Final Exam: NUR631 / NUR 631 (Latest 2025
/ 2026 Update) Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology Exam | Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - GCU Vasospastic disorder of the small arteries and arterioles of the fingers and less commonly of the toes - ANSWER - Best describes Raynauds Disease Liver - ANSWER - Vitamin K is required for normal clotting factor synthesis by what?Gluten sensitive eneropathy - ANSWER - Characterized by damage to the mucosa of the duodenum, jejunum and impaired secretion of secretin, cholecytokinin, and pancreatic enzymes 1 / 4
What causes a person with cystic fibrosis to experience an exocrine pancreatic insufficiency? - ANSWER - Pancreatic ducts are obstructed with mucus What factor associated with gluten-sensitive enteropathy (ciliac sprue) causes an infant to bruise and bleed easily? - ANSWER - Vitamin K deficiency from fat malabsorption Saliva contains which immunoglobulin? - ANSWER - IgA Where is the region responsible for motor aspects of speech located? - ANSWER
- Broca frontal lobe
Why status epilepticus is considered a medical emergency? - ANSWER - Cerebral Hypoxia 2 / 4
Which condition poses the highest risk for CVA? - ANSWER - Hypertension Benign, slow growing tumor that arise from cells of anterior pituitary. Commonly secrete GH & prolactin - ANSWER - pituitary adenoma Permits backflow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium during ventricular systole - ANSWER - Mitral regurgitation Most common etiologic agent is Epstein barr virus - ANSWER - infectious mononucleosis Slowly progressing blood cell cancer that begins in the bone marrow. - ANSWER
- Chronic melogenous leukemia (CML)
95% have Philidelphia chromosome present. Patient is usually asymptomatic.WBC elevated 3 / 4
Cancer of lymphatic system. - ANSWER - Hodgkin lymphoma May produce free immunoglobulin light chain (Bence Jones protein) that is present in the blood and urine of 80% of patients Treatment for polycythemia - ANSWER - Phlebotomy How does the body compensate for anemia? - ANSWER - Kidneys release more erythropoietin What type of anemia is characterized by fatigue, weakness, dyspnea, brittle concave nails, and conjunctive of eyes - ANSWER - Iron Deficiency The underlying disorder of which anemia is a result of the defective secretion of the intrinsic factor which is essential for the absorption of vitamin B12 -
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