KROK 1 2020 – Question 55 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient who for a long time was suffering from rheumatism and had mitral stenosis died of cardiopulmonary failure. Autopsy revealed brown induration of the lungs. What circulatory disorder leads to such changes in the lungs?
- A. Portal hypertension
- B. Chronic right ventricular failure
- C. Acute left ventricular failure
- D. Acute right ventricular failure
- E. Chronic left ventricular failure
Hint
Trace where blood would back up behind a narrowed mitral valve, and ask whether the rise in pressure is sudden or sustained over years.
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