KROK 1 2023 – Question 98 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body of a patient who died with signs of cardiopulmonary failure shows deformed bronchi with sack-like protrusions of the bronchial wall and purulent inflammation. Hypertrophy of the right ventricle was detected in the heart. Amyloidosis can be observed in the kidneys. The patient’s history indicates that for the last 8 years the patient complained of asphyxia and cough with purulent sputum, the patient’s fingers resembled drumsticks. What disease can be characterized by these pathological changes?
- A. Abscess
- B. Acute bronchitis
- C. Bronchiectasis
- D. Chronic bronchitis
- E. Tuberculosis
Hint
Years of cough with purulent sputum, clubbed fingers, saccular airway deformity, cor pulmonale and secondary renal amyloidosis point to one chronic suppurative lung disease.
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