KROK 1 2010 – Question 94 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient ill with thrombophlebitis of his lower limbs had chest pain, blood spitting, progressing respiratory insufficiency that led to his death. Autopsy diagnosed multiple lung infarctions. What is the most probable cause of their development?
- A. Thrombosis of pulmonary artery branches
- B. Thromboembolism of bronchial arteries
- C. Thromboembolism of pulmonary artery branches
- D. Thrombosis of pulmonary veins
- E. Thrombosis of bronchial arteries
Hint
Trace the thrombus from the diseased leg veins through the venous return and the right heart, and ask which vessels of the lung it would reach and what a sudden blockage there does.
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