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Medical Assistant NCMA Practice Test

Category - Medication Awareness

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Ribavarin is a ____________ used to treat __________ that rarely has the adverse effect of inducing ____________.

Serotonin antagonist, nausea and vomiting, paralysis
Voltage-gated Na⁺ channel blocker, Parkinson’s disease, aplastic anemia
Synthetic nucleoside analog, chronic hepatitis C, cardiac arrest
HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, hyperlipidemia, rhabdomyolysis

Explanation

Answer: C. Ribavarin is a synthetic nucleoside analog and is an antiviral agent used primarily to treat refractory hepatitis C. Other main adverse effects include suicidal ideation, blood dyscrasias, pneumothorax, pancreatitis and other respiratory effects.

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