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Chronic Inflammation 2 Flashcards

1
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What is granulomatous inflammation always characterised by?

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Granulomas (granulomata) in tissues and organs

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2
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How is Granulomatous inflammation stimulated?

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Stimulated by indigestible antigen, body cannot get rid of it

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3
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What are idiopathic diseases?

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Diseases which we don’t know why they happened.

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4
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How are granulomas formed?

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aggregates of epithelioid macrophages in tissue

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What is epitheliod?

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Looks like epithelial

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6
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What might granulomas surround?

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Giant cells, dead material

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7
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What might granulomas be surrounded by?

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lymphocytes

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What do granulomas contain?

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neutrophils, eosinophils

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9
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Granulomas are formed as a result of?

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response to indigestible antigen

Many are type 4 hypersensitivity reactions

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10
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What do giant cells consist of?

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A giant cell is a mass formed by the union of several distinct cells (usually macrophages)

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Describe the structure of a giant cell?

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large cytoplasm; multiple nuclei
- several types

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12
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Are there always granuloma for giant cells to be present?

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no

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13
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Name a type of giant cell

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Langhans type

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14
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What is a Langhans type giant cell classically found in?

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TB

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Describe the structure of Langhans type

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peripheral rim of nuclei
large eosinophilic cytoplasm

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16
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What is the giant cell often associated with pyogenic granulation tissue

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Foreign body type

acutely inflamed
neutrophils, pus
organisation
giant cells

17
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What type of giant cell might you see with a ruptured silicone implant? e.g breast implant

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Silicone associated giant cells

Vacuoles contain leaked silicone

18
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Name some Infectious granulomatous diseases

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Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis),

Leprosy Mycobacterium leprae

syphilis

19
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Describe Caseous necrosis

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Cell death in which the tissue maintains a cheese-like appearance. Dead tissue appears as a soft and white proteinaceous dead cell mass.

Dead tissue surrounded by macrophages, giant cells, lymphocytes

No neutrophils?

Feature of TB?

20
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Give examples of Non-infective granulomas

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rheumatoid disease - tissue specific auto-immune disease

sarcoidosis

Crohn’s disease – chronic inflammatory bowel disease

21
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What is Sarcoidosis?

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Development of granulomas within organs of the body

22
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What are the common processes in chronic inflammation?

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Acute inflammation
Granulation tissue formation
Local angiogenesis - new vessels grow
Fibrosis and scar formation

23
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What is surgical wound healing?

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Healing by primary intention

24
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What are the goals of surgical wound healing?

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Minimal gap, small amount of granulation tissue, small linear scar

25
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What is healing of larger defects?

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Healing by secondary intention

26
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Describe the granulation tissue ingrowth in larger defects

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Lots of it

Contraction and scarring

27
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What is the sequence of events in wound healing?

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  • injury, blood clot, acute inflammation, fibrin
  • many growth factors and cytokines involved

-granulation tissue growth - angiogenesis

  • phagocytosis of fibrin
  • myofibroblasts move in and lay down collagen
  • contraction of scar
  • re-epithelialisation
28
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What conditions favour wound healing?

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Cleanliness

Apposition of edges (no haematoma)

Sound nutrition

Metabolic stability and normality

Normal inflammatory and coagulation mechanisms

Note local mediators

29
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What conditions result in impaired wound healing?

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Dirty, gaping wound, large haematoma

Poorly nourished, lack of vitamins C, A

Abnormal CHO metabolism, diabetes, corticosteroid therapy

Inhibition of angiogenesis

30
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What is the sequence of events in fracture healing?

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Trauma, fracture, haematoma

Bits of dead bone and soft tissue

Acute inflammation, organisation, granulation tissue, macrophages remove debris

Granulation tissue contains osteoblasts as well as fibroblasts

31
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What are the stages of callus formation?

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Osteoblasts lay down woven bone

Nodules of cartilage present

Followed by bone remodelling:
osteoclasts remove dead bone
progressive replacement of woven bone by lamellar bone
reformation of cortical and trabecular bone

32
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What stimulates proliferation of vessels?

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Vascular endothelial growth factor, released by hypoxic cells, stimulates proliferation

33
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What aids the process of angiogenesis?

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Enzyme secretion

34
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What is the benefit of angiogenesis?

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Allows blood supply to enter damaged tissue

35
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What is the effect of angiogenesis on thrombus

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Grows vessels through the thrombus, limits its propagation

36
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What is the effect of angiogenesis in malignant tumours

A

angiogenesis occurs as tumour grows,
potential for therapeutic control

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