Patho HESI Practice Quiz With Verified

Patho HESI Practice Quiz With Verified Answers

A 26-year-old male client with Hodgkin's disease is scheduled to undergo radiation therapy. The client expresses concern about the effect of radiation on his ability to have children. What information should the nurse provide?

• The radiation therapy causes the inability to have an erection.
• Radiation therapy with chemotherapy causes temporary infertility.
• Permanent sterility occurs in male clients who receive radiation.
• The client should restrict sexual activity during radiotherapy. ✔✔C

Muscular dystrophy is characterized by which pathophysiological condition?

• Stressed induced tremor and trembling.
• Cardiac damage.
• Seizure activity.
• Skeletal muscle degeneration. ✔✔D
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The nurse is assessing a postmenopausal woman who is complaining of urinary urgency and frequency and stress incontinence. She also reports difficulty in emptying her bladder. These complaints are most likely due to which condition?

• Cystocele
• Bladder infection
• Pyelonephritis

Irritable bladder

• Irritable bladder ✔✔A

The parents of a child with hemophilia A ask the nurse about their probability of having another child with hemophilia A. Which information is the basis for the nurse's response? (Select all that apply.)

• Autosomal Dominance occurs with this disorder.
• Sons of female carriers have a 50% chance of inheriting hemophilia.
• Men with hemophilia have sons who also manifest the disease.
• The disease occurs in daughters of men with hemophilia.
• Hemophilia is an X-linked recessive disorder. ✔✔B, E 2 / 3

The nurse is assessing an older client and determines that the client's left upper eyelid droops, covering more of the iris than the right eyelid. Which description should the nurse use to document this finding?

• Ptosis on the left eyelid.
• A nystagmus on the left.
• Astigmatism on the right.
• Exophthalmos on the right. ✔✔A

A client with a fractured right radius reports severe, diffuse pain that has not responded to the prescribed analgesics. The pain is greater with passive movement of the limb than with active movement by the client. The nurse recognizes that the client is most likely exhibiting symptoms of which condition?

• Acute compartment syndrome.
• Fat embolism syndrome.
• Venous thromboembolism.
• Aseptic ischemic necrosis. ✔✔A.
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