Causes
Water hammer pulse is commonly found when a patient has in aortic regurgitation. A more comprehensive list of causes follows:
1. Physiological
- Fever
- Pregnancy
2. Cardiac lesions
- Aortic regurgitation
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Systolic hypertension
- Bradycardia
- Aortopulmonary window
- Rupture of sinus of Valsalva into heart chambers
3. Syndromes or High output states
- Anemia
- Cor pulmonale
- Cirrhosis of liver
- Beriberi
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Arteriovenous fistula
- Paget's disease
4. Other causes
- Chronic alcoholism
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