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A 44-Year-Old Woman with Severe Cardiac Failure Caused by Coronary

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A 44-year-old woman with severe cardiac failure caused by coronary artery disease was treated by cardiac transplantation. Three months after surgery, she developed a bleeding duodenal ulcer and lost approximately 600 ml of blood in one hour. She was treated with dietary changes and antibiotics and the ulcer was healed in about two weeks. The acute blood loss from the patient's duodenal ulcer would be expected to:


A) Decrease central venous pressure and increase cardiac output
B) Increase central venous pressure and decrease mean arterial pressure
C) Decrease central venous pressure and decrease cardiac output
D) Increase mean arterial pressure and decrease cardiac output
E) Decrease central venous pressure and increase aortic pulse pressure

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