KROK 1 2017 – Question 61 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Examination of the coronary arteries revealed atherosclerotic plaques with calcinosis that close the arterial opening by 1/3. In the muscle there are numerous whitish layers of connective tissue. Name the process detected in the myocardium:
- A. Myocardial infarction
- B. Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
- C. Tiger heart
- D. Diffuse cardiosclerosis
- E. Myocarditis
Hint
Consider the pattern of fibrous tissue that chronic, slowly progressive ischaemia from narrowed coronary arteries produces in the muscle, and how it differs from the aftermath of an acute event.
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