Ch 20 Blood Vessels Flashcards
What is Buerger disease associated with?
Smoking
What is a major presenting condition associated with syphilis?
Syphilitic aortitis
What is the vasa vasorum?
The blood vessels that supply blood (oxygen) to the blood vessels
What is the typical description of the aorta in syphilitic aortitis?
Treebark aorta
What is malignant hypertension?
Elevated blood pressure that may result in rapidly progressive vascular disease affecting the brain, heart, and kidney
What is proliferative glomerulonephritis?
Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis (Type III hypersensitivity, DUH!)
What is HBsAg and what disease is it associated with?
Hepatitis B surface antigen and it is associated with polarteriitis nodosa
What is the most common morphologic marker of polyarteriitis nodosa?
Fibrinoid necrosis
What is the marker associated with polyarteriitis nodosa that affects small vessels?
P-ANCA. You surprised, bitch?
What is hypersensitivity angiitis?
Inflammatory reaction to foreign materials such as bacterial products or drugs
What is leukocytoclastic vasculitis?
Vascular lesions confined to the skin with characterisitc palpable purpura. Inflammation of the small blood vessels
What layer of the temporal artery is destroyed in giant cell granulomatous arteritis?
The media
Besides pulselessness in extremities, what is another sign that a patient may have takayasu’s vasculitits?
Different blood pressures in each arm
What is another name for Churg-Strauss disease?
Allergic granulomatosis and angiitis
In which vasculitis is asthma commonly observed?
Churg-Strauss Disease
