KROK 1 2012 – Question 54 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 50 year old patient suffers from essential hypertension. After a physical stress he experienced muscle weakness, breathlessness, cyanosis of lips, skin and face. Respiration was accompanied by distinctly heard bubbling rales. What mechanism underlies the development of this syndrome?
- A. Collapse
- B. Cardiac tamponade
- C. Chronic left-ventricular failure
- D. Acute left-ventricular failure
- E. Chronic right-ventricular failure
Hint
Consider what bubbling rales with cyanosis after exertion in a hypertensive patient say about fluid in the lungs, and which part of the heart has suddenly stopped coping with its load.
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