Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2004
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
- Acute rheumatic valvulitis
- Septicopyemia
- Septicemia
- Rheumatic thromboendocarditis
- Septic bacterial endocarditis
Correct answer
Septic bacterial endocarditis
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