A man with a wound of his limb that had been suppurating for a long time died from intioxication. Autopsy revealed extreme emaciation, dehydration, brown atrophy of liver, myocardium, spleen and cross-striated muscles as well as renal amyloidosis. What diagnosis corresponds with the described picture?

Answer options

1. Brucellosis
2. Septicemia
3. Chernogubov’s syndrome
4. Septicopyemia
5. Chroniosepsis

Explanation

Chronic sepsis (chroniosepsis) is a form of sepsis characterized by durable availability, not the healing of primary septic focus that progresses into a chronic one. In organs and tissues, atrophy and dehydration are expressed. Brown atrophy is found in the liver, myocardium, and striated muscles. The spleen is also decreased.