D027 patho pharm wgu test with Questions and
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Red Yeast - ✔✔What should be avoided when taking a -statin medication because it can
impact LDL cholesterol?
Muscle pain, rhabdomyolysis, and kidney failure - ✔✔What is a side effect of a statin drug?
Acute pericarditis - ✔✔Lupus is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that is known to cause
what?
Prednisone and methylprednisone - ✔✔What meds are given to treat Lupus?
Doppler ultrasound - ✔✔What is the initial diagnostic test for blood clots in the legs?
Adolsterone - ✔✔Helps to control sodium concentrations; produced by adrenal glands
Irritant contact dermatitis - ✔✔Prolonged, superficial skin exposure to foreign irritant
furuncle - ✔✔suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
Pancreas - ✔✔Cystic fibrosis affects what organ that causes secretion in the lungs
Klinefelter syndrome - ✔✔A chromosomal disorder in which males have an extra X
chromosome, making them XXY instead of XY.
High pitched voice, sparse body hair, small testes, and gynecomastia
,Turner Syndrome - ✔✔A chromosomal disorder in females in which either an X chromosome
is missing, making the person XO instead of XX, or part of one X chromosome is deleted.
Short stature, webbed neck, and a shield like chest
Ferrous Sulfate - ✔✔Contraindicated in beta thalassemia
Epogen and blood transfusion - ✔✔What is the treatment for beta thalassemia
Levodopa and Carbidopa (Sinement) - ✔✔Meds for Parkinson's
plasma drug levels - ✔✔Gold standard for determining the dosing of an anti epileptic drug
Glucocorticoids - ✔✔This drug in combo with other agents is used to treat lymphoid tissue
(leukemia)
Suppresses bone creation, take calcium and vitamin D - ✔✔What is a side effect of
glucocorticoids and what needs to be taken for supplementation?
BNP
>100 - ✔✔What is the gold standard lab test for diagnosing CHF
What is considered heart failure?
Give Nitro first, take sublingual, acts within 5 min, max does of 3 doses - ✔✔What is the first
choice med for stable angina
, 55-60% ejection fraction - ✔✔Normal EF
EF of 50% - ✔✔Preserved EF
Ischemic heart disease - ✔✔Heart disease that is worse with exertion
Start initial dose at half to monitor the effects - ✔✔How would you start warfarin?
Avoid beta blockers and calcium channel blockers - ✔✔What is avoided with patients with
asthma?
Albuterol - ✔✔What is the short acting beta 2 agonist medication for patients with asthma?
Emphysema - ✔✔What is the permanent enlargement of gas-exchange airways
viral croup - ✔✔laryngotracheobronchitis
acromegaly - ✔✔Endocrine disorder that has an enlargement of the extremities, overbite,
buffalo hump; overproduction of growth hormone produced
Addison's disease - ✔✔Decreased glucocorticoid due to an autoimmune destruction of
adrenal cortex
Cushing Syndrome - ✔✔excess cortisol
Increased Von Willebrand factor - ✔✔Cushing syndrome with leg paint due to DVT means
what?
Answers| Latest Update | Verified Answers
Red Yeast - ✔✔What should be avoided when taking a -statin medication because it can
impact LDL cholesterol?
Muscle pain, rhabdomyolysis, and kidney failure - ✔✔What is a side effect of a statin drug?
Acute pericarditis - ✔✔Lupus is an inflammatory autoimmune disease that is known to cause
what?
Prednisone and methylprednisone - ✔✔What meds are given to treat Lupus?
Doppler ultrasound - ✔✔What is the initial diagnostic test for blood clots in the legs?
Adolsterone - ✔✔Helps to control sodium concentrations; produced by adrenal glands
Irritant contact dermatitis - ✔✔Prolonged, superficial skin exposure to foreign irritant
furuncle - ✔✔suppurative inflammatory skin lesion due to infected hair follicle
Pancreas - ✔✔Cystic fibrosis affects what organ that causes secretion in the lungs
Klinefelter syndrome - ✔✔A chromosomal disorder in which males have an extra X
chromosome, making them XXY instead of XY.
High pitched voice, sparse body hair, small testes, and gynecomastia
,Turner Syndrome - ✔✔A chromosomal disorder in females in which either an X chromosome
is missing, making the person XO instead of XX, or part of one X chromosome is deleted.
Short stature, webbed neck, and a shield like chest
Ferrous Sulfate - ✔✔Contraindicated in beta thalassemia
Epogen and blood transfusion - ✔✔What is the treatment for beta thalassemia
Levodopa and Carbidopa (Sinement) - ✔✔Meds for Parkinson's
plasma drug levels - ✔✔Gold standard for determining the dosing of an anti epileptic drug
Glucocorticoids - ✔✔This drug in combo with other agents is used to treat lymphoid tissue
(leukemia)
Suppresses bone creation, take calcium and vitamin D - ✔✔What is a side effect of
glucocorticoids and what needs to be taken for supplementation?
BNP
>100 - ✔✔What is the gold standard lab test for diagnosing CHF
What is considered heart failure?
Give Nitro first, take sublingual, acts within 5 min, max does of 3 doses - ✔✔What is the first
choice med for stable angina
, 55-60% ejection fraction - ✔✔Normal EF
EF of 50% - ✔✔Preserved EF
Ischemic heart disease - ✔✔Heart disease that is worse with exertion
Start initial dose at half to monitor the effects - ✔✔How would you start warfarin?
Avoid beta blockers and calcium channel blockers - ✔✔What is avoided with patients with
asthma?
Albuterol - ✔✔What is the short acting beta 2 agonist medication for patients with asthma?
Emphysema - ✔✔What is the permanent enlargement of gas-exchange airways
viral croup - ✔✔laryngotracheobronchitis
acromegaly - ✔✔Endocrine disorder that has an enlargement of the extremities, overbite,
buffalo hump; overproduction of growth hormone produced
Addison's disease - ✔✔Decreased glucocorticoid due to an autoimmune destruction of
adrenal cortex
Cushing Syndrome - ✔✔excess cortisol
Increased Von Willebrand factor - ✔✔Cushing syndrome with leg paint due to DVT means
what?
