KROK 1 2008 – Question 145 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A 20 year old patient died from intoxication 8 days after artificial illegal abortion performed in her 14-15th week of pregnancy. Autopsy of the corpse revealed yellowish colour of eye sclera and of skin, necrotic suppurative endometritis, multiple pulmonary abscesses, spleen hyperplasia with a big number of neutrophils in its sinuses. What complication after abortion was developed?
- A. Chroniosepsis
- B. Hemorrhagic shock
- C. Septicemia
- D. Septicopyemia
- E. Viral hepatitis type A
Hint
Compare the forms of sepsis listed and look in the autopsy description for the features that separate them, in particular what the lesions in distant organs are.
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