Exam questionKROK 1Medicine · 2020
A patient died with signs of heart failure. Autopsy shows the following postinfarction cardiosclerosis, cardiac hypertrophy and dilated cardiac chambers. The liver is enlarged, has smooth surface is plethoric on section, covered in dark red species against the brown tinted background of tissue. Histologically the central veins of the hepatic lobules are plethoric; there is erythrocyte diapedesis into the perivascular space. Central hepatocytes are dystrophic, while peripheral hepatocytes are enlarged and affected by fatty degeneration. What process is occurred in the patient’s liver?
Answer options
- Pseudonutmeg liver
- Hepatic steatosis
- Hepatic cirrhosis
- Amyloidosis
- Nutmeg liver
Correct answer
Nutmeg liver
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