KROK 1 2010 – Question 45 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Examination of coronary arteries revealed atherosclerotic calcified plaques closing vessel lumen by 1/3. The muscle has multiple whitish layers of connective tissue. What process was revealed in the myocardium?
- A. Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
- B. Tiger heart
- C. Diffusive cardiosclerosis
- D. Myocarditis
- E. Myocardium infarction
Hint
Ask what a chronic, partial reduction of coronary blood flow does to the myocardium over time, and how that differs from the result of a sudden complete occlusion.
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