KROK 1 2011 – Question 6 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Extensive thromboembolic infarction of the left cerebral hemispheres, large septic spleen, immunocomplex glomerulonephritis, ulcers on the edges of the aortic valves, covered with polypous thrombus with colonies of staphylococcus were revealed on autopsy of the young man who died in coma. What disease caused cerebral thromboemboly?
- A. Septicopyemia
- B. Septic bacterial endocarditis
- C. Acute rheumatic valvulitis
- D. Septicemia
- E. Rheumatic thromboendocarditis
Hint
Link the valve ulcers carrying colonies of microbes with the embolic infarcts, the large spleen and the immune-complex kidney injury, and ask which single process explains all of them.
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