MODULE 2 CASE STUDIES_ Questions and Well Elaborate Answers

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MODULE 2 CASE STUDIES_ Questions and Well Elaborate Answers Case 1- Inflammation, Tissue Repair, and Wound Healing Case 2 - Mechanisms of Infectious Disease Case 3- Innate and Adaptive Immunity Ca... se 4 - Disorders of the Immune Response, Including HIV/AIDS Case Study 1- Inflammation, Tissue Repair, and Wound Healing Carlton, a 6-year-old boy, was playing on a sandy beach with his mother. He began to run along the shoreline when he stepped on the sharp edge of a shell, giving himself a deep cut on his foot. His mother washed his foot in the lake and put on his running shoe to take him home. One day later, Carlton’s foot looked worse. The gash was red and painful. The foot was warm to touch and appeared swollen. Carlton’s mom put some gauze over the wound and prepared to take him to the local community health clinic (Learning Objectives 1, 2, and 9). 1. What is the physiologic mechanism causing the wound to become red, hot, swollen, and painful? How is this different than the inflammatory response that might occur in an internal organ? [Show More]

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