Aortic valve incompetence may cause

 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 stroke 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 failure.