HomeKROK Question Archive
Exam questionKROK 1Dentistry ยท 2014

A 64-year-old male patient died with symptoms of acute cardiovascular failure. Autopsy results: the section of the anterior wall of the left ventricle showed a yellowish flaccid 1,5-2 cm focus surrounded by a reddish rim. The convoluted coronary arteries had lumen irregularly narrowed by 75%. The vessel intima was thickened, dense, covered with whitish plaques, crunched when cut. What disease can you think of?

Answer options

  1. Acute myocardial infarction
  2. Microfocal cardiosclerosis
  3. Recurrent myocardial infarction
  4. Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
  5. Continuously recurrent myocardial infarction
Correct answer

Acute myocardial infarction

This educational archive is provided by KROKEXAM and is not an official testing authority publication.