UTA Patho Final UPDATED ACTUAL
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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
Metaplasia - CORRECT ANSWER - Reversible replacement of one differentiated cell
type with another
Kwashiorkor - CORRECT ANSWER - protein malnutrition from diet
S/S swollen belly in children, frequent infection
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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
Metaplasia - CORRECT ANSWER - Reversible replacement of one differentiated cell
type with another
Kwashiorkor - CORRECT ANSWER - protein malnutrition from diet
S/S swollen belly in children, frequent infection
