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Chapter 14 Drugs for the Reproductive System Questions
Question 1 of 5
A 75-year-old woman with hypertension is being treated with a thiazide. Her blood pressure responds and reads at 120/76 mm Hg. After several months on the medication, she complains of being tired and weak. An analysis of the blood indicates low values for which of the following?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
A 55-year-old patient with severe post-hepatitis cirrhosis is started on a diuretic for another condition. Two days later he is found in a coma. The drug most likely to cause coma in a patient with cirrhosis is
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
Urinary potassium concentrations are measured before and after several weeks of administering a loop diuretic (typical daily dosages). We find that post-treatment urine K⁺ concentrations are substantially lower than those measured at baseline. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for this observation?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
A patient with heart failure has been managed with digoxin and furosemide and is doing well by all measures, for 3 years. He develops acute rheumatoid arthritis and is placed on rather large doses of a very efficacious non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug-one that inhibits both cyclo-oxygenase pathways (COX-1 and -2). Which of the following is the most likely outcome of adding the NSAID?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A patient with compromised renal hemodynamics is given a trial of mannitol. Of the following, which is the least likely to be associated with the effect of mannitol?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.