Chapter 3 - Infection & Inflammation Flashcards

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What are the features of acute inflammation?

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Vascular congestion, edema

Fibrinous exudate, tissue damage & necrosis

Neutrophils

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What can trigger acute inflammation?

How can it resolve?

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Trauma, ischemia, toxins, infection…

Can be followed by resolution, fibrosis/scar, abscess formation, or chronic inflammatory change

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3
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Describe the appearance of granulation tissue

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Watery or myxoid background with inflammatory cells, sparse fibroblasts, and capillaries with prominent endothelium.

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Describe the appearance of biopsy site changes

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Fibroblast proliferation (early scar)

Foreign body-type giant cells, foamy macrophages, fat necrosis

Suture material

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What are the features of chronic inflammation?

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Increased vascularity and/or fibrosis

Tissue destruction

Lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate

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What are some activated forms of macrophages?

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Epithelioid

Foamy

Giant cell (langerhans - ring nuclei, foreign body-type - scattered nuclei)

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How do histiocytes normally appear?

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Bland, fading into the background. Granular cytoplasm (phagocytosed junk).

Stream in a circular pattern.

Can be foamy (almost signet-ring like)

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What can cause granuloma formation?

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Mycobacterial and fungal infection

Autoimmune disease

Sarcoidosis

Toxins & irritants

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How d o granulomas appear?

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Aggregate of histiocytes with surrounding lymphocytes & plasma cells.

Giant cells are helpful but not essential.

Old granulomas can become hyalinized and acellular.

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10
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Describe the appearance of the following fungi:

Candida

Aspergillus

Mucor

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Candida: Round-to-oval yeast forms and pseudohyphae (segmented and nonbranching) at the epithelial surface.

Aspergillus: Long, thin hyphae with 45-degree branching and septation. Can be a solid ball or as single hyphae.

Mucor: Irregular and wide nonseptate hyphae. Almost invisible on H&E.

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Describe the appearance of the following fungi:

Histoplasma

Cryptococcus

Pneumocystis

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Histoplasma: Tiny intracellular yeast forms with narrow-based budding, either within acrophages or granulomas

Cryptococcus: Encapsulated yeast forms with narrow-based budding, with high size-variability (but larger than histoplasmosis)

Pneumocystis: Flattened, contact-lens shaped in the alveoli. Invisible on H&E but accompanied by foamy pink exudate.

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12
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Describe the appearance of:

Helicobacter pylori

Actinomyces

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H. Pylori: Tiny seagull-shaped bacilli in pit lumens or surfaces of a background of chronic inflammatory infiltrates.

Actinomyces: Puffball bacterial colony; granular grey-purple, sometimes filamentous, with no identifiable structures.

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Distinguish between the appearances of HSV and CMV.

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HSV: Infects epithelium (look adjacent to ulcer), which become multinucleated with glassy nuclear inclusions.

CMV: Also infects mesenchymal cells (look in ulcer bed), which are enlarged with large nuclei and dense round inclusion within nucleus with a pale halo.

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Describe the appearances of giardia, trichomonas, and cryptosporidium.

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Giardia: Flounder with a long tail; kite-shaped at the luminal surface of villi without much inflammation.

Trichomonas: Like giardia, on pap smears

Cryptosporidium: Tiny round parasites along the brush border in the duodenum.

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Acute inflammation & abscess formation

  1. Neutrophils
  2. Extravasated blood
  3. Prominent capillaries
  4. Fibrin accumulation
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Granulation tissue

Arrow: Condensing/thickening of the stroma around capillaries

17
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Biopsy site changes

Arrow: Foamy histiocyte ingesting some residual fat
Inset: Hemosiderin in macrophages

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Dermal scar

Note displacement of subcutaneous fat and adnexal structures

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Histiocytes (circle) amongst lymphocytes (arrowhead)

20
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Granulomas in Crohn’s disease; subtle (arrow) with a collar of lymphocytes

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Granulomas in sarcoidosis. Obvious, well-defined masses of pink histiocytes with giant cells (arrowhead)

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Granuloma in TB. Histiocytes only visible at periphery, as core is necrotic (arrow).

23
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Hyalinized granuloma

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Candida (PAS)

Arrow: Pseudohyphae & yeasts

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Aspergillus (GMS) Note branching hyphae
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Mucor (PAS) Note thick, "hollow" irregular outlines
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Histoplasmosis (GMS) Tiny yeasts (40x objective)
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Cryptococcus (GMS) Note larger organisms than histoplasmosis (still 40x) and range of sizes & shapes
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Pneumocystis (GMS) Lung tissue...
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Describe the appearance of TB and MAC.
TB: Bright wine-red, tiny scattered bacilli on AFB. Must scan entire slide at 40x... consider auramine-rhodamine if AFB is negative. MAC: Profound proliferation within "foamy" macrophages. Can look like Whipple's disease, but PAS-negative.
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Mycobacteria (AFB)
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H. Pylori in gastric mucosal pits
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Actinomyces
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Herpesvirus Arrow: Multiple molded nuclei with peripheral rim of chromatin and glassy inclusion nearly replacing chromatin
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Cytomegalovirus Arrow: Central reddish-dense nuclear inclusion, surrounded by clear halo and rim of purple chromatin