KROK 1 2010 – Question 62 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 56 year old patient suffering from cardiac insufficiency has edema of feet and shins, edematous skin is pale and cold. What is the leading mechanism of edema pathogenesis?
- A. Positive water balance
- B. Rise of hydrostatic pressure in venules
- C. Increase of capillary permeability
- D. Disorder of lymph outflow
- E. Drop of oncotic pressure in capillaries
Hint
Ask how impaired pumping of the heart affects blood return from the legs, and which of the Starling forces across the capillary wall is changed first.
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