Advanced Pharmacology Final Exam
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Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on
nitroglycerin therapy? - ✔✔To inhibit the development of tolerance
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate? -
✔✔Hyperthroidism
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low
TSH level with? - ✔✔Propanolol (Inderal)
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)? -
✔✔Aldosterone antagonist
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what? - ✔✔Upregulating the activity
of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules, antithrombin III
What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is administered
during an anaphylactic reaction. - ✔✔Mast cells liberate large doses of
histamine.
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, What are two systemic psoriasis medications? - ✔✔Photo-therapy and
topical corticosteroids
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with
uncomplicated stage I hypertension? - ✔✔Thiazide diuretics
What is the effect of cardiac glycosides? - ✔✔Digitalis glycosides have a
negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication? - ✔✔Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for
available beta-receptor sites? - ✔✔Atenolol (Tenormin)
What type of action does nitrates have on the body? - ✔✔Reduction in
systemic venous tone.
What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL)
for patients with known coronary artery disease? - ✔✔100mg/dl or less.
What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs? - ✔✔Depressing
phase 4 depolarization and lengthening phases 1 and 2 repolarization.
Which drug therapy should be used to lower the serum concentration of
thyroid hormones and re-establish eumetabolic state in a patient with
Graves' disease? - ✔✔Anti-thyroid drugs.
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Review Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on
nitroglycerin therapy? - ✔✔To inhibit the development of tolerance
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate? -
✔✔Hyperthroidism
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low
TSH level with? - ✔✔Propanolol (Inderal)
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)? -
✔✔Aldosterone antagonist
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what? - ✔✔Upregulating the activity
of one of the body's natural anticoagulant molecules, antithrombin III
What physiologic action happens when the offending drug is administered
during an anaphylactic reaction. - ✔✔Mast cells liberate large doses of
histamine.
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, What are two systemic psoriasis medications? - ✔✔Photo-therapy and
topical corticosteroids
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with
uncomplicated stage I hypertension? - ✔✔Thiazide diuretics
What is the effect of cardiac glycosides? - ✔✔Digitalis glycosides have a
negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac muscle cells.
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication? - ✔✔Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for
available beta-receptor sites? - ✔✔Atenolol (Tenormin)
What type of action does nitrates have on the body? - ✔✔Reduction in
systemic venous tone.
What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL)
for patients with known coronary artery disease? - ✔✔100mg/dl or less.
What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs? - ✔✔Depressing
phase 4 depolarization and lengthening phases 1 and 2 repolarization.
Which drug therapy should be used to lower the serum concentration of
thyroid hormones and re-establish eumetabolic state in a patient with
Graves' disease? - ✔✔Anti-thyroid drugs.
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