KROK 1 2012 – Question 93 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 56 year old patient suffering from cardiac insufficiency has edema of feet and shins, edematous skin is pale and cold. What is the leading mechanism of edema pathogenesis?
- A. Disorder of lymph outflow
- B. Increase of capillary permeability
- C. Rise of hydrostatic pressure in venules
- D. Drop of oncotic pressure in capillaries
- E. Positive water balance
Hint
Think about what happens in the leg veins and capillaries when the failing heart cannot pump out the blood returned to it, and which force pushes fluid out of the vessels.
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