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NRTC Med/Surg Ch. 35
HIV/AIDS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| List four ways HIV can be transmitted | blood, breast milk, vaginal secretions, and semen |
| An involuntary loss of more than 10% body weight, plus more than 30 days of either diarrhea, weakness, and fever. | Wasting Syndrome |
| double layer lipid layer surrounding HIV virus | capsid |
| copies RNA to viral DNA | reverse transcription |
| Incorporates viral DNA into Host cell's DNA | Integrase |
| Which test will help determine if a client has HIV antibodies in her bloodstream? | ELISA |
| HIV cancer of the skin and connective tissue | Kaposi's sarcoma |
| What race has the highest HIV rate? | African Americans |
| What does the HIV lead to? | AIDS |
| Are HIV patients only given one medication to treat complications? | No, combination of 3 or 4 antiviral drugs |
| infections that usually do not occur in individuals with a healthy immune system. | opportunistic infections |
| Type of drug people with HIV/AIDS are treated with. | Antiretroviral |
| Clients need to be on a strict pill regimen so they don't develop what? | Drug resistance |
| Immunosuppressed clients may develop serious diarrhea as a result of a protozoan called | Cryptospordium |
| impairs the ability of infected T4 cells to recognize foreign antigens and stimulate B-cell lymphocytes | AIDS |
| 10-15 days after initial exposure; mistaken for the flu, strep, or another virus and then goes away. | acute retroviral syndrome |
| used to be adjunct for AIDS to slow tumor/virus replication | Hydroxyurea (Hydrea) |
| Degeneration of the brain, affects mood, cognition, and motor functions. | AIDS dementia complex |
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