Mr. and Mrs. Frank are planning to conceive a child and are interested in receiving genetic counseling because of their ages and a history of cystic fibrosis on Mrs. Frank's side of the family. A brief history reveals that Mr. Frank has no known family history of cystic fibrosis or any other genetic disorder. He is 45 years old and has two children from a previous marriage, both of whom are well. Mrs. Frank has a sister with three children the last of whom was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. There are no other known family members with this disease. Mrs. Frank is 35 years old and has no children. When assessing the risk for bearing a child with cystic fibrosis, one must consider that the disease is genetically inherited as:

A. autosomal dominant
B. autosomal recessive
C. X linked
D. Chromosomal

A35-year-old woman comes to the ed complaining of chest pressure. she has had such episodes intermittently over the last 5 years, usually when sleeping, but over the last year she has had more frequent severe symptoms that are occasionally associated with severe migraine headaches. the pain is midsternal and is described as pressure that extends as a band around her chest. the ed physician is initially dubious that the pain is cardiac in origin, because the woman has no coronary disease risk factors. an ecg, however, shows 2mm st-segment elevation and inverted t waves in leads v1 through v5 and 1mm st-segment depression in leads ii, iii, and avf. before the cardiologist arrives in the ed, the patient's ecg has returned to normal. this repeat normal ecg is obtained after the administration of aspirin, nitroglycerin, morphine, and oxygen. which of the following is most likely for these findings? - diffuse intimal thickening with focal areas of atherosclerotic narrowing - intermittent thrombus formation and lysis in the left anterior descending artery - intermittent thrombus formation and lysis in the right coronary artery - plaque rupture and thrombus formation in the left anterior descending artery - transiently increased coronary vascular tone in the right coronary artery