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Advanced Pharmacology Final Exam Review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers (100% Correct Answers) /Already
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Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on
nitroglycerin therapy?
Ans: To inhibit the development of tolerance
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Ans: Hyperthroidism
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low
TSH level with?
Ans: Propanolol (Inderal)
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Ans: Aldosterone antagonist
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Ans: 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.
Ans: Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Ans: Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with
uncomplicated stage I hypertension?
Ans: Thiazide diuretics
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What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Ans: Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac
muscle cells.
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication?
Ans: Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for
available beta-receptor sites?
Ans: Atenolol (Tenormin)
What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Ans: Reduction in systemic venous tone.
What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL)
for patients with known coronary artery disease?
Ans: 100mg/dl or less.
What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs?
Ans: 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?
Ans: Anti-thyroid drugs.
Which type of diuretic would be used for a stage I hypertension in a patient
with renal insufficiency?
Ans: Loop diuretic.
Approved By:
vPretest - Stuvia US
Advanced Pharmacology Final Exam Review Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers (100% Correct Answers) /Already
Graded A+
Why are nitrate-free periods every 24 hours necessary for the patient on
nitroglycerin therapy?
Ans: To inhibit the development of tolerance
What does a low level of thyroid-stimulating hormone indicate?
Ans: Hyperthroidism
What would be the best option to treat a newly diagnosed patient with a low
TSH level with?
Ans: Propanolol (Inderal)
Spironoaldactone (Aldactone) has what mechanism of action (MOA)?
Ans: Aldosterone antagonist
Heparin exerts its therapeutic action by what?
Ans: 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.
Ans: Mast cells liberate large doses of histamine.
What are two systemic psoriasis medications?
Ans: Photo-therapy and topical corticosteroids
What is the first choice of drug therapy for the majority of patients with
uncomplicated stage I hypertension?
Ans: Thiazide diuretics
Approved By:
vPretest - Stuvia US
, 2
What is the effect of cardiac glycosides?
Ans: Digitalis glycosides have a negative chronotropic effect on the cardiac
muscle cells.
Amenorrhea is the most common side effect of which birth control
medication?
Ans: Medroxyprogesterone (Depo-Provera)
What is an anti-hypertensive agent which competes with epinephrine for
available beta-receptor sites?
Ans: Atenolol (Tenormin)
What type of action does nitrates have on the body?
Ans: Reduction in systemic venous tone.
What is the recommended level of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL)
for patients with known coronary artery disease?
Ans: 100mg/dl or less.
What is the MOA of group IV anti-dysrhythmia drugs?
Ans: 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?
Ans: Anti-thyroid drugs.
Which type of diuretic would be used for a stage I hypertension in a patient
with renal insufficiency?
Ans: Loop diuretic.
Approved By:
vPretest - Stuvia US
