KROK 1 2012 – Question 108 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
The patient with acute myocardial infarction was given intravenously different solutions during 8 hours with medical dropper 1500 ml and oxygen intranasally. He died because of pulmonary edema. What caused the pulmonary edema?
- A. Volume overload of the left ventricular
- B. Neurogenic reaction
- C. Decreased oncotic pressure due to hemodilution
- D. Allergic reaction
- E. Inhalation of the oxygen
Hint
Consider what a damaged heart can do with a large intravenous fluid load, and how that changes the filling pressures upstream in the pulmonary veins and capillaries.
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