KROK 1 2008 – Question 83 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Skin of a man who died from cardiac insufficiency has an eruption in form of spots and specks. There are also bedsores in the area of sacrum and spinous vertebral processes. Microscopical examination of CNS, skin, adrenal glands revealed in the vessels of microcirculatory bed and in small arteries destructive-proliferative endothrombovasculitis with Popov’s granulomas; interstitial myocarditis. What diagnosis corresponds with the described picture?
- A. Enteric fever
- B. Q fever
- C. HIV
- D. Spotted fever
- E. Nodular periarteritis
Hint
Popov's granulomas are glial nodules around damaged small brain vessels. Find the generalised infectious vasculitis of the smallest vessels with a skin rash; the other diseases have different main targets.
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