The nurse suspects that a patient with chronic hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex has an infection. What did the nurse assess to come to this conclusion?
1. general feeling of malaise
2. recent weight loss
3. muscular tremors
4. sense of nervous energy
Correct Answer: 1
Elevated cortisol levels impair the immune response and put the patient with Cushing syndrome at risk for infection. A generalized feeling of malaise may be the primary manifestation of infection. Weight change, muscle tremors, and nervous energy are not manifestations of infection in the patient with chronic hyperfunction of the adrenal cortex.
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