Medsurg ch 25 - 01
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- Cancer of the lymph system is
- Lymphoma
- Abnormalities in what can cause lymphoma?
- B and T cells
- What is enlargement of the spleen?
- Splenomegaly
- Symptoms of Hodgkins
- Painless lump, low grade fevers, weight loss
- What do you monitor for a patient with lymphoma?
- Hemoglobin and hematocrit
- What places a person with a splenectomy at risk for respiratory complications?
- An incision near the diapharam
- What is OPSI
- Overwhelming post splenectomy infection
- A post splenectomy patient should recieve what?
- instructions to get vaccines against infection
- Stage 2 Hodgkins disease is what?
- Localized involvement of more than two adjacent or nonadjacent regions on one side of the diaphram
- Hodgkin's lymphoma victims are younger or older than non hodgkins?
- Younger
- Hodgkin's lymphoma victims are likely to have what?
- Fever and night sweats
- What does the absence of Reed Sternberg cells mean?
- Non hodgkin's lymphoma
- Epstein Barr and Herpes may play a role in what?
- Development of non hodgkin's lymphoma
- Early symptoms of OPSI
- Fever and malaise
- Where does HD usually begin?
- cervical lymph nodes of neck