KROK 1 2017 – Question 60 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
During autopsy of a man, who had been suffering from mitral stenosis, the lungs are revealed to be dense and brown-colored. What pathologic process had occurred in the lungs?
- A. Lipofuscinosis
- B. Hemosiderosis
- C. Hemochromatosis
- D. Hemomelanosis
- E. Jaundice
Hint
Think about what chronic backward pressure from a narrowed valve does to red cells in the alveolar capillaries and what lung macrophages then do with the cells they ingest.
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