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NURS 5315 UTA et Exam 1: Concept and
Clinical Complication 2024/2025 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured


Action Potential: Hypokalemia leads to what complications - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Potassium leaves the cell leaving behind negative anions, cell

hyperpolarizes making the cell more negative and therefore less excitable



CC: Weakness, Smooth Muscle atony, parathesias (pins and needles),

Cardiac dysrythmias

Action Potential: Hyperkalemia lead to what complications - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Increased potassium will come into the cell and make it more positive,

depolarization will occur taking the RMP closer to the Threshold potential.

This makes cells more excitable.



CC: Peak T waves, Widening QRS Complex, paralysis, paresthesia,

weakness, cardiac dysrhythmia




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,Action Potential: Hypercalcemia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔High calcium (Ca2+)

decreases the cells permeability to Na+ ions. Cell becomes less positive.

Hyper polarized and less excitable



CC: Weakness, hyporeflexia, fatigue, lethargy, confusion, encephalopathy,

Shorted QT segment, Depressed widened T waves

Action Potential: Hypocalcemia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Less Calcium leads to

more per i ability of Na+ ions into the cell. The cell becomes more positive

and depolarizes. Closed to threshold potential means more excitable cells.



CC: Tetany (involuntary contraction of muscle), hyperreflexia, circumoral

paresthesia, seizures, dysrythmias

Atrophy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔CC: Decreased muscle size due to lack of

exercise or bed ridden, reduced thymus in children as they grow

Hypertrophy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic: Increased muscle size when

exercising

Pathologic: cardiomegaly in HTN, kidney growth when one kidney is

removed




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, Hyperplasia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Physiologic: Liver regeneration after

resection, uterine and mammary gland enlargement in pregnancy



Pathologic: Endometrial lining in response to estrogen (Endometrial

Cancer)

Metaplasia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pathologic: Chronic Smokers Columnar cells

to Squamous cells, Barrett Esophagus (Normal squamous epithelial cells

replaced by columnar cells) in response to heart burn, GERD

Dysplasia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Dysplastic cells of the cervix during a

papsmear, pre cancerous

Sickle Cell Anemia can cause what type of cell injury? - 🧠ANSWER

✔✔Hypoxic injury

A decrease in the production of red blood cells happens with what type of

conditions? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Iron Deficiency Anemia

Leukemia

Hypoxic injury of the muscle cells including the heart will release which

enzyme? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Creatinine Kinase




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