KROK 1 2015 – Question 51 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Poisoning caused by mercury (II) chloride (corrosive sublimate) occurred in the result of safety rules violation. In 2 days the patient’s diurnal diuresis became 620 ml. The patient developed headache, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnea; moist crackles are observed in the lungs. Name this pathology:
- A. Pyelonephritis
- B. Chronic renal failure
- C. Uremic coma
- D. Glomerulonephritis
- E. Acute renal failure
Hint
Consider the time course (only two days) and the fall in urine output after a nephrotoxic poison, and name the syndrome this denotes rather than its latest stage.
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