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NUR 2063 Pathophysiology Rasmussen

1. What causes rigid abdomen in peritonitis?
Answer
inflammation and abdominal mus- cle spasm

2. What disorder results in mechanical bowel obstruction?
Answer
Intussection

3. What is the cause of a hiatal hernia?
Answer
weakness of the diaphragmatic muscle allows part of the stomach to poke through

4. What is the cause of diarrhea with antibiotic ingestion?
Answer
The balance of "good" bacteria in the gut is disrupted

5. What diseases cause H. pylori?

Answer
ingestion of contaminated products or contact with body fluids from an infected individual

6. What diseases does H. pylori cause?
Answer
gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, duodenal ulcers, duodinitis, various stomach cancers and
duodenal cancers

7. What are the inflammatory bowel diseases?
Answer
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis

8. What causes pancreatitis?

,Answer
Alcoholism and gallstones (70% of all cases) Drug use

Biliary Tract Disease Trauma
Infection

9. Define intussusception
Answer
The proximal segment of the intestine telescoping into the distal segment and pulling the
mesentery with it

10. What causes heartburn?
Answer
acid refluxing back into the esophagus

11. What is fecal impaction?
Answer
prolonged retention or an accumulation of fecal material that forms a hardened mass in the
rectum

12. mechanical bowel obstruction
Answer
Refers to a bowel obstruction that occurs as a result of blockage of the bowel lumen

13. what kind of bowel obstruction would fecal impaction be considered?
Answer
me- chanical

14. How is Hepatitis A transmitted?
Answer
Fecal-oral route - usually through contami- nated food.

15. How is hepatitis B transmitted?
Answer
Through body fluids such as blood, sexual fluids, and saliva

, 16. How is hepatitis C transmitted?
Answer
Through body fluids, primarily blood.

17. How is hepatitis E transmitted?
Answer
fecal-oral route

18. What is the cause of cleft lip and palate?
Answer
Failure of the facial prominences to fuse

multifactorial in origin—that is, they involve a combination of environmental and hereditary
factors. Such defects have been associated with genetic mutations, maternal diabetes, drugs (e.g.,
anticonvulsants), toxins, viruses, vitamin deficiencies

(e.g., folate), alcohol, and cigarette smoking. Having one child with an oral cleft increases the
risk of having a second child with this condition.

19. What are the clinical manifestations of appendicitis?
Answer
vary significantly in severity, from asymptomatic to sudden and severe. The first symptom is
often pain near the umbilicus. As swelling increases, the pain tends to move to the lower

right quadrant of the abdomen (McBurney point). The pain gradually intensifies over
approximately 12-24 hours. It is often aggravated by movement, so patients tend to guard their
abdomen.

20. What is GERD?
Answer
excessive reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus, heart- burn

21. What are the complications of GERD?
Answer
erosive esophagitis, stricture, Barrett esophagus, esophageal cancer

22. What are the consequenses of untreated gastroenteritis?

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