What Is the Correct Explanation for How Cardiac Tamponade Can

question 52

Multiple Choice

What is the correct explanation for how cardiac tamponade can affect the heart?

• A)It causes a prolapsed mitral valve, one whose flaps extend back into the left atrium, causing incompetence (leaking) of the valve.
• B)It causes blood to not only eject forward into the aorta but also regurgitate back into the left ventricle because of a leaky aortic semilunar valve.
• C)It is a compression of the heart that impairs its pumping action and makes immediate pericardial drainage necessary.
• D)It is a delayed inflammatory response to streptococcal infection that results in stenosis or other deformities of the valves, chordae tendineae, or myocardium.

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