A patient has been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease ...

[TFauchery]

A patient has been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease called multiple sclerosis (MS).
 
  The physician explains to the patient that this disease may be caused by dysregulated apoptosis. Later that day, the patient asks the nurse what this means. The nurse should reply,
  A)
  The cells around your nerves don't know how to die correctly.
  B)
  The cytoplasm should neutralize the various apoptotic inhibitors but isn't working correctly.
  C)
  Dysregulated apoptosis has caused an excessive rate of programmed cell death along the neuropathways.
  D)
  There is an inappropriately low rate of apoptosis occurring within the cells.

Question 2

A 77-year-old man is a hospital inpatient admitted for exacerbation of his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and a respiratory therapist (RT) is assessing the client for the first time.
 
  Which of the following aspects of the patient's current state of health would be best characterized as a symptom rather than a sign?
  A)
  The patient's oxygen saturation is 83 by pulse oxymetry.
  B)
  The patient notes that he has increased work of breathing when lying supine.
  C)
  The RT hears diminished breath sounds to the patient's lower lung fields bilaterally.
  D)
  The patient's respiratory rate is 31 breaths/minute.

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Answer to Question 1

Ans:
C

Feedback:

Dysregulated apoptosis can mean too little or too much and has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, in which there is an increased or excessive rate of apoptosis.

Answer to Question 2

Ans:
B

Feedback:

Symptoms are subjective complaints by the person experiencing the health problem, such as complaints of breathing difficulty. Oxygen levels, listening to breath sounds, and respiratory rate are all objective, observable signs of disease.

[TFauchery]

TYSM

[amandanbreshears]

Excellent