KROK 1 Stomatology 2013 – Question 41 · KROK (Dentistry)
An 18-year-old patient complains of general weakness, fatigue, low spirits. The patient is of the asthenic constitution type. Ps - 68/min., AP - 90/60 mm Hg. She has been found to have primary neurocirculatory hypotension. What is the leading factor of the arterial pressure drop in this patient?
- A. Deposition of blood in the veins of the systemic circulation
- B. Decreased tonus of resistive vessels
- C. Hypovolemia
- D. Decreased minute blood volume
- E. Decreased cardiac output
Hint
Note that the heart rate is normal and ask which determinant of blood pressure is primarily altered in constitutional vascular dystonia.
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