Patient X is a woman who is seeing her physician because of changes in her menstruation. She complains of oligomenorrhea, fatigue, muscle weakness, and back pain. Upon physical examination, the physician notes that she exhibits red, moon face and that her blood pressure is high. Her blood lab results indicate hyperglycemia. What potential endocrine disorder does this woman most likely have?
a. Cushing's syndrome
b. Addison's disease
c. Diabetes mellitus
d. Diabetes insipidus
Question 2
Prolonged vomiting is likely to lead to what type of acid-base imbalance?
a. respiratory alkalosis
b. respiratory acidosis
c. metabolic alkalosis
d. metabolic acidosis
e. lactic acidosis
The liver in this photograph was from a deceased patient with an advanced state of cirrhosis.
Stained section of cerebral cortex from autopsy of a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Medical assistants can quickly pull up a patient record when a phone call is received.
Assisting the patient to transfer from the bed or examining table to a wheelchair.
A partnership between the patient and the health care provider.
Middle-aged Flavian Woman