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ADV NUR PR NSG5003 S0 Week 7 GI Questions and Answers 1. The __________ functions primarily as a conduit for passage of food and liquid from pharynx to the stomach 2. _________ is characterized by ... a protrusion of the stomach through the esophageal hiatus of the diaphragm 3. The most frequent of _______ is heartburn 4. There is a considerable evidence linking gastroesophageal reflux with _______ 5. _______ involves mucosal injury to the esophagus, hyperemia, and inflammation 6. Most squamous cell esophageal carcinomas are attributable to _____ and _____ 7. The stomach lining is _______ to the acid it secretes, a property that allows the stomach to contain acid and pepsin without having its wall digested 8. Difficulty passing food into the stomach 9. _______ is most commonly associated with local irritants such as aspirin or other nsaids, alcohol, or bacterial toxins 10. ______ is denoted by the absence of grossly visible erosions and the presence of chronic inflammatory changes leading eventually to atrophy of the glandular epithelium of the stomach 11. Autoimmune gastritis results from the presence of _______ to components of gastric gland parietal cells and intrinsic factor 12. _______ is a term used to describe a group of ulcerative disorders that occur in areas of the upper GI tract that are exposed to acid-pepsin secretions 13. What are the most common complications of peptic ulcers - Hemorrhage, perforation and penetration, and gastric outlet obstruction 14. Laboratory findings of hypochromic anemia and occult blood in the stools indicate 15. What is the major physiologic mediator for hydrochloric acid secretion 16. Who are at high risk for the development of stress ulcers? 17. What is the second most common tumor in the world 18. How is IBS characterized 19. The term inflammatory bowel disease is used to designate two related inflammatory intestinal disorders ____ & _______ 20. _______ disease is a recurrent granulomatous type of inflammatory response that can affect any area of the GI tract 21. Ulcerative colitis is confined to the 22. What deficiencies are common in crohns disease 23. A characteristic of ulcerative colitis are the lesions that form crypts of _______ in the base of the mucosal layer 24. The complications of _________ result from massive fluid loss or destruction of intestinal mucosa 25. _________ is a condition in which the mucosal later of the colon herniated through the muscularis layer 26. ___________ is a complication of diverculosis in which there is inflammation and gross or microscopic perforations of the diverticulum 27. Intestinal obstruction designates an impairment of movement of intestinal contents in a 28. What results from neurogenic and muscular impairment of peristalsis 29. Peritonitis is an inflammatory response of the _________ that lines the abdominal cavity and covers the visceral organs 30. What is esophageal atresia 31. Backward movement of gastric contents into the esophagus 32. Barret esophagus 33. Tracheoesophageal fistulae 34. Tears in the esophagus at the esophagogastric junction 35. What is perforation 36. Most common cause of chronic gastritis in US 37. What disease is helicobacter pylori associated with 38. What are tubelike passages that form connections between different sites in the GI tract - 39. What is Zollinger-ellison syndrome 40. Immune mediated disorder triggered by ingesting of gluten containing grains 41. What type of diarrhea is defined as Water being pulled into the bowel by hyperosmotic nature of its contents 42. Presence of an excess of gastrin in the blood 43. What is steatorrheic 44. What is the hallmark symptom of crohn’s disease 45. Benign neoplasms that arise from the mucosal epithelium of the intestine are 46. Describe the progression and remission of peptic ulcers 47. What is the relationship between helocobacter pylori and the development of stomach cancer 48. what is hypothesized to be a cause of inflammatory bowel disease (colitis, crohns) 49. what is the mechanism of diverticulosis formation 50. hiatal hernias can cause severe pain if the hernia is large. Gastroesophageal reflux is a common comorbidity of hiatal hernia, and when this occurs, what might the hernia do ? 51. infants and children commonly have gerd. Many times it is asymptomatic and resolves on its own. What are the s/s of gerd in infants with severe disease - 52. The stomach secretes acid to begin the digestive process on the food that we eat. The gastric mucosal barrier works to prevents acids secreted by the stomach from actually damaging the wall of the stomach. What are the factors that make up the gastric mucosal barrier? 