kids - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -Iron deficiency
anemia. with highest incidence between 6 months and two years of age due to high need for iron
for growth.
Most common valve disorder - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️✔️ -mitral valve prolapse
