Mrs. Jackson, a 59-year-old woman, has undergone a left radical mastectomy (removal of the left breast and left axillary lymph nodes and vessels). Her left arm is severely swollen and painful, and she is unable to raise it to more than shoulder height. a. Explain her signs and symptoms. b. Can she expect to have relief from these symptoms in time? How so?

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Hi, everyone. Here's our next problem. Swollen lymph nodes are often a sign of a infection or inflammation. B high blood pressure, C low iron levels or d kidney dysfunction. Well, our answer here will be choice a infection or inflammation. Uh swollen lymph nodes are often caused by an immune response which would be in response to an infection or in an inflammatory response. They contain lymphocytes and macrophages which is part of the immune system helped to fight infections and filter out harmful substances. When we look at our answer choices, uh high blood pressure uh does not cause swollen lymph nodes. In fact, it has almost no symptoms, which is one of the reasons it's so dangerous. Uh because you can have dangerous levels of high blood pressure and not realize it. So, choice B, not our correct answer here. Choice C low iron levels causes symptoms of fatigue, pale skin weakness but does not cause full and lymph nodes. It's not our answer here. And finally, for the kidney dysfunction will cause symptoms such as fluid retention changes in urine output and electrolyte imbalance. But again, you wouldn't expect it to cause cause swollen lymph nodes So not our correct answer here. So again, as full lymph nodes often a sign of choice a infection or inflammation. See you in the next video.