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NURS 6501 Mod 1-4 Questions and Answers 100% Pass Why is HDL considered good cholesterol? - ANSWER-It's able to remove cholesterol from artery plaques and recycle it back to the liver. Why is HDL consider good cholesterol - ANSWER-HDL is considered good cholesterol because it collects excess c...

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NURS 6501 Mod 1-4 Questions and
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Why is HDL considered good cholesterol? - ANSWER✔✔-It's able to remove

cholesterol from artery plaques and recycle it back to the liver.


Why is HDL consider good cholesterol - ANSWER✔✔-HDL is considered good

cholesterol because it collects excess cholesterol in the body cells and transports it to the

liver where it is excreted. HDL carries 20 to 25% of total plasma cholesterol.


Explain the role inflammation has in the development of atherosclerosis - ANSWER✔✔-

Inflammation in the heart muscle caused by chronic inflammatory processes leads to

mitochondrial damage that results in an increased free radical production that further

activates the chronic inflammatory vicious cycle


Explain the role inflammation has in the development of atherosclerosis - ANSWER✔✔-

Activated mast cells recruit inflammatory cells that provoke plaque formation and lead

to atherosclerosis. Chronic inflammatory infiltrates occupy layers of arteries were stable

plaques are formed and associated with atherosclerosis.




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,Explain the role inflammation has in the development of atherosclerosis - ANSWER✔✔-

Additionally active inflammation involves a thinning at the fibrous Of atherosclerotic

plaque which predisposes vulnerable plaque to rupture.


Why does the APRN recognize as the result of the pleural friction rub? - ANSWER✔✔-

The inflammation of the pericardium due to either the underlying autoimmune disease

or a post viral syndrome causes roughening of the pericardium. This causes the classic

rug which can be best heard at the Apex of the heart and left sternal border.


Explain how a positive strep test has caused the patient's symptoms - ANSWER✔✔-

Rheumatic heart disease RHD only develops after a pharyngeal infection with group a

beta hemolytic streptococcus. It is an abnormal response to humoral and cell mediated

response to M proteins. Inflammation causes proliferative and exudative lesions in

connective tissue.


Explain how a positive strep test has caused the patient's symptoms - ANSWER✔✔-

Inflammation causes scarring of the valve tissue. Inflammation usually affects the

endocardium which contains the valves. Endocardial inflammation causes swelling of

leaflets in the valves.


Describe the factors that could have contributed to the development of a DVT in this

patient and explain how each of the factors could cause DVT - ANSWER✔✔-Virchow's

Triad caused damage to the walls of the vessels. Injury to the intimal layer of the vessel,




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, antiplatelet substances such as nitric oxide and prostacyclin, along with the expression

of collagen on the vessel wall, causes adherence to the platelets to the vessel wall.


Describe the factors that could have contributed to the development of a DVT in this

patient and explain how each of the factors could cause DVT - ANSWER✔✔-Platelets

become activated, then aggregate, forming clots. Venous stasis is a result of obesity,

patients advanced age, and inability to perform physical therapy therapy.


Explain why large pulmonary embolus interferes with oxygenation - ANSWER✔✔-The

embolus lodges somewhere in the pulmonary circulation and causes a

ventilation/perfusion mismatch V/Q. Ventilation perfusion mismatch or V/Q defects

are defects in total long ventilation perfusion ratio.


Explain why large pulmonary embolus interferes with oxygenation - ANSWER✔✔-It is

a condition in which one or more areas of the lung receive oxygen but no blood flow, or

they receive blood flow but no oxygen due to obstruction somewhere in the pulmonary

circulation. This causes a decreased area for oxygen exchange.


Explain why a large pulmonary embolism causes right ventricular strain -

ANSWER✔✔-The V/Q mismatch causes release of neurohumeral substances and

inflammatory mediators that cause vasoconstriction of the pulmonary vasculature

further impeding oxygenation.




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