KROK 1 2016 – Question 184 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
During pathomorphological renal investigation of a patient, who for a long time had been suffering from osteomyelitis and died of progressing renal failure, the following was revealed: deposits of homogeneous eosinophilic masses in glomerular mesangium, arterial and arteriolar walls, and stroma, which colored red when stained with Congo red. What pathological process is this?
- A. Hyalinosis
- B. Carbohydrate degeneration
- C. Amyloidosis
- D. Mucoid swelling
- E. Calcinosis
Hint
Link the special stain reaction, the chronic suppurative disease in the history and the extracellular deposits in glomeruli and vessel walls.
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