KROK 1 2009 – Question 58 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 73-year-old man who had been suffering from the coronary heart disease along with cardiac insufficiency for a long time revealed: nutmeg liver, brown induration of lungs, cyanotic induration of kidneys and spleen. What kind of circulation disorder was the cause of such effects?
- A. General acute venous congestion
- B. Arterial hyperaemia
- C. Acute anaemia
- D. Chronic anaemia
- E. General chronic venous congestion
Hint
Combine the duration of the cardiac disease with the organ changes, pigmented firm lungs and a mottled liver, and ask whether the problem is inflow or outflow, local or systemic.
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