KROK 1 Stomatology 2014 – Question 48 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 28-year-old patient had been diagnosed with multifragmental fracture of the right hip. On the third day after the injury he began to complain of pain in the right side of chest, difficult respiration. A day later the patient died of progressive heart and respiratory failure. Histological study of pulmonary and cerebral blood vessels revealed orange sudanophilic droplets that completely obstructed the vessels of microvasculature. What complication caused the death of the patient?
- A. Gas embolism
- B. Fat embolism
- C. Microbial embolism
- D. Drug-induced embolism
- E. Thromboembolism
Hint
Link the type of injury (fracture of a large long bone) with what Sudan dyes stain inside the obstructed microvessels.
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