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Extensive thromboembolic infarction of the left cerebral hemispheres, large septic spleen, immunocomplex glomerulonephritis, ulcers on the edges of the aortic valves, covered with polypous thrombus with colonies of staphylococcus were revealed on autopsy of the young man who died in coma. What disease caused cerebral thromboemboly?

Answer options

  1. Rheumatic thromboendocarditis
  2. Acute rheumatic valvulitis
  3. Septicemia
  4. Septicopyemia
  5. Septic bacterial endocarditis
Correct answer

Septic bacterial endocarditis

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