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NSG 530 EXAM 2 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY-WILKES NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
What is the most common valve disease that is often seen in
young women? - ANSWER-Mitral valve prolapse
You examine a patient and notice a widened pulse pressure and
throbbing peripheral pulses. What is the cause of these findings?
- ANSWER-Aortic regurgitation
Widened pulse pressure d/t increased stroke volume and diastolic
backflow
Large stroke volume causes prominent carotid pulsation +
bounding peripheral pulses (Corrigan pulse)
What do elevated trop levels indicate for both diagnostic purposes
and what is taking place at the cellular level to cause an increase
in this lab value? - ANSWER-Diagnostic: MI
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MI caused by prolonged, unrelieved ischemia that interrupts blood
supply to the myocardium -> after 20 min of MI -> irreversible
hypoxic injury -> cellular death and tissue necrosis
Myocyte injury: cardiac muscle cells contain trop in their
cytoplasm -> when damaged/ die -> cell membranes rupture ->
trop released into bloodstream
Cardiac injury/ cardiac muscle damage
You are reviewing the pathology and autopsy report on a patient
that died from MI. What would you expect to see? - ANSWER-An
aggregation of platelets w. atherosclerotic coronary artery
As you examine a patient with a long hx of peripheral vascular
disease, you see persistent edema in the lower extremities and
hyperpigmentation. What is the cause of the hyperpigmentation? -
ANSWER-Chronic venous insufficiency
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A genetically determined hypersensitivity to common
environmental allergens causes _______ reactions, such as: -
ANSWER-atopic; urticaria.
Leukemia is most common in? - ANSWER-Children
PVD includes: - ANSWER-Buerger disease and Raynaud
phenomenon
Impairs blood flow from left ventricle to aorta: - ANSWER-aortic
stenosis
Valve opening constricted and narrowed: - ANSWER-stenosis.
Blood moves backward into the chamber from where it came
from: - ANSWER-regurgitation
A patient has a loud holosystolic murmur that radiates to the back
and axilla. Which valvular abnormality is this describing? -
ANSWER-Mitral regurgitation
NSG 530 EXAM 2 ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY-WILKES NEWEST
2025/2026 ACTUAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (100% VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+| ||PROFESSOR VERIFIED||
What is the most common valve disease that is often seen in
young women? - ANSWER-Mitral valve prolapse
You examine a patient and notice a widened pulse pressure and
throbbing peripheral pulses. What is the cause of these findings?
- ANSWER-Aortic regurgitation
Widened pulse pressure d/t increased stroke volume and diastolic
backflow
Large stroke volume causes prominent carotid pulsation +
bounding peripheral pulses (Corrigan pulse)
What do elevated trop levels indicate for both diagnostic purposes
and what is taking place at the cellular level to cause an increase
in this lab value? - ANSWER-Diagnostic: MI
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MI caused by prolonged, unrelieved ischemia that interrupts blood
supply to the myocardium -> after 20 min of MI -> irreversible
hypoxic injury -> cellular death and tissue necrosis
Myocyte injury: cardiac muscle cells contain trop in their
cytoplasm -> when damaged/ die -> cell membranes rupture ->
trop released into bloodstream
Cardiac injury/ cardiac muscle damage
You are reviewing the pathology and autopsy report on a patient
that died from MI. What would you expect to see? - ANSWER-An
aggregation of platelets w. atherosclerotic coronary artery
As you examine a patient with a long hx of peripheral vascular
disease, you see persistent edema in the lower extremities and
hyperpigmentation. What is the cause of the hyperpigmentation? -
ANSWER-Chronic venous insufficiency
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A genetically determined hypersensitivity to common
environmental allergens causes _______ reactions, such as: -
ANSWER-atopic; urticaria.
Leukemia is most common in? - ANSWER-Children
PVD includes: - ANSWER-Buerger disease and Raynaud
phenomenon
Impairs blood flow from left ventricle to aorta: - ANSWER-aortic
stenosis
Valve opening constricted and narrowed: - ANSWER-stenosis.
Blood moves backward into the chamber from where it came
from: - ANSWER-regurgitation
A patient has a loud holosystolic murmur that radiates to the back
and axilla. Which valvular abnormality is this describing? -
ANSWER-Mitral regurgitation
