KROK 1 2012 – Question 187 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 26 year old pregnant woman is under treatment at an in-patient hospital. After a continuous attack of vomiting she was found to have reduced volume of circulating blood. What kind of change in general blood volume is the case?
- A. Oligocythemic hypervolemia
- B. Polycythemic hypovolemia
- C. Oligocythemic hypovolemia
- D. Simple hypovolemia
- E. Polycythemic hypervolemia
Hint
Compare what vomiting removes, mostly water and electrolytes or whole blood, and ask what that does to the proportion of red cells in the remaining volume.
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