KROK 1 2021 – Question 26 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of the body of a woman revealed the following morphologic changes: stenosis of the atrioventricular opening, mitral insufficiency. Histologically there are focal cardiosclerosis and «blooming» Aschoff nodules in the myocardium. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- A. Scleroderma
- B. Dermatomyositis
- C. Systemic lupus erythematosus
- D. Rheumatism
- E. Polyarteritis nodosa
Hint
Match two findings, a characteristic proliferative nodule in the myocardium and a chronic combined mitral valve defect, to the one systemic disease in the list that is known to damage the heart in this way.
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