KROK 1 2016 – Question 52 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 63-year-old man, who has been suffering from chronic fibrous-cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis for 24 years, has been delivered to a nephrology department with uremia. Intravital diagnostic test for amyloid in the kidneys was positive. What amyloidosis is it in this case?
- A. Senile
- B. Primary systemic
- C. Hereditary (genetic)
- D. Localized (focal)
- E. Secondary systemic
Hint
Look at what has been going on in this patient's body for 24 years and ask which category of amyloidosis such a background produces.
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