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I am working at a case study but only the pathophysiology part.
a case study to a patient suffering from Tuberculosis stage 3, and just undergone pleural effusion.
it is a group work actually. the "pathophysiology" was assigned to me.
how am i gonna start it?it's my first-time to do such study.
we were told to do the book-based and patient-based pathophysiology..
the patient said, she was hospitalized way back months ago, diagnosed with "bronchitis",
then the clinic doctor gave her medicines but did not do anygood with her condition.she was hospitalized for a week.
then was referred to a certain doctor in a hospital..undergone pleural effusion and later diagnosed TB stage3..

2006-12-02 13:27:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diseases & Conditions Respiratory Diseases

4 answers

just take it from there if you know TB stage 3 symptoms and findings such as: she came back to the hospital complaining of night sweats, accompanied by chills and noticed her appetite had been decreasing and maybe she lost alot of weight in a short time..she's been coughing up blood and has a gradual onset of chest pain aggravated by deep breathing that does not radiate. In end stage she would have distended neck veins, pitting edema, enlarged and tender liver from polycythemia and cor polmonale also digital clubbing, cyanosis, dull percussion noted in lungs, all vital signs will be increased, all lung volumes and capacities will be decreased...her ABG will have a normal pH, high CO2, high HCO3, and low Pao2, positive AFB, On CXR-increased opacity, cavity formation, calcification and fibrosis just make up any story but add these in and don't forget the patients smoking history and working history maybe she worked wherever a lot of dust might've been around...hope this helped a little...good luck on your paper.

2006-12-06 06:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by uh... 2 · 0 0

How To Make Pathophysiology

2017-01-13 10:56:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

You need to look up TB in your textbook. The pathophysiology of TB to be exact. Pathophysiology is the way the disease works; like HIV injecting itself into CD4 cells is part of the patho for HIV. It begins with the TB droplets being inhaled into the lungs...it then lodges in the aveoli and is detected by the immune system at which time the immune system attepts to wall in off...so on and so forth. Don't copy that because it will not get you a good grade. It is just a little start.

2006-12-02 13:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Charis 3 · 0 0

The pathophysiology is the path the disease follows. It is not patient specific. Look up what causes TB, what kind of damage it does, etc.

You can related it to your patient by saying the patient had this symptom, but not that one, however, the patient's progression is most likely part of another student's section.

2006-12-02 14:03:58 · answer #4 · answered by Raina 4 · 0 0

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