KROK 1 2011 – Question 56 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A man with a wound of his limb that had been suppurating for a long time died from intoxication. Autopsy revealed extreme emaciation, dehydration, brown atrophy of liver, myocardium, spleen and cross-striated muscles as well as renal amyloidosis. What diagnosis corresponds with the described presentations?
- A. Brucellosis
- B. Septicemia
- C. Septicopyemia
- D. Chroniosepsis
- E. Chernogubov’s syndrome
Hint
Decide first whether this is a rapidly fatal or a protracted course of generalised infection from a persistent primary focus, then weigh the organ changes of exhaustion and amyloid deposition.
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