NR571 Final Exam Questions AND Correct Answers
A positive IgM anti-HBc indicates? - ✔✔Acute infection
Alk Phos can be elevated with pregnancy, bone disease or
growing children
T/f - ✔✔True
Alk phos will be severely elevated in hepatobiliary disease
T/f - ✔✔False. Although ALP will be elevated in hepatobiliary
disease, it is severely elevated in biliary disease only.
Ascites, Caput Medusa, palmar erythema, Dupuytren's
contracture are all physical findings of what? - ✔✔Cirrhosis
AST is not very specific for liver disease except in... -
✔✔ETOH
Causes of elevated direct bilirubin levels are due to the liver
T/f - ✔✔True. Direct bilirubin is conjugated by the liver
having been bound with glucoronic acid and made water
soluble for excretion
, Causes of high indirect bilirubin are due to the liver
T/f - ✔✔False. Indirect bilirubin is unconjugated. Sources of
elevated indirect bili are due to RBC destruction.
Child PUGH score is used to predict surgical mortality, overall
mortality and indication for transplant
T/f - ✔✔True. Patients are classes as A, B or C with transplant
evaluation indicated for those in class B and extremely high
period mortality in class C
Esophageal rupture***, pancreatic and malignant effusions
are indicated when PF shows what? - ✔✔Amylase
Gilbert's syndrome is an inherited deficiency in the enzymes
for ________________ without elevations in other lab values
- ✔✔Bilirubin
Hemolysis
Gilbert's syndrome
Drugs
Hepatitis
Chemotherapy
Neonatal
Obstructive cholecystokinin
A positive IgM anti-HBc indicates? - ✔✔Acute infection
Alk Phos can be elevated with pregnancy, bone disease or
growing children
T/f - ✔✔True
Alk phos will be severely elevated in hepatobiliary disease
T/f - ✔✔False. Although ALP will be elevated in hepatobiliary
disease, it is severely elevated in biliary disease only.
Ascites, Caput Medusa, palmar erythema, Dupuytren's
contracture are all physical findings of what? - ✔✔Cirrhosis
AST is not very specific for liver disease except in... -
✔✔ETOH
Causes of elevated direct bilirubin levels are due to the liver
T/f - ✔✔True. Direct bilirubin is conjugated by the liver
having been bound with glucoronic acid and made water
soluble for excretion
, Causes of high indirect bilirubin are due to the liver
T/f - ✔✔False. Indirect bilirubin is unconjugated. Sources of
elevated indirect bili are due to RBC destruction.
Child PUGH score is used to predict surgical mortality, overall
mortality and indication for transplant
T/f - ✔✔True. Patients are classes as A, B or C with transplant
evaluation indicated for those in class B and extremely high
period mortality in class C
Esophageal rupture***, pancreatic and malignant effusions
are indicated when PF shows what? - ✔✔Amylase
Gilbert's syndrome is an inherited deficiency in the enzymes
for ________________ without elevations in other lab values
- ✔✔Bilirubin
Hemolysis
Gilbert's syndrome
Drugs
Hepatitis
Chemotherapy
Neonatal
Obstructive cholecystokinin
