KROK 1 2013 – Question 91 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient with a pathology of the cardiovascular system developed edemata of the lower extremities. What is the mechanism of cardiac edema development?
- A. Increased hydrostatic pressure at the arterial end of the capillary
- B. Increased hydrostatic pressure at the venous end of the capillary
- C. Lymph efflux disorder
- D. Increased oncotic pressure
- E. Reduced osmotic pressure
Hint
Use the Starling balance of forces across the vessel wall and ask which of them is changed by blood backing up behind a failing heart.
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