KROK 1 2016 – Question 166 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
Patient’s systolic blood pressure is 90 mm Hg, diastolic - 70 mm Hg. Such blood pressure is caused by decrease of the following factor:
- A. Vascular tone
- B. Pumping ability of the right heart
- C. Aortic compliance
- D. Pumping ability of the left heart
- E. Total peripheral resistance
Hint
Ask which of the two readings is abnormal and whether stroke volume or vessel resistance is the main determinant of that reading.
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