Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2020
A patient developed left ventricular heart failure. What compensatory responses in the patient’s body will aimed at the prevention of pulmonary edema?
Answer options
- Increased permeability of the pulmonary capillaries
- Increased central venous pressure
- Decreased peripheral resistance in the systemic arterioles
- Blood accumulation in the systemic veins
- Reflex spasm of the pulmonary arterioles and decrease of blood pressure in the pulmonary microvasculature
Correct answer
Reflex spasm of the pulmonary arterioles and decrease of blood pressure in the pulmonary microvasculature
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