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NUR 633: ADVANCED PATHOPHYSIOLOGY QUESTIONS
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MULTIPLE CHOICES
Which of the following statements is true regarding drug therapy and its effects on the body?
a) Drugs only have positive effects on cells.
b) Drugs do not injure tissues or cells.
c) Antineoplastic cells directly damage cells.
d) Drugs only have bad effects when they have side effects. ........Correct ✓✓ c) Antineoplastic cells directly
damage cells.
Explanation:
Antineoplastic drugs directly injure cells. Many drugs injure tissues and cells either through their direct
mechanism of action, side effects, or adverse effects.
Which of the following clients are at high risk for developing dilated cardiomyopathy?
a) 17 year old with a diving injury resulting in paraplegia.
b) 78 year old Alzheimer's patient who received a third degree burn following an oven fire.
c) 44 year old noncompliant female who forgets to take her hypertensive medications.
d) 4 year old child born with cerebral palsy and confined to a wheelchair. ........Correct ✓✓ c) 44 year old
noncompliant female who forgets to take her hypertensive medications.
Explanation:
In hypertension, the increased workload required to pump blood against an elevated arterial pressure in the aorta
results in a progressive increase in LV muscle mass and need for coronary blood flow. The pressure overload
causes hypertrophied cells to have greater width and length. Paraplegia, cerebral palsy and Alzheimer's disease
does not increase the workload of the cardiac muscle per se.
A nurse is assessing a patient who is a body builder. The nurse documents the increased size of the patient's
muscle as resulting from which of the following?
a) Atrophy
b) Hypertrophy
