KROK 1 2007 – Question 17 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a man who died from chronic cardiovascular collapse revealed "tiger heart". Sidewards of endocardium a yellowish-white banding can be seen; myocardium is dull, dark-yellow. What process caused this pathology?
- A. Amyloidosis
- B. Carbohydrate degeneration
- C. Fatty vascular-stromal degeneration
- D. Hyaline degeneration
- E. Fatty parenchymatous degeneration
Hint
Think about what accumulates in the cardiomyocytes in zones of worst hypoxia, around the venous ends of capillaries, to make a striped yellow pattern against dull muscle.
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