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Circulatory Disturbances I & II Flashcards

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The intestitium composed of what two things?

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ECM and supporting cells

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What is ECM composed of?

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Structural molecules and ground substance

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Water distribution between plasma &; interstitium is primarily determined by what two pressure differences?

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Hydrostatic and osmotic pressure differences between two compartments

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What does the starling equation illustrate?

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Role of hydrostatic and osmotic forces in movement of fluid across capillary membranes.

Hydrostatic moves fluid out and osmotic pressure moves fluid in

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What results in tissue edema?

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When capacity for lymphatic drainage is exceeded

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Edema is the abnormal accumulation of what?

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Excess extracellular water in interstitial spaces or body cavities

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Where is the fluid located during Edema?

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Fluid is outside both vascular fluid compartment and cellular fluid compartment (w/in interstitium)

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What are the 4 pathomechanisms of edema?

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  1. Increased blood hydrostatic pressure
  2. Decreased plasma colloidal osmotic pressure
  3. Lymphatic obstruction
  4. Increased vascular permeability
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What two categories can edema be classified under?

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Inflammatory and non-inflammatory

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Inflammatory edema is increased vascular permeability and refers to a what?

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Exudate

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Non-inflammatory edema refers to what?

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Transudate

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T/F: Inflammatory edema has protein rich fluid and non-inflammatory edema has protein poor fluid

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True

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What is the typical gross appearance of Edema?

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  1. Wet
  2. Gelatinous and heavy
  3. Swollen organs
  4. Fluid seeps
  5. May be yellow
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In pitting edema, what happens when pressure is applied to an area of edema?

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Depression or dent results bc of the forced excessive interstitial fluid to adjacent areas

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Hydrothorax is fluid in what cavity?

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Thoracic cavity

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Pericardial effusion is also called what disease?

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Mulberry heart disease

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17
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What two characteristics are noted in pericardial effusion?

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Fibrin strands and cloudy appearance

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Ascites or hydroperitoneum is what type of fluid within what cavity?

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Transudate in peritoneal cavity

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19
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Anasarca is what type of edema?

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Generalized edema

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20
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Anasarca results in fluid accumulation in what type of tissue?

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Subcutaneous tissue

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21
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Submandibular edema is commonly called what and is associated with what two types of things in sheep?

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  1. Bottle jaw

2. Severe GI parasitism and hypoproteinemia

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22
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Edema is dependent on what three things?

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  1. Extent
  2. Location
  3. Duration
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23
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Non-inflammatory pulmonary edema is associated with what?

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Left sided congestive heart failure (CHF)

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Inflammatory pulmonary edema is associated with what type of syndrome?

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

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25
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Inflammatory pulmonary edema happens after damage to what type of endothelium? Give Example

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Damage to pulmonary capillary endothelium

Ex: Pneumonia

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26
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What type of fluid is indicative of pulmonary edema?

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Frothy fluid

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27
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Pulmonary hypertension results when blood gets into what organ?

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Lungs

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28
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Chronic pulmonary edema is most commonly associated with what type of failure?

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Cardiac failure

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29
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What happens to the alveolar walls during chronic pulmonary edema? What may this lead to?

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Alveolar walls become thickened; may lead to fibrosis

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30
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What other characteristics may be present in chronic pulmonary edema?

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Congestion, micro-hemorrhages, and accumulation of heart failure cells

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31
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Heart failure cells are macrophages containing what?

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Hemosiderin

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32
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Hyperemia is indicated by an increase is what type of engorgement of the vascular bed? Is blood oxygenated?

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Increase in arteriole-mediated engorgement

Blood is oxygenated

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33
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Congestion is indicated by what type of engorgement? Is blood oxygenated?

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Passive venous engorgement

Blood is not oxygenated

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34
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During physiological hyperemia, does blood flow increase or decrease?

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Increase

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35
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Pathological hyperemia is caused by what?

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Underlying pathological process-usually inflammation

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36
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During pathological hyperemia, does arteriolar dilation occur primary or secondary to inflammatory stimuli?

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Secondary

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T/F: Pathological hyperemia is often associated with edema

38
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T/F: Gastric volvulus (torsion) in dog is an example of congestion

39
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Pulmonary congestion is usually the result of what is associated with what?

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  1. Heart failure

2. Edema

40
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T/F: Subacute to Chronic hepatic congestion is usually the result of Left sided CHF

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False; Right side CHF

41
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What is a characteristic identifier of chronic hepatic congestion and subacute hepatic congestion?

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Nutmeg liver

42
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Hemorrhage is defined as the escape of what form blood vessels?

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Blood (Extravasation)

43
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What are some causes of hemorrhage?

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  1. Trauma
  2. Sepsis, viremia, bacteremia, or toxic conditions
  3. Abdominal neoplasia
  4. Coagulation abnormalities
44
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Hemorrhage is blood (outside or inside?) the vessel wall and hyperemia/congestion is blood (outside or inside?) the blood vessels?

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  1. Outside

2. Inside

45
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Hemorrhage is determined by what to things?

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Location and severity

46
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T/F: Severity plays a role in the clinical manifestation of a hemorrhage

47
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What does hemopericardium lead to?

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Fatal cardiac tamponade

48
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Hemorrhage by rhexis is caused by what kind of damage in the vascular wall (or heart)?

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Substantial rent or tear

49
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Dissecting aneurysms are reported in horses and in the coronary and renal arteries of what type of animal?

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Young male racing greyhounds

50
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Dissecting aneurysms