KROK 1 2012 – Question 87 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 38 year old man died all of a sudden. Autopsy revealed myocardial infarction in the posterior wall of the left ventricle. What are the most likely alterations in myocardiocyte structure that can be revealed microscopically in the infarction focus?
- A. Carbohydrate degeneration
- B. Calcification
- C. Protein degeneration
- D. Adipose degeneration
- E. Karyolysis
Hint
Think about the stage of cell injury reached in the core of an infarct, reversible dystrophy or irreversible death, and how the nucleus shows it.
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