KROK 1 2010 – Question 159 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
A patient had been suffering from profuse diarrhea and vomiting for 2 days. He died from acute dehydration. Autopsy revealed that the intestinal wall was edematic and hyperemic, with multiple haemorrhages in the mucous membrane. Intestine lumen contains whitish fluid resembling of rice water. What disease caused death?
- A. Typhoid fever
- B. Salmonellosis
- C. Dysentery
- D. Enterocolitis
- E. Cholera
Hint
Consider the character of the intestinal contents and the speed of fluid loss, and decide whether the mechanism is mucosal invasion or toxin-induced secretion.
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