KROK 1 2013 – Question 177 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
After the prolonged vomiting a pregnant 26-year-old woman was found to have the reduced volume of circulating blood. What change in the total blood volume can be the case?
- A. Oligocythemic hypovolemia
- B. Simple hypovolemia
- C. Polycythemic hypovolemia
- D. Polycythemic hypervolemia
- E. Oligocythemic hypervolemia
Hint
Consider whether prolonged vomiting removes mainly water and electrolytes or whole blood, and what that does to the proportion of cells in the remaining blood.
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