Pathophysiology Exam 2 Practice Questions With 100% Correct Answers A+ SCORED (TOP TAKEN)
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Pathophysiology
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Pathophysiology
A 51-year-old male is at the health clinic for an annual physical exam. After walking from the car to the clinic, he developed substernal pain. He also reported discomfort in his left shoulder and his jaw, lasting 2-3 minutes and then subsiding with rest. He indicates that this has occurred frequen...
Pathophysiology Exam 2 Practice Questions With 100%
Correct Answers A+ SCORED (TOP TAKEN)
When a nurse cares for a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the nurse remembers this
disease is an example of:
a. autoimmunity.
b. alloimmunity.
c. homoimmunity.
d. alleimmunity. - ✔✔✔ - A Autoimmunity
A 10-year-old male is stung by a bee while playing in the yard. He begins itching and develops pain,
swelling, redness, and respiratory difficulties. He is suffering from:
a. immunodeficiency.
b. autoimmunity.
c. anaphylaxis.
d. tissue-specific hypersensitivity. - ✔✔✔ - C. Anaphylaxis
A 30-year-old female complains of fatigue, arthritis, rash, and changes in urine color. Laboratory
testing reveals anemia, lymphopenia, and kidney inflammation. Assuming a diagnosis of SLE, which
of the following is also likely to be present?
a. Anti-LE antibodies
b. Autoantibodies
c. Antiherpes antibodies
d. Anti-CMV antibodies - ✔✔✔ - B. Autoantibodies
A 40-year-old female is diagnosed with SLE. Which of the following findings would be considered a
symptom of this disease?
,a. Gastrointestinal ulcers
b. Decreased glomerular filtration rate
c. Rash on trunk and extremities
d. Photosensitivity - ✔✔✔ - D. Photosensitivity
A 30-year-old female is diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Which symptoms are a
result of a type II hypersensitivity? (Select all that apply.)
a. Anemia
b. Seizures
c. Lymphopenia
d. Facial rash
e. Photosensitivity - ✔✔✔ - A. Anemia
C. Lymphopenia
A person is given an attenuated antigen as a vaccine. When the person asks what was given in the
vaccine, how should the nurse respond? The antigen is:
a. alive, but less infectious.
b. mutated, but highly infectious.
c. normal, but not infectious.
d. inactive, but infectious. - ✔✔✔ - A. Alive, but less infectious
A 22 year old was recently diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Which
decreased lab finding would be expected to accompany this virus?
a. CD4+ T-helper
b. CD8 T-helper
c. CDC cells
d. CDC10 cells - ✔✔✔ - A. CD4+T-Helper
, Which of the following is a characteristic of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes
AIDS?
a. HIV only infects B cells.
b. HIV is a retrovirus.
c. Infection does not require a host cell receptor.
d. After infection, cell death is immediate. - ✔✔✔ - B. HIV is a retrovirus
A 30-year-old male was diagnosed with HIV. Which of the following treatments would be most
effective?
a. Reverse transcriptase inhibitors
b. Protease inhibitors
c. Entrance inhibitors
d. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) - ✔✔✔ - D. Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)
A patient has a tissue growth that was diagnosed as cancer. Which of the following terms best
describes this growth?
a. Malignant tumor
b. Lipoma
c. Meningioma
d. Hypertrophy - ✔✔✔ - A. Malignant Tumor
An oncologist is discussing when a cancer cell loses differentiation. Which of the following is the
oncologist describing?
a. Autonomy
b. Anaplasia
c. Pleomorphic
d. Metastasis - ✔✔✔ - B. Anaplasia
A 30-year-old female is diagnosed with cancer. Testing reveals that the cancer cells have spread to
local lymph nodes. A nurse realizes this cancer would be documented as stage:
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