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Cell Adaptation, Injury, and Death Flashcards

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What are 3 cellular mechanisms of hypertrophy?

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  1. Gene activation
  2. Protein synthesis
  3. Production of organelles
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What is the mechanism for hyperplasia?

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Production of new cells from stem cells

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When do hyperplasia and hypertrophy occur together?

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Uterus - pregnancy

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Permanent tissue can only undergo _________.

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Hypertrophy

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What are 3 main permanent tissue?

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  1. Cardiac myocytes
  2. Skeletal muscle
  3. Nerves
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Pathologic hyperplasia can lead to cancer. What is the exception?

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BPH

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Atrophy

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A decrease in size and number of cells

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By what mechanisms does atrophy occur?

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  1. Ubiquitin-proteosome degradation of cytoskeleton
  2. Autophagy of cellular components -vacuoles/ lysosomes
  3. Apoptosis
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Metaplasia

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Change in cell type to handle stress

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Barrett Esophagus

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Change of esophageal squamous epithelium to columnar (non-ciliated, mucinous) epithelium of stomach - acid reflux

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How does metaplasia occur?

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Reprogramming stem cells, reversible with removable of driving stressor

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Metaplasia can progress to dysplasia and cancer except for ____________.

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Apocrine metaplasia - seen w/ fibrocystic change of breast

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_________ deficiency can result in metaplasia.

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Vitamin A - necessary for maintenance of specialized epithelium i.e. conjunctiva (squamous thickening keratomalacia)
Night blindness, immune deficient (maturation), metaplasia

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Myositis ossificans

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Mesenchymal tissue metaplasia
Inflammation (trauma) of sk muscle –> Bone
**doesn’t grow off bone

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Dysplasia

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Disordered cellular growth - proliferation of precancerous cells (CIN) - from longstanding pathologic hyperplasia or metaplasia

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Is dysplasia reversible?

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Yes

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If stress persists, what does dysplasia proceed to?

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Carcinoma (irreversible)

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Aplasia

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Failure of cell production during embryogenesis - unilateral renal agenesis

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Hypoplasia

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Dec. in cell production during embryogenesis - small organ - streak ovary in Turner syndrome

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Likelihood of injury depends on what 3 things?

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Stress, severity, and type of cell affected

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What type of cell is most affected by hypoxia?

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Nerve cells

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Hypoxia

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Low oxygen delivery to tissue - Low ATP - cellular injury

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What are the 3 major causes of hypoxia?

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Ischemia, hypoxemia, dec. carrying ability of blood (anemia, CO)

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What are 3 mechanisms of ischemia?

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  1. Block artery
  2. Block hepatic vein - Budd-Chiari Syndrome
  3. Shock
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Hypoxemia

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Low partial pressure of oxygen in the blood (PaO2 < 60 mmHg or SaO2 <90%)

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What are common causes of hypoxemia?

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  1. High altitude,
  2. Inc PACO2 (hypovent, COPD)
  3. Interstitial fibrosis
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Anemia

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Dec in RBC mass

PaO2 normal and SaO2 normal (%)

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CO poisoning

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CO binds Hb more avidly than O2

PaO2 normal, SaO2 decreased - cherry red skin

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Methemoglobinemia

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Iron in heme is oxidized to Fe3+ - can’t bind O2
PaO2 is normal, SaO2 decreased - oxidant stress (sulfa and nitrate drugs) or newborns
Cyanosis w/ chocolate-colored blood - IV methylene blue

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30
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Hypoxia impairs ___________. which results in decreased ATP.

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Oxidative phosphorylation

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What 3 key things does low ATP disrupt.

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  1. Na-K pump (Na/H2O builds up)
  2. Ca pump (Ca builds up in cytosol)
  3. Aerobic glycolysis (lactic acid)
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32
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What are the findings of reversible injury?

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  1. Cellular swelling

2. Loss of microvilli, membrane blebbing and swelling of RER (dec protein synthesis)

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What are the findings of irreversible damage?

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  1. Plasma membrane damage
    ~Ruptured cell, leaking enzymes, and Inc Ca
  2. Mitochondrial membrane damage (Inner membrane) e transport - cytochrome c
  3. Lysosome membrane damage - autophagy
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34
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Morphologic hallmark of cell death is loss of _________.

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Nucleus

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35
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Loss of nucleus can occur via which 3 mechanisms?

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Pyknosis, karyorrhexis, and karyolysis

36
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Pyknosis

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Nucleus shrinks down

37
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Karyorrhexis

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Nucleus breaks down into pieces

38
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Karyolysis

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Nucleus breaks down farther into building blocks

39
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Necrosis

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Death of a large group of cells, followed by acute inflammation

40
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Necrosis is always due to underlying _________ process.

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Pathologic

41
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Coagulative necrosis

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Necrotic tissue that remains firm - cell shape/organ structure are preserved, nucleus disappears

42
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Ischemic infarction of any solid organ leads to _____________.

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Coagulative necrosis - not brain

43
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Area of infarcted tissue is often ______-shaped and _____.

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Wedge

Pale

44
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Red infarction

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Blood re-enters a loosely organized tissue

45
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Liquefactive necrosis

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Necrotic tissue becomes liquefied - enzymatic lysis of cells and proteins

46
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What are the characteristic instances of liquefactive necrosis?

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  1. Brain infarction (microglial)
  2. Abscess (neutrophils)
  3. Pancreatitis (pancreatic enzymes)
47
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Why does a brain infarction result in liquefactive necrosis?