53. Helicobacter pylori gastritis has a prevalence over 50% of American adults over the age of 50, which is thought to be caused by a previous infection when the client was younger. What can chronic gastritis cause by hpylori cause 54. Rotavirus is common infection in children younger than 5. Like other diseases rotavirus is ost severe in children under 24m. what is a symptoms of rotavirus 55. Diverticulitis is a herniation of tissue of the large intestine through the muscularis layer of the colon. It is often asymptomatic and is found in approximately 80% of people over age 85. Divericuloitis is often asymptomatic but when symptoms do occur what is the most common complaint of the client 56. Diarrhea is described as a change in frequency of stool passage to a point where it is excessively frequent. Diarrhea can be acute or chronic, inflammatory , or non inflammatory. What are the symptoms of noninflammatory diarrhea 57. Peritonitis is an inflammatory condition of the lining of the abdominal cavity. What is one of the most important signs of peritonitis 58. One of the accepted methods of screening for colorectal cancer is testing for occult blood in the stool. Because its is possible to get a false positive result on these tests you would instruct the client to do what 59. Which of the follow organs is not part of the alimentary GI tract 60. Which of the following is not one of the 3 salivary glands 61. Which of the following is true regarding salivation 62. Which blood vessel provides blood to the stomach 63. Which of the following hormones is responsible for inhibition of stomach contraction - 64. Which cells of the stomach secrete hydrochloric acid and intrinsic factor 65. Which of the following is not a function of stomach acid 66. Which enzyme is responsible for breaking the end amino acids away from the ingested protein 67. Which enzyme is responsible for cleaving fatty acids from phospholipids - Phospholipids 68. When iron is being absorbed into the small bowel, to what protein is it bound in the epithelial cells 69. Which cells of the liver store lipids 70. Which of the following is the appropriate description for unconjugated bilirubin - 71. The muscularis of the Gi tract is 72. The digestive functions performed by the saliva and salivary amylase, respectively are 73. The nervous pathway involved in salivary secretion requires the stimulation of 74. Food would pass rapidly from the stomach into the duodenum if it were not for the 75. The secretion of gastric juice 76. Beginning at the lumen the sequence of layers of the gi tract is - Mucosa, submucosa, muscularis and serosa 77. Normally when chyme leaves the stomach 78. Which layer of the small intestine includes the microvilli 79. Pancreatic juice to trypsin as gastric juice is to 80. The chief role played by the pancreas in digestion is to 81. Among the structural features of the small intestine are villi, microvilli, and circular folds, their function is to 82. An obstruction of the common bile duct would cause the blockage of bile coming from 83. The human adult liver does not 84. The chyme that enters the large intestine is coverted to feces by activity of 85. Esophageal atresia (EA) is the most common congenital anomaly of the esophagus and is incompatible with life. The majority of children born with EA also have tracheoesophageal fistulae. What are the signs and symptoms of EA in a newborn? 86. Penetration 87. A 39-year-old Caucasian woman presents at the clinic with complaints of epigastric pain that are cramp like, rhythmic, and just below xiphoid. She states that it wakes her up around 1 AM and that she is not sleeping well because of it. She further states that this is her third painful episode in the past year. The nurse suspects the patient has a peptic ulcer and expects to receive what orders from the physician? 88. A patient in a nursing home complains to her nurse that she is not feeling well. When asked to describe how she feels, the patient states that she really is not hungry anymore and seems to have indigestion a lot. The nurse checks the patient's chart and finds that her vital signs are normal, but that she has lost weight over the past 2 months. She also notes that there is a history of gastric cancer in the patient's family. The nurse notifies the physician and expects to receive what order 89. Crohn disease is a recurrent inflammatory disease that can affect any area of the bowel. The characteristic of this disease is granulomatous lesions that are sharply demarcated from the surrounding tissue. As a nurse caring for a patient with newly diagnosed Crohn disease, you would know to include what in your teaching? 90. Celiac disease commonly presents in infancy as failure to thrive. It is an inappropriate T-cell-mediated immune response, and there is no cure for it. What is the treatment of choice for celiac disease [Show More]

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