KROK 1 2013 – Question 121 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
During the intravenous transfusion of the saline the patient’s condition deteriorated dramatically, and the patient died from asphyxiation. Autopsy revealed acute venous congestion of internal organs with the dramatic right heart dilatation. When the right ventricle was punctured underwater, the bubbles escaped. What pathological process occurred in the patient?
- A. Thromboembolism
- B. Air embolism
- C. Gaseous embolism
- D. Adipose embolism
- E. Tissue embolism
Hint
Consider what could have entered a vein during an infusion, and what the bubbles escaping from the punctured right ventricle under water reveal about the material that blocked the heart.
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