KROK 1 2013 – Question 184 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient with extensive myocardial infarction has developed heart failure. What pathogenetic mechanism contributed to the development of heart failure in the patient?
- A. Reduction in the mass of functioning myocardiocytes
- B. Volume overload
- C. Pressure overload
- D. Acute cardiac tamponade
- E. Myocardial reperfusion injury
Hint
Consider the primary pathogenetic route by which a large area of ischaemic necrosis limits the pumping capacity of the heart.
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