Question

Mr. Swanson is a 72-year-old patient with alcoholism. He is seeing Dr. Pugh at the Clearview Wellness Clinic because he is experiencing nausea, indigestion, and weakness. When the medical assistant records Mr. Swanson's weight, she notices that he has lost 25 pounds since his last visit with Dr. Pugh. The patient also tells

the medical assistant that he vomited blood yesterday.
Based on Mr. Swanson's symptoms and personal history, you would suspect ______ to be the physician's diagnosis.

A. hepatitis A
B. cirrhosis
C. HIV
D. jaundice


Answer 1

cirrhosis

Step-by-step explanation:

• Nausea and indigestion directly indicating for liver damage .
• Then it can be hepatitis A or cirrhosis.
• But in hepatitis A vomitting blood is not a symptom so cirrhosis is the disease.

Option B is correct