KROK 1 2013 – Question 56 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 78-year-old patient revealed that retroperitoneal tissue was soaked with blood, the abdominal aorta had a sacciform protrusion including a defect with irregular edges. The wall of the aorta was here and there of stone-like density. This is the complication of the following disease:
- A. Essential hypertension
- B. Marfan syndrome
- C. Atherosclerosis
- D. Systemic vasculitis
- E. Visceral syphilis
Hint
Ask which common disease of old age damages the wall of the abdominal aorta and also accounts for the stony-hard patches in it, rather than diseases that favour the thoracic aorta.
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