KROK 1 2007 – Question 147 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
A child’s blood presents high content of galactose, glucose concentration is low. There are such presentations as cataract, mental deficiency, adipose degeneration of liver. What disease is it?
- A. Diabetes mellitus
- B. Lactosemia
- C. Fructosemia
- D. Steroid diabetes
- E. Galactosemia
Hint
Consider an inherited block in the conversion of a milk-sugar component into glucose, whose by-products accumulate in the lens, liver and brain.
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