KROK 1 2009 – Question 16 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A 70-year-old patient suffers from atherosclerosis complicated by the lower limb thrombosis that has caused gangrene on his left toes. What is the most likely cause of the thrombosis origin?
- A. Transformation of fibrinogen into fibrin
- B. Impaired heparin synthesis
- C. Prothrombinase activation
- D. Transformation of prothrombin into thrombin
- E. Thrombocyte adhesion
Hint
Ask which initiating event in arterial thrombosis is triggered by damaged endothelium, before the plasma coagulation cascade is involved.
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