How Heart failure causes leg swelling ?
Leg swelling causes and diagnosis for medical and nursing students
Factors controlloing fluid movements include
1-Hydrostatic pressure, which is the pressure of the fluid.
2-Osmotic (oncotic) pressure, which represents the osmotic force created by albumen that do not cross the capillary membrane.
Filtration is the movement of fluid from the plasma into the interstitium.
Absorption is movement of fluid from the interstitium into the plasma.
peripheral edema is divided into pitting edema and non-pitting edema
pulmonary edema is divided into cardiogenic pulmonary edema which respond to diuretics and npn-cardiogrnic edema
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