KROK 1 2015 – Question 45 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 43-year-old-patient has arterial hypertension caused by increase in cardiac output and general peripheral resistance. Specify the variant of hemodynamic development of arterial hypertension in the given case:
- A. Eukinetic
- B. Hyperkinetic
- C. Hypokinetic
- D. Combined
- E. -
Hint
Recall how hypertensive haemodynamics are classified, which rests on what happens to cardiac output and to total peripheral resistance.
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