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The microglial cells contain hydrolytic enzymes

48
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Gangrenous necrosis - dry

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Coagulative necrosis that resembles mummified tissue - Ischemia of lower limb and GI

49
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Gangrenous necrosis - wet

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Coagulative necrosis w/ superimposed infection - liquefactive

50
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Caseous necrosis

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Soft, friable necrotic tissue “cottage cheese like” appearance - TB infection or fungal
Characteristic granulomatous inflammation - combo

51
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Fat necrosis

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Necrotic adipose tissue w/ chalky-white appearance - deposition of calcium – saponification (FA + Ca)

52
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What two types of necrosis are seen with pancreatitis

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Fat (peripancreatic fat) and Liquefactive (pancreas)

53
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Where is fat necrosis seen?

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  1. Trauma to fat e.g. breast

2. Pancreatitis-mediated damage of peripancreatic fat

54
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Saponification

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FA released by trauma or lipase join w/ Ca (dystrophic calcification)

55
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Dystrophic Calcification

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Dead/dying tissue is a deposit site for Ca - serum Ca and PO4 is normal

56
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Metastatic Calcification

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Serum Ca or serum PO4 is elevated and forces Ca into tissues which then precipitates out

57
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Fibrinoid necrosis

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Necrotic damage to blood vessel wall - leaking of protein into vessel wall – bright pink staining

58
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What is fibrinoid necrosis characteristic of?

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  1. Malignant HTN
  2. Vasculitis
  3. Preeclampsia (30 yo woman)
59
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Apoptosis

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Energy-dependent, genetically programmed cell death - single cell or small groups of cells

60
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What are 3 morphological characteristics of apoptosis?

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  1. Dying cell shrinks (eosinophilic)
  2. Nucleus condenses and fragments
  3. Apoptotic bodies fall from cell and are removed by macrophages (no inflammation)
61
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Apoptosis is mediated by __________ which activate ___________ and ______________.

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  1. Caspases
  2. Proteases (cytoskeleton)
  3. Endonucleases (DNA)
62
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What are the 3 pathways that can activate caspases?

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  1. Intrinsic
  2. Extrinsic receptor-ligand
  3. CD8+ T cell via perforins and granzymes
63
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Intrinsic mitochondrial pathway

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Cellular injury, DNA damage, or dec. hormal stim will inactivates Bcl2 -> Cytochrome c leaves from inner mitochondrial matrix into cytoplasm

64
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Extrinsic receptor-ligand pathway

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FAS ligand binds FAS death receptor on target cell or

TNF binds TNF receptor

65
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How are free radicals generated pathologically?

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  1. Ionizing radiation (OH*) hydroxyl
  2. Inflammation
  3. Metals (Cu and Fe)
  4. Drugs/chemicals
66
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What is the most damaging free radical?

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The Hydroxyl radical OH*

67
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How does iron generate a free radical, and what is the most common?

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  1. Fenton reaction

2. Hydroxyl

68
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How do free radicals cause damage?

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  1. Peroxidation of lipids

2. Oxidation of DNA and proteins

69
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What are 3 ways the body can eliminate free radicals?

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  1. Antioxidants (Vita A, C, E)
  2. Metal carrier proteins (transferrin)
  3. Enzymes
70
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What 3 enzymes are important for the elimination of free radicals?

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  1. SOD (O2-)
  2. Glutathione peroxidase (OH*)
  3. Catalase (H2O2)
71
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Where is CCl4 commonly seen, and where is it converted to CCl3? What is the classic histologic finding?

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  1. Dry Cleaning
  2. Liver
  3. Fatty Liver (RER swelling/no Apolipoprotein)
72
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What is the main way a reperfusion injury causes damage?

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Return of oxygen and inflammatory cells to dead cells generates free radicals

73
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A patient undergoing a myocardial infarction is taken to the cath lab. After the artery is opened up, the cardiac enzymes continue to rise, why?

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Reperfusion injury - damage to cardiac myocytes by free radicals

74
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Amyloid

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Misfolded protein that deposits in extracellular space

75
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What are the common characteristics of amyloid

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  1. Beta-pleated sheet config
  2. Congo red staining and apple-green birefringence under polarized light
  3. Tends to deposit around blood vessels
76
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Primary amyloidosis

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Systemic deposition of AL amyloid - derived from Ig light chain

77
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What is primary amyloidosis associated with?

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Plasma cell dyscrasias (more light than heavy chain)

78
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Secondary amyloidosis

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Systemic deposition of AA amyloid derived from SAA

79
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SAA

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Acute phase reactant that is increased in chronic inflammatory states, malignancy and familial mediterranean fever

80
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Familial Mediterranean fever

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Dysfunction of neutrophils (AR) - fever and acute serosal inflammation –> High SAA during attacks deposits as AA amyloid

81
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Classic clinical findings of systemic amyloidosis (3)

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  1. Nephrotic syndrome (most commonly involved)
  2. Restrictive cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia
  3. Tongue enlargement, malabsorption, and hepatosplenomegaly
82
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Senile cardiac amyloidosis

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Non-mutated serum transthyretin deposits in heart - usually asymptomatic

83
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Familial amyloid cardiomyopathy

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Mutated serum transthyretin deposits in heart - restrictive cardiomyopathy - 5% of AA

84
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Type II Diabetes

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Amylin deposits in islets of pancreas - derived from insulin

85
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Alzheimer Disease

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Abeta amyloid deposits in brain forming plaques - derived from beta-amyloid precursor protein (Chrom 21)

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Dialysis-associated amyloidosis

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beta2-microglobulin deposits in joints - not filtered well

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Medullary carcinoma of thyroid

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Calcitonin deposits within tumor - tumor cells w/ an amyloid background

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