CCTN Exam Study Questions and Answers Verified
100% Correct
The most common disease requiring a pancreas transplant?
Brittle Type 1 diabetes
Pancreas recipients who have no signs of diabetic nephropathy must undergo..
The same tests as a kidney recipient
The most common diseases requiring a liver transplant (6)
Alcoholism with liver changes
Cholestastis
Chronic hepatitis
Genetic diseases
Hepatocellular carcinoma less than 5 cm w cirrhosis
Metabolic disease
What symptoms are seen in pancreas/liver transplant patients?
Coagulopathy, hepatic encephalopathy, esophageal varices with bleeding, spontaneous
bacterial peritonitis, refractory ascites no responsive to diuretics
Chronic Hepatitis causes
Hep B, Hep C, Hep D (no alcohol allowed as factor)
Autoimmune diseases (porphyria)
Iatrogenic dz from Macrobid, Aldomet, Dopamet, Novomedopa
Steatohepatitis (fatty inflammation of liver) causes
Alcohol,
Obesity,
Iatrogenic dz from Cordarone
, Vascular Disease causes
Chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome-obstruction of the hepatic vein
Inborn errors of metabolism causes
Hemochromatosis (too much stored iron)
Alpha 1 Antitrypsin deficiency (lung disease)
Wilson's disease (copper retention)
Glycogen storage disease Type I and II
Cholestasis definition
A condition where the bile can't flow from liver to duodenum.
Intrahepatic bile ducts diseases include
Biliary atresia
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Iatrogenic drug induced (chlorpromazine/tolbutamide)
Familial cholestasis (Byler's syndrome and arteriohepatic dysplasia)
Cystic Fibrosis (sticky mucus can
Extrahepatic bile duct disease include
Primary Sclerosing cholangitis (chronic liver dz unknown etiology)
Congenital abnormalities
Homozygous hypercholesterolemia (very rare dz)
Primary Hyperoxaluria Type I (salt that binds w Ca)
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (genetic-protein mutation)
Developmental abnormalities
Polycystic liver disease (causes massive hepatomegaly)
Caroli's disease (rare-dilation of biliary tree)
Main causes of end stage renal disease
100% Correct
The most common disease requiring a pancreas transplant?
Brittle Type 1 diabetes
Pancreas recipients who have no signs of diabetic nephropathy must undergo..
The same tests as a kidney recipient
The most common diseases requiring a liver transplant (6)
Alcoholism with liver changes
Cholestastis
Chronic hepatitis
Genetic diseases
Hepatocellular carcinoma less than 5 cm w cirrhosis
Metabolic disease
What symptoms are seen in pancreas/liver transplant patients?
Coagulopathy, hepatic encephalopathy, esophageal varices with bleeding, spontaneous
bacterial peritonitis, refractory ascites no responsive to diuretics
Chronic Hepatitis causes
Hep B, Hep C, Hep D (no alcohol allowed as factor)
Autoimmune diseases (porphyria)
Iatrogenic dz from Macrobid, Aldomet, Dopamet, Novomedopa
Steatohepatitis (fatty inflammation of liver) causes
Alcohol,
Obesity,
Iatrogenic dz from Cordarone
, Vascular Disease causes
Chronic Budd-Chiari syndrome-obstruction of the hepatic vein
Inborn errors of metabolism causes
Hemochromatosis (too much stored iron)
Alpha 1 Antitrypsin deficiency (lung disease)
Wilson's disease (copper retention)
Glycogen storage disease Type I and II
Cholestasis definition
A condition where the bile can't flow from liver to duodenum.
Intrahepatic bile ducts diseases include
Biliary atresia
Primary biliary cirrhosis
Iatrogenic drug induced (chlorpromazine/tolbutamide)
Familial cholestasis (Byler's syndrome and arteriohepatic dysplasia)
Cystic Fibrosis (sticky mucus can
Extrahepatic bile duct disease include
Primary Sclerosing cholangitis (chronic liver dz unknown etiology)
Congenital abnormalities
Homozygous hypercholesterolemia (very rare dz)
Primary Hyperoxaluria Type I (salt that binds w Ca)
Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (genetic-protein mutation)
Developmental abnormalities
Polycystic liver disease (causes massive hepatomegaly)
Caroli's disease (rare-dilation of biliary tree)
Main causes of end stage renal disease
