Ch 34

Question 1

The ____ plays a role as a barrier in preventing or facilitating the transmission of maternal disease to the fetus

Answer 1

Placenta

Question 2

Substances and agents that move across the placental barrier harming the developing fetus are _____ , ____, and antibodies

Answer 2

infectious agents, drugs

Question 3

Maternal hypertension ___ uteroplacental blood flow

Answer 3

decreases

Question 4

Normally as pregnancy progresses, diastolic flow ___, representing ____ resistance to flow

Answer 4

Increases, reduced

Question 5

Toxemia of pregnancy is a ___ trimester disease characterized by maternal edema, hypertension, proteinuria, and central nervous system irritability

Answer 5

third

Question 6

Of the patients diagnosef with preeclampsia, 2% to 12% are affected by the ___ syndrome

Answer 6

HELLP

Question 7

Patients with UTIS during pregnancy should be treated with ____ and monitored by frequent urine ____

Answer 7

antibiotics, cultures

Question 8

Maternal malaria promotes placental ___ causing IUGR, low birth weight, abortion and still birth

Answer 8

Insufficiency

Question 9

Fetal ___ a diagnostic test helps detect heart abnormalities in patients exposed to CMV and rubella

Answer 9

echocardiography

Question 10

If severe ___ toxoplasmosis infection occurs, the outcome presents as central nervous system anomalies such as ___ and mental retardation

Answer 10

hydrocephalus , microcephaly , seizures, intracranial calcification

Question 11

Cyanotic heart disease results in premature birth, IUGR, and miscarriages, possibly owing to the lower ___ content in maternal circulation

Answer 11

oxygen

Question 12

Ingestion of raw meat, contaminated water, and contact with feline feces is advised against for the ob pt owing to the risk of acquiring ____

Answer 12

toxoplasmosis

Question 13

Rigid irregularity shaped blood cells that occur mostly in african americans in the us is a cause of ____ or ___

Answer 13

sickle cell disease, anemia

Question 14

Rh isoimmunization refers to the development of maternal ___ to the surface antigents on fetal ___ blood cells

Answer 14

red

Question 15

Phenylketonuria control is by following a low ____ , low protein ___

Answer 15

phenylalanine , diet

Question 16

Hyperthyroidism produces thyroxine that causes a significant increase of ___ birth weight infants

Answer 16

low

Question 17

The preferred predictor of neonatal weight in the third trimester is the _____ measurement

Answer 17

abdominal circumference

Question 18

Congenital malformations seen with diabetes are related to high blood sugar levels resulting in disruption of embryonic ___

Answer 18

organogenesis

Question 19

C section delivery is indicated in the event of ____ virus in the maternal genital tract

Answer 19

herpes simplex

Question 20

If an OB pt is infected with parvovirus B19, us to image anatomy and measurement of the _____ of the middle cerebral artery are noninvasive procedures to diagnose fetal anemia and nonimmune hydrops

Answer 20

peak systolic flow

Question 21

TORCH

Answer 21

Toxoplasmosis
Other
Rubella
Cytomegalovirus
Herpes