KROK 1 2019 – Question 47 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 14-year-old adolescent has diphtheria. During the peak of the disease against the background of acute drop in body temperature and tachycardia the blood pressure is 70/50 mm Hg. What type of vascular tone disturbance is it?
- A. Chronic hypotension
- B. Acute hypotension
- C. Somatoform autonomic dysfunction
- D. Essential hypotension
- E. -
Hint
Consider the speed of onset and the expected duration of the pressure drop, together with the toxic infectious setting in which it appears.
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