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Exam 1 (NURS 324) | Answered with complete solutions Your patient presents with tachycardia, exertional dyspnea, fatigue, bounding pulses, and postural dizziness. What is your diagnosis? Anemia Define anemia a deficiency in the blood's ability to carry oxygen What are the causes of anemia? eryth...

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NURS 324 Exam 1


Your patient presents with tachycardia, exertional dyspnea, fatigue, bounding pulses,
and postural dizziness. What is your diagnosis?
Anemia

Define anemia
a deficiency in the blood's ability to carry oxygen

What are the causes of anemia?
erythrocyte loss (bleeding), decreased erythrocyte production, or hemolysis

Your patient presents with mouth sores, joint pain, renal damage, pleuritis, and
photosensitivity rash. What is your diagnosis?
Lupus

Define lupus
a chronic inflammatory condition where immune complexes damage different bodily
tissues and systems

Your patient presents with spastic ataxia, memory loss, peripheral neuropathy,
emotional instability, jaundice, and magenta burning tongue. What is your diagnosis?
pernicious anemia

Define pernicious anemia
a deficiency in vitamin B12 due to a lack of intrinsic absorption factor

Your patient presents with anemia, hemolysis, acute pain episodes, swelling of hands
and feet, and frequent infections. What is your diagnosis?
sickle cell anemia

Define sickle cell anemia
inward, elongated red blood cells that are stiff and sticky --> keeps them from passing
through blood vessels smoothly

Your patient presents with splenomegaly, heptomegaly, bloodshot eyes, thick blood,
heavy menstrual cycle, and reddened palms and mucous membranes. What is your
diagnosis?
polycythemia vera

Define polycythemia vera
too many red blood cells due to a gene mutation

, Your patient presents with fatigue, sore throat, swollen glands, and high fever. What is
your diagnosis?
Mononucleosis

Define mononucleosis
elevated monocytes caused by Epstein-Barr Virus

Your patient presents with painless enlargement of the cervical and axillary lymph
nodes, weight loss, night sweats, abdominal and chest pain, and shortness of breath.
What is your diagnosis?
non-hodgkin's lymphoma

Define non-hodgkin's lymphoma
lymphoma lacking Reed-Sternberg cells

Your patient presents with dysphagia, brittle and koilonychia-shaped nails, PICA,
beeturia, and chelitis. What is your diagnosis?
iron-deficiency anemia

Iron-deficiency anemia is the "most common..."?
dietary disorder and cause of anemia

Your patient presents with jaundice, splenomegaly, heptomegaly, dark urine, weakness,
headache, and shortness of breath. What is your diagnosis?
hemolytic anemia

Define hemolytic anemia
decreased hemoglobin due to something destroying the red blood cells --> bone marrow
can't keep up with destruction

Your patient presents with back pain, bone pain, pathologic fractures, high serum
protein levels, and renal failure. What is your diagnosis?
multiple myeloma

Define multiple myeloma
malignant neoplasm of plasma cells or B lymphocytes, causing abnormal growth in
bone marrow and increased bone pain and fractures

Your patient presents with dark urine, delayed growth and development, excessive
fatigue, yellow or pale skin, and facial bone deformities. What is your diagnosis?
Thalassemia

Define thalassemia
fragile and thin red blood cells that form defective hemoglobin

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