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dalyningkenk

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The nurse is providing instruction to a patient recently prescribed a radioactive iodine isotope. Which is the correct action of this medication?
 
  a. Stimulates the synthesis of T3 and T4 hormones
  b. Increases the storage of thyroxine before thyroid surgery
  c. Destroys hyperactive thyroid tissue
  d. Replaces deficient thyroid hormone

Question 2

Which patient would be a candidate for radioactive iodine therapy?
 
  a. A 17-year-old woman with Graves' disease
  b. A 64-year-old woman with hypothyroidism
  c. A 46-year-old man with heart disease and thyroid cancer
  d. An 82-year-old man with myxedema crisis


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cadimas

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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
The thyroid gland absorbs high concentrations of radioactive iodine, which destroys the hyperactive thyroid tissue with essentially no damage to other tissues in the body. Radioactive iodine does not stimulate hormone synthesis, increase hormone storage, or replace deficient hormones.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Patients typically treated with radioactive iodine therapy are those who are beyond childbearing years, those with severe complicating diseases (e.g., heart disease), those with recurrent hyperthyroidism after previous thyroid surgery, those who are poor surgical risks, and those who have unusually small thyroid glands. Women of childbearing age should not be treated with radioactive iodine. Hypothyroidism and myxedema are not treated with radioactive iodine.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 24, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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