cardiovascular disorders
Pooling of blood in superficial veins caused by valve damage.
What are varicose veins?
This vessel type brings blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
This lung sound is often found in an asthma attack.
What is wheezing?
Sensation of difficult breathin.
What is dyspnea?
Small RBCs from low hemoglobin production.
What is microcytic or iron deficient anemia?
Build up of fatty plaques inside arteries.
What is atherosclerosis?
Blood enters the heart from the lungs through this major vessel?
What is the pulmonary vein?
This respiratory disorder in characterized by airway inflammation, bronchospasm, and increased mucus production.
What is asthma?
Difficulty breathing when lying flat because blood shifts into the lungs.
What is orthopnea?
A deficiency in all formed blood elements.
What is aplasitc anemia?
Chest pain that does NOT stop with rest.
What is unstable angina?
This type of HF results in generalized edema, JVD, and hepatomegaly.
What is right sided heart failure?
This disorder is characterized by barrel chest, pursed lip breathing, and air trapping.
What is emphysema?
Bluish skin or lip discoloration from low oxygen levels.
What os cyanosis?
This condition results in impaired clotting.
What is thrombocytomenia?
Prolonged lack of blood flow causes irreversible damage to heart muscle cells.
What is a myocardial infarction?
This is the most common cause of right sised heart failure?
Left sided heart failure?
This condition presents with a long-term productive cough, frequent infections, and cyanosis.
What is chronic bronchitis?
Rounding and enlargement of fingertips from chronic low oxygen.
What is clubbing?
This treatment causes bone marrow suppression resulting in thrombocytopenia.
What is chemotherapy?
This disorder is characterized by sharp chest pain that does not respond to medication, diaphoresis, pallor, and sense of impending doom.
What is myocardial infarction?
This type of HF results in dyspnea, frothy pink sputum, and orthopnea.
What is left sided heart failure?
This manifestation of emphysema is a result of chronic air trapping in the lungs.
What is barrel chest?
Deep, rapid breathing in metabolic acidosis.
What are Kussmaul respirations?
Chronic GI bleeds are a common cause of this disorder.
What is iron deficient anemia?