KROK 1 2011 – Question 111 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient presents with icteritiousness of skin, scleras and mucous membranes. Blood plasma the total bilirubin is increased, stercobilin is increased in feces, urobilin is increased in urine. What type of jaundice is it?
- A. Cholestatic
- B. Haemolytic
- C. Parenchymatous
- D. Obturational
- E. Gilbert’s disease
Hint
Follow the bilirubin pathway and ask at which step a load of pigment would raise its end-products in both the gut and the urine.
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