AAMI PATHOLOGY EVALUATION EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔chronic leukemia - ✔✔More fully developed cells are the hallmark of _____
leukemia.
✔✔Lymphocytic or myelogenous - ✔✔Depending on the specific white blood cell line
affected, the leukemia is classified as...
✔✔Swollen lymph nodes
fever
weight loss
fatigue
joint pain
tendency to hemorrhage
anemia
compromised immune system - ✔✔symptoms of leukemia include:
✔✔polycythemia Vera (primary polycythemia) - ✔✔Opposite meaning to anemia.
Occurs most often in older adults.
✔✔polycythemia Vera (primary polycythemia) - ✔✔Characterized by a marked increase
in RBC, platelets, WBC and overall blood volume.
No cure- treatment focuses on decreasing the number of blood cells.
✔✔Erythrocytosis - ✔✔Too many red blood cells.
Not a disease, but is usually part of some other problem.
✔✔Erythrocytosis - ✔✔Is an increase in the number of circulating RBC
✔✔Hemophilia and Thrombocytopenia - ✔✔Bleeding disorders examples:
✔✔Hemophilia - ✔✔A hereditary blood disease characterized by inability to clot
normally.
Generally affects only males.
Transmitted by females (sex-linked usually on X chromosomes)
Prolonged severe bleeding even with minor trauma
✔✔Thrombocytopenia - ✔✔Deficiency in the number of platelets or thrombocytes.
Comes a tendency to bruise.
Usually secondary to various types of leukemia and certain anemias, chicken pox,
radiation exposure and drug sensitivity.
✔✔Purpura - ✔✔Spontaneous hemorrhage in the skin or mucous membrane.
, Occur in purplish patches.
Larger than petechiae.
✔✔Heredity
Obesity
Diabetes
Elevated cholesterol levels
smoking
substance abuse
stress
diet - ✔✔Predisposing factors to heart disease.
✔✔dilation - ✔✔increase in the size of the heart or a heart chamber, due to a stretching
of the muscle fibers.
✔✔hypertrophy - ✔✔increase in the size of the heart due to an increase in the size of
the individual cardiac muscles fibers.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔an enlargement of the heart caused by stretching and thinning
of the muscle tissues on the walls of the heart.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔The heart chambers are filled with more blood than usual and
do not empty fully.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔Is associated with acute pulmonary embolism and heart failure.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔an increase in the size of the heart due to increased
demands placed on it.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔does not effect both sides equally; because of their thin
walls, the aorta do not _____ to the extent of the ventricles.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔there is a limit to the ______ that the heart may undergo
and when the limit is passed, the result is heart failure.
✔✔Obstruction to the flow of blood through the peripheral blood vessels - ✔✔cause of
hypertrophy
✔✔diseased conditions involving the blood vessels and valves of the heart. - ✔✔cause
of hypertrophy
✔✔inflammatory and degenerative changes in the heart muscles. - ✔✔cause of
hypertrophy
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔chronic leukemia - ✔✔More fully developed cells are the hallmark of _____
leukemia.
✔✔Lymphocytic or myelogenous - ✔✔Depending on the specific white blood cell line
affected, the leukemia is classified as...
✔✔Swollen lymph nodes
fever
weight loss
fatigue
joint pain
tendency to hemorrhage
anemia
compromised immune system - ✔✔symptoms of leukemia include:
✔✔polycythemia Vera (primary polycythemia) - ✔✔Opposite meaning to anemia.
Occurs most often in older adults.
✔✔polycythemia Vera (primary polycythemia) - ✔✔Characterized by a marked increase
in RBC, platelets, WBC and overall blood volume.
No cure- treatment focuses on decreasing the number of blood cells.
✔✔Erythrocytosis - ✔✔Too many red blood cells.
Not a disease, but is usually part of some other problem.
✔✔Erythrocytosis - ✔✔Is an increase in the number of circulating RBC
✔✔Hemophilia and Thrombocytopenia - ✔✔Bleeding disorders examples:
✔✔Hemophilia - ✔✔A hereditary blood disease characterized by inability to clot
normally.
Generally affects only males.
Transmitted by females (sex-linked usually on X chromosomes)
Prolonged severe bleeding even with minor trauma
✔✔Thrombocytopenia - ✔✔Deficiency in the number of platelets or thrombocytes.
Comes a tendency to bruise.
Usually secondary to various types of leukemia and certain anemias, chicken pox,
radiation exposure and drug sensitivity.
✔✔Purpura - ✔✔Spontaneous hemorrhage in the skin or mucous membrane.
, Occur in purplish patches.
Larger than petechiae.
✔✔Heredity
Obesity
Diabetes
Elevated cholesterol levels
smoking
substance abuse
stress
diet - ✔✔Predisposing factors to heart disease.
✔✔dilation - ✔✔increase in the size of the heart or a heart chamber, due to a stretching
of the muscle fibers.
✔✔hypertrophy - ✔✔increase in the size of the heart due to an increase in the size of
the individual cardiac muscles fibers.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔an enlargement of the heart caused by stretching and thinning
of the muscle tissues on the walls of the heart.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔The heart chambers are filled with more blood than usual and
do not empty fully.
✔✔cardiac dilation - ✔✔Is associated with acute pulmonary embolism and heart failure.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔an increase in the size of the heart due to increased
demands placed on it.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔does not effect both sides equally; because of their thin
walls, the aorta do not _____ to the extent of the ventricles.
✔✔Cardiac hypertrophy - ✔✔there is a limit to the ______ that the heart may undergo
and when the limit is passed, the result is heart failure.
✔✔Obstruction to the flow of blood through the peripheral blood vessels - ✔✔cause of
hypertrophy
✔✔diseased conditions involving the blood vessels and valves of the heart. - ✔✔cause
of hypertrophy
✔✔inflammatory and degenerative changes in the heart muscles. - ✔✔cause of
hypertrophy
