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Autopsy of a man who died from chronic cardiovascular collapse revealed "tiger heart". Sidewards of endocardium a yellowish-white banding can be seen; myocardium is dull, dark-yellow. What process caused this pathology?

Answer options

  1. Fatty parenchymatous degeneration
  2. Fatty vascular-stromal degeneration
  3. Carbohydrate degeneration
  4. Hyaline degeneration
  5. Amyloidosis
Correct answer

Fatty parenchymatous degeneration

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