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
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Microfocal cardiosclerosis
- Recurrent myocardial infarction
- Postinfarction cardiosclerosis
- Continuously recurrent myocardial infarction
Correct answer
Acute myocardial infarction
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