KROK 1 2018 – Question 188 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body of an elderly man revealed yellow spots and streaks in the aortic intima and white-yellow protruding plaques in the area of aortic bifurcation. Microscopy (with hematoxylin and eosin staining) shows round cavities in the thickened aortic intima. The cavities color orange when stained with sudan 3 and are surrounded with overgrown connective tissue. What process developed in the aortic intima?
- A. Metabolic disorder of neutral fat
- B. Systemic hyalinosis
- C. Secondary amyloidosis
- D. Local hyalinosis
- E. Metabolic disorder of cholesterol and cholesterol ethers
Hint
Identify the vascular disease from the plaques at the aortic bifurcation, then ask which lipid class accumulates in the intima in that disease.
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