When the nurse learns that the assigned clients include a child with aplastic anemia, the nurse knows that this is a condition involving:
a. production of an inadequate number of erythrocytes
b. lack of, or deficiency in, factor V
c. circulation of highly moldable platelets
d. production of inadequate amounts of hemoglobin
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A Correct. Aplastic anemia is a condition therein injury to or abnormal expression of the stem cells in the bone marrow results in the production of inadequate numbers of erythrocytes, leukocytes, and platelets.
B Incorrect. Aplastic anemia is not a condition involving the lack of, or deficiency in, factor V.
C Incorrect. Aplastic anemia is not a condition involving the circulation of highly moldable platelets.
D Incorrect. Aplastic anemia is not a condition involving the production of inadequate amounts of hemoglobin.
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