Author Question: A male patient with hemophilia asks the nurse if his children will be hemophiliacs. Which response ... (Read 80 times)

rosent76 · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

A male patient with hemophilia asks the nurse if his children will be hemophiliacs. Which response by the nurse is appropriate?

a. All of your children will be at risk for hemophilia.
b. Hemophilia is a multifactorial inherited condition.
c. Only your male children are at risk for hemophilia.
d. Your female children will be carriers for hemophilia.

Question 2

When counseling a couple in which the man has an autosomal recessive disorder and the woman has no gene for the disorder, the nurse uses Punnett squares to show the couple the probability of their having a child with the disorder.

Which statement by the nurse is most appropriate?
a. You should consider adoption.
b. Your children will be carriers of the disorder.
c. Your female children will display characteristics of the disorder.
d. Your first-born child will likely display characteristics of the disorder.

swimkari · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Because hemophilia is caused by a mutation of the X chromosome, all female children of a man with hemophilia are carriers of the disorder and can transmit the mutated gene to their offspring. Sons of a man with hemophilia will not have the disorder. Hemophilia is caused by a single genetic mutation and is not a multifactorial inherited condition.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
When one parent has an autosomal recessive disorder and the other parent has no genes for the autosomal recessive disorder, the children will not display characteristics of the disorder. However, the children will be carriers of the autosomal recessive disorder.