KROK 1 2020 – Question 4 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
After an out-of-hospital abortion, a woman developed progressing purulent endomyometritis, of which she died. Autopsy of the body revealed numerous pulmonary abscesses, small subcapsular pustules in the kidneys, splenic hyperplasia. What type of sepsis developed in the woman?
- A. Septicopyemia
- B. Septicemia
- C. Urosepsis
- D. Chroniosepsis
- E. Pulmonary sepsis
Hint
Match the morphology to the classification of sepsis, looking at the nature of the primary focus and whether distant lesions are pus-forming metastases or only toxic and dystrophic changes.
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