Author Question: After hearing horror stories about the signs, symptoms, and course of lymphogranuloma venereum ... (Read 44 times)

futuristic · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

After hearing horror stories about the signs, symptoms, and course of lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), a high school student has asked a visiting sexual health educator about the odds of acquiring the disease among sexually active Americans.

Which of the following facts will most accurately underlie the educator's response?
A)
LGV has been eradicated in the United States but still has significant prevalence and incidence in Southeast Asia and Central America.
B)
This disease is not common in the United States, but existing cases disproportionately affect women.
C)
Men who have sex with men are at particular risk of LGV.
D)
The virus that causes LGV is rare outside the tropics.

Question 2

A nursing student studying obstetrics asks the faculty, How does the sperm get so much energy to swim up the fallopian tubes?

The instructor responds based on which pathophysiological principle?
A)
Usually the ejaculation is so powerful that it propels the sperm far up into the fallopian tubes.
B)
Fructose is secreted by the seminal vesicles and provides energy for motility of the sperm.
C)
The seminal vesicles secrete fluid for the semen, and they can secrete catecholamines that energize the sperm.
D)
Estrogen, which is being secreted when the ova are ripe and ready for penetration, assists by attracting the sperm in the right direction.

xMRAZ · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans:
C

Feedback:

In the United States, men who have sex with men are the population with the highest prevalence and incidence of LGV. It is bacterial in etiology and affects more men than women.

Answer to Question 2

Ans:
B

Feedback:

The seminal vesicles consist of two highly tortuous tubes that secrete fluid for the semen. Each of the paired seminal vesicles is lined with secretory epithelium containing an abundance of fructose, prostaglandins, and several other proteins. The fructose secreted by the seminal vesicles provides the energy for sperm motility.