Blood vessels 1

Question 1

What are the storage organelles for vWF?

Answer 1

Weibel-Palade bodies in ECs

Question 2

Subtype of arteriosclerosis involving fibro-fatty plaques forming on intima

Answer 2

atherosclerosis

Question 3

Subtype of arteriosclerosis involving calcification in the media of muscular arteries especially radial/ulnar

Answer 3

Monckeberg medial sclerosis

Question 4

Hyaline thickening of small arteries due to essential HTN or DM

Answer 4

Hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 5

Onion skinning of artery in malignant HTN

Answer 5

Hyperplastic arteriosclerosis

Question 6

Subtype of arteriosclerosis affecting elastic arteries and large muscular arteries. Spares pulmonary artery.

Answer 6

Atherosclerosis

Question 7

Oxidation of LDL results in

Answer 7

foam cells
release of growth factors
endotheliotoxicity

Question 8

Cells that secrete toxins which oxidize LDL

Answer 8

Macrophages

Question 9

Microbes associated with infections in atherosclerosis

Answer 9

CMV, herpesvirus, chlamydia

Question 10

Precursor lesion of atherosclerosis and present as early as newborns

Answer 10

fatty streaks

No clinical significance, p

Question 11

lipid filled macrophages

Answer 11

foam cells

Question 12

The basic lesion consists of central core of lipids covered by white fibrous cap

Answer 12

atheroma

Question 13

Atheroma complication that induces thrombosis

Answer 13

rupture and ulceration of atheroma

Question 14

Atheroma complication producing microemboli

Answer 14

cholesterol embolization of atheroma

Question 15

Disease of aging (arteries)

Answer 15

Monckeberg medial sclerosis

Question 16

Arteriosclerosis subtype that does not produce obstruction

Answer 16

Monckeberg

Monckeberg Media Muscular

Question 17

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with benign HTN

Answer 17

hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 18

Pipestem arteries

Answer 18

Monckeberg

Question 19

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with onion-skin arterioles

Answer 19

hyperplastic arteriosclerosis

Question 20

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with fibrinoid necrosis

Answer 20

hyperplastic arteriosclerosis

Question 21

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with nephrosclerosis

Answer 21

hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 22

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with renal problems

Answer 22

hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 23

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with scleroderma

Answer 23

hyperplastic arteriosclerosis

Question 24

Subtype of arteriosclerosis associated with renal problems

Answer 24

hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 25

Subtype of arteriosclerosis which is more common in blacks than whites

Answer 25

hyaline arteriosclerosis

Question 26

Large spherical aneurysm

Answer 26

saccular

Question 27

Double-barreled aorta is a result of

Answer 27

aortic dissection

Question 28

This causes weakening of the aorta through vasa vasorum

Answer 28

syphilitic aneurysm

Question 29

Aneurysm caused by infection

Answer 29

mycotic

Question 30

Aneurysm caused by blood separating the layers of the blood vessel wall

Answer 30

aortic dissection

Question 31

Aneurysm found at circle of Willis has this shape

Answer 31

berry

Question 32

Associated with cystic medial degeneration

Answer 32

aortic dissection

Question 33

Where are abdominal aortic aneurysms usually found

Answer 33

below renal a, above iliac a bifurcation

Question 34

Causes obstruction of coronary ostia (root)

Answer 34

syphilitic aneurysm

Question 35

Pulsatile mass with back pain and severe abdominal pain could indicate:

Answer 35

imminent rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm

Question 36

Tear creating false longitudinal lumen

Answer 36

aortic dissection (this is just a different way to describe)

Question 37

Proteases responsible for degradation of ECM, causing familial aneurysms

Answer 37

matrix metalloproteinases MMP

Question 38

Tearing chest pain radiating to the back and downwards

Answer 38

aortic dissection

Question 39

Tree-barking of aorta

Answer 39

syphilitic aneurysm

Question 40

A ruptured berry aneurysm forms what kind of brain hemorrhage?

Answer 40

subarachnoid

Question 41

False cysts replacing normal elastic tissue observed in

Answer 41

aortic dissection