Blood Vessel Pathology Flashcards
Most common site for varicose veins
Superficial Saphenous veins
Disappearance of pulse when the arm is outstretched and the patient looks to the side of the outstretched arm
Adson test in Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
What are the 2 large vessel arteritis?
Temporal and Takayasu
Pulseless disease
Takayasu Arteritis
FAN MY SKIN On Wed
fever, arthritis, night sweats, myalgia, skin nodules, ocular disturbances, weak pulses on UE
Most common form of systemic vasculitis in adults
Temporal Arteritis
segmental transmural necrotizing inflammation of small to medium-sized arteries, sparing the pulmonary arteries
Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN)
Most common acquired heart disease in children associated with Mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
Kawasaki Disease
(fever, conjunctival hemorrhage, edema of hands of feet, erythema of palms and soles, skin rash with desquamation, lymph node enlargement)
Affects smaller blood vessels with lesions of the same age, and does not spare the pulmonary blood vessels
Microscopic polyangitis/polyarteritis
Associated with bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis, eosiniphilia, spares the renal vessels
Churg-Strauss Syndrome
allergic granulomatosis and angiitis
Triad of Wegener Granulomatosis
- Necrotizing granulomas (nasopharynx-central necrosis & accompanying)
- Necrotizing vasculitis (lungs)
- necrotizing glomerulitis
Associated with patients less than 35 years old, M>F, smoking presenting. Morphology: sharply segmental acute and chronic vasculitis of medium sized and small arteri; thrombus with microabscesses.
Resting pain of forefoot
Thromboangtiitis Obliterans
pallor or cyanosis of hands, feet, nose and ears due to cold induced vasoconstriction
Reynaud Phenomenon
White-Blue-Red
Largest single type of vascular tumor; closely packed, thin walled capillaries
Capillary Hemangioma
staghorn vascular pattern microscopically believed to be derived from pericytes with fleshy or spongy consistency
Hemangiopericytoma
