KROK 1 2012 – Question 15 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 58 year old man revealed that bicuspid valve was deformed, thickened and unclosed. Microscopically: foci of collagen fibrilla are eosinophilic, react positively to fibrin. The most probably it is:
- A. Amyloidosis
- B. Hyalinosis
- C. Fibrinous inflammation
- D. Fibrinoid swelling
- E. Mucoid swelling
Hint
Ask what has happened to the collagen fibres of this valve, and compare reversible changes of the ground substance with irreversible destruction of the fibres themselves.
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