KROK 1 2012 – Question 63 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man who died from ethylene glycol poisoning revealed that his kidneys are a little bit enlarged, edematic; their capsule can be easily removed. Cortical substance is broad and light-grey. Medullary substance is dark-red. What pathology had this man?
- A. Acute pyelonephritis
- B. Acute tubular-interstitial nephritis
- C. Lipoid nephrosis
- D. Acute glomerulonephritis
- E. Necrotic nephrosis
Hint
Ask which structure in the kidney is hit directly by a circulating toxin, and what a broad pale cortex with a congested medulla says about where the damage lies.
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