Chapter 50: Liver Disease

Question 1

Findings in viral hepatitis

Answer 1

Findings in viral hepatitis include fever, jaundice, icterus (yellowish sclera),
itching, clay-colored stool, dark urine, right upper quadrant tenderness, and
nausea.

Question 2

Which factor increases a patient’s risk for the development of
hepatitis C?

Answer 2

Health care workers are at an increased risk for the development of hepatitis C because these workers can easily be exposed to blood and body fluids.

Question 3

Which type of cirrhosis is caused by hepatitis C?
Biliary

Answer 3

Postnecrotic cirrhosis

Question 4

Which laboratory finding signifies an immune response to liver disease?

Answer 4

Elevated serum globulin

Question 5

Decreased serum total protein indicates which classification of
liver disease?

Answer 5

Chronic liver disease

Question 6

Supplementation with which vitamin may be needed for a patient with cirrhosis if the patient is at risk for alcohol withdrawal?

Answer 6

Thiamine

Question 7

findings in patient with Hep B.

Answer 7

itching.
tea colored urine.
RUQ tenderness.