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Aortic valve incompetence may cause

A. Increase in arterial pulse pressure.

B. Systolic murmurs in the aortic valve area.

C. Hypertrophy of left ventricular muscle.

D. Decreased myocardial blood flow.

E. Left ventricular ***.

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A. True Diastolic pressure is abnormally low due to regurgitation of aortic blood into the left ventricle in diastole.

B. False Blood regurgitating in diastole causes diastolic turbulence.

C. True The greater ** volume needed to compensate for regurgitating blood increases ventricular workload.

D. False Flow increases as ventricular work increases.

E. True A persistent increase in ventricular workload can lead to ventricular ***.

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