KROK 1 2012 – Question 94 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A disaster fighter at a nuclear power plant developed hemorrhagic syndrome on the background of acute radiation disease. What is the most important factor of syndrome pathogenesis?
- A. Thrombocytopenia
- B. Vascular wall damage
- C. Increased activity of fibrinolysis factors
- D. Increased activity of anticoagulative system factors
- E. Decreased activity of coagulative factors
Hint
Radiation primarily injures rapidly dividing tissues such as bone marrow; ask which haemostatic disturbance follows most directly from that and which ones are secondary.
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