2.2.2 Acute Inflammation and Wound Healing II Flashcards
Would you say this chest x-ray is normal or abnormal?
Abnormal
What types of patients are most likely at risk for aspiration pneumonia?
Older patients with dementia
Which microorganisms most often cause clinical disease in otherwise healthy patients (so-called community-acquired pneumonia)? Name a few common organisms.
Streptococcus pneumonae, bacteria, e. coli, staph aureus
Why is it important to give the proper anti-microbial drug as early as possible in the course of acute pneumonia?
Give the macrophages as much time as possible to clean up fibrin to keep the fibroblasts from coming in and laying down collagen and scarring the lung.
What is this an image of?
Lung vessel with WBC pavementing. Characteristic of Acute pneumonia.
What is this an image of (referring to the right side of picture)?
Lung tissue with fibrin deposition and neutrophil infiltration - characteristic of acute pneumonia
What are these images characteristic of? What is within the blue rings?
Acute pneumonia not community acquired, due to hematogenous spread. Cavitary lesions with staph aureus within.
Do antibiotics work with patients with HIV?
If they have a somewhat function immune system. If it is depressed and there is no immune system they wont do jack.
What is this an image of in the liver?
Enlarged bile duct in the liver that is not functioning as normal due to scarring of the liver
What is this in the liver?
High levels of adipose tissue characteristic of cirrhosis
What are the dark staining pink regions on this section of liver?
Mallory or alcoholic hyaline
What is this image indicative of in the liver (trichrome staining)?
This is cirrhosis of the liver due to the high amounts of collagen creating scarring of the liver.
A patient with cirrhosis of the liver can present with esophageal bleeding. Why does this occur?
Liver is scarred , portal hypertension pushing fluid out to the abdomen creating dilation of veins - esophageal varicies
What is this an image of?
Fallopian tube that is inflammed due to PID
What is this an image of?
Normal fallopian tube
