KROK 1 2020 – Question 105 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient has ascites, his spleen is double the normal size, he has esophageal and rectal varices. Histology of the biopsy material obtained from the liver revealed micronodular cirrhosis. What complicated the hepatic cirrhosis in this case?
- A. Hepatocellular dysfunction
- B. Budd-Chiari syndrome
- C. Portal hypertension
- D. Heart failure
- E. Hepatolienal syndrome
Hint
Consider what happens to flow through the cirrhotic liver and how the resulting back-pressure explains ascites, a large spleen and dilated collateral veins.
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