36-year-old man dies during cardiac surgery. He had a history of long-standing rheumatic heart disease with mitral stenosis. At autopsy, the pathologist reports findings consistent with mitral stenosis and noted the presence of ‘heart failure cells’. This finding results from ( ).
选项：

A:activation of the coagulation cascade;
B:chronic passive congestion of the lungs;
C:hypoxic myocardial injury;
D:myocardial hyperemia;
E:hyperemia of the lungs