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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 specks against the brown-tinted background of the 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 occurred in the patient’s liver?

Answer options

  1. Hepatic steatosis
  2. Nutmeg liver
  3. Amyloidosis
  4. Pseudonutmeg liver
  5. Hepatic cirrhosis
Correct answer

Nutmeg liver

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