KROK 1 2011 – Question 15 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man who died from chronic cardiovascular collapse revealed "tiger heart". Sidewards of endocardium a yellowish-white banding can be seen; myocardium is dull, dark-yellow. What process caused this pathology?
- A. Fatty parenchymatous degeneration
- B. Hyaline degeneration
- C. Amyloidosis
- D. Carbohydrate degeneration
- E. Fatty vascular-stromal degeneration
Hint
Ask which kind of intracellular metabolic change in chronic hypoxia gives the heart a dull yellow colour and a striped, tiger-like pattern under the endocardium.
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