KROK 1 2015 – Question 100 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
During intravenous saline transfusion a patient’s condition deteriorated drastically, and the patient died from asphyxiation. Autopsy revealed acute venous congestion of internal organs with sharp right heart dilatation. When the right ventricle was punctured underwater, the bubbles escaped. What pathological process occurred in the patient?
- A. Thromboembolism
- B. Adipose embolism
- C. Gaseous embolism
- D. Tissue embolism
- E. Air embolism
Hint
Ask where the bubbles in the right ventricle came from in this patient, and whether they entered from outside or formed inside the blood because of a pressure change.
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