KROK 1 2007 – Question 123 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
Violation of safety rules resulted in calomel intoxication. Two days later the daily diuresis was 620 ml. A patient experienced headache, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnea, moist rales in lungs. What pathology is it?
- A. Uraemic coma
- B. Chronic renal insufficiency
- C. Glomerulonephritis
- D. Pyelonephritis
- E. Acute renal insufficiency
Hint
Mercury salts damage the tubular epithelium; consider whether a fall in urine output with fluid overload and uraemic signs within two days is a sudden or a slowly progressive process.
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