Challenger 300 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NURS 621 MEd Challenger Cardio Exam Questions VALVULAR HEART DISEASE 1) A 71-year-old woman with chronic aortic regurgitation complains of worsening dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea, fatigue, and angina. She is anxious because of an unpleasant awareness of her heartbeat. Her cardiac silhouette is enlarged, with uncoiling and enlargement of the aortic root seen on chest x-ray. She has a widened pulse pressure, rapidly rising and falling carotid pulse, spontaneous nail-bed pulsations, and a ...