UTA Patho EXAM NEWEST 2025 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)|ALREADY
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Hyperplasia - Answers - ✔✔Increased multiplication of cells
Rheumatoid Arthritis VS. Osteoarthritis - Answers - ✔✔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 - Answers - ✔✔Thrush, Pneumoctstis
pnemonia (PCP), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Kaposi Sarcoma (Causes lesions)
What can cause bloody diarrhea? - Answers - ✔✔Dysentery, IBS, Crohn's
Lymohademopathy - Answers - ✔✔enlarged lymph nodes bc of infection or cancer
Hypersplenism - Answers - ✔✔overactive spleen-WBC, RBC, platelets get eaten
S/S anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia
Spleenomegaly - Answers - ✔✔enlargment of the spleen
causes: increased hemolysis of RBC
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) - Answers - ✔✔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 - Answers - ✔✔Blood cancer that causes an overproduction of RBC
making blood thick and sludgy treated by donating blood
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - Answers - ✔✔Caused by virchow's triad
S/S swelling, redness, warm
Virchow's Triad - Answers - ✔✔Venous stasis- Hypercoaguability- vascular wall injury
, Pulmonary Embolism - Answers - ✔✔S/S SOB bloody sputum, right heart backflow
Arterial insufficiency - Answers - ✔✔Plaque build up,hardening of walls
etiology: genetics, lack of exercise, diet, alcoholism, smoking
Peripheral Arterial disease (PAD) - Answers - ✔✔Narrowed blood vessels cause lack of
blood flow
S/S Pain, Paresthesia (prickly burning), Pallor (unhealthily pale)
Terratogenic influences on pregnant woman - Answers - ✔✔drugs, alcohol
Alternative name for Down syndrome - Answers - ✔✔Trisomy 21
3 single gene disorders - Answers - ✔✔autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant,
sex-linked
Carcinoma - Answers - ✔✔malignant epithelium (Skin cancer)
Dysplasia - Answers - ✔✔abnormal growth of cells, tissues, bone, or an organ
McCardle's disease - Answers - ✔✔a glycogen storage disease
S/S Muscle pain, weakness,cramps, exercise intolerance
Beriberi disease - Answers - ✔✔Lack of thiamine (B1)causing problems with Memory
and parasthesia
etiology: alcoholism, poor diet
S/S SOB, swollen legs, pain
Sickle cell anemia - Answers - ✔✔Autosomal recessive disease
mutates RBC C shaped
S/S SOB, fatigue, ischemia esp, in joints
Metaplasia - Answers - ✔✔Reversible replacement of one differentiated cell type with
another
Kwashiorkor - Answers - ✔✔protein malnutrition from diet
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)|ALREADY
GRADED A+ BRAND NEW
Hyperplasia - Answers - ✔✔Increased multiplication of cells
Rheumatoid Arthritis VS. Osteoarthritis - Answers - ✔✔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 - Answers - ✔✔Thrush, Pneumoctstis
pnemonia (PCP), Cytomegalovirus (CMV), Kaposi Sarcoma (Causes lesions)
What can cause bloody diarrhea? - Answers - ✔✔Dysentery, IBS, Crohn's
Lymohademopathy - Answers - ✔✔enlarged lymph nodes bc of infection or cancer
Hypersplenism - Answers - ✔✔overactive spleen-WBC, RBC, platelets get eaten
S/S anemia, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, pancytopenia
Spleenomegaly - Answers - ✔✔enlargment of the spleen
causes: increased hemolysis of RBC
Chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) - Answers - ✔✔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 - Answers - ✔✔Blood cancer that causes an overproduction of RBC
making blood thick and sludgy treated by donating blood
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) - Answers - ✔✔Caused by virchow's triad
S/S swelling, redness, warm
Virchow's Triad - Answers - ✔✔Venous stasis- Hypercoaguability- vascular wall injury
, Pulmonary Embolism - Answers - ✔✔S/S SOB bloody sputum, right heart backflow
Arterial insufficiency - Answers - ✔✔Plaque build up,hardening of walls
etiology: genetics, lack of exercise, diet, alcoholism, smoking
Peripheral Arterial disease (PAD) - Answers - ✔✔Narrowed blood vessels cause lack of
blood flow
S/S Pain, Paresthesia (prickly burning), Pallor (unhealthily pale)
Terratogenic influences on pregnant woman - Answers - ✔✔drugs, alcohol
Alternative name for Down syndrome - Answers - ✔✔Trisomy 21
3 single gene disorders - Answers - ✔✔autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant,
sex-linked
Carcinoma - Answers - ✔✔malignant epithelium (Skin cancer)
Dysplasia - Answers - ✔✔abnormal growth of cells, tissues, bone, or an organ
McCardle's disease - Answers - ✔✔a glycogen storage disease
S/S Muscle pain, weakness,cramps, exercise intolerance
Beriberi disease - Answers - ✔✔Lack of thiamine (B1)causing problems with Memory
and parasthesia
etiology: alcoholism, poor diet
S/S SOB, swollen legs, pain
Sickle cell anemia - Answers - ✔✔Autosomal recessive disease
mutates RBC C shaped
S/S SOB, fatigue, ischemia esp, in joints
Metaplasia - Answers - ✔✔Reversible replacement of one differentiated cell type with
another
Kwashiorkor - Answers - ✔✔protein malnutrition from diet
