I had a question about aortic regurg and the compensation that occurs as a result:
a) increase in preload
b) left ventricular (concentric) hypertrophy
The answer was A)
With regurg, blood is entering back into the left ventricle, so you'd have volume overload, and I reasoned that the heart would hypertrophy to pump the volume overloaded heart.
The increase in preload I though as a process that occurs naturally as a result of the backflow of blood... not as a compensatory one.
a) increase in preload
b) left ventricular (concentric) hypertrophy
The answer was A)
With regurg, blood is entering back into the left ventricle, so you'd have volume overload, and I reasoned that the heart would hypertrophy to pump the volume overloaded heart.
The increase in preload I though as a process that occurs naturally as a result of the backflow of blood... not as a compensatory one.
