KROK 1 Stomatology 2014 – Question 171 · KROK (Dentistry)
A 64-year-old male patient died with symptoms of acute cardiovascular failure. Autopsy results: the section of the anterior wall of the left ventricle showed a yellowish flaccid 1.5–2 cm focus surrounded by a reddish rim. The convoluted coronary arteries had lumen irregularly narrowed by 75%. The vessel intima was thickened, dense, covered with whitish plaques, crunched when cut. What disease can you think of?
- A. Acute myocardial infarction
- B. Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
- C. Recurrent myocardial infarction
- D. Continuously recurrent myocardial infarction
- E. Microfocal cardiosclerosis
Hint
Look at the gross appearance of the myocardial focus: a soft yellow center with a red hemorrhagic rim tells you the age of the lesion.
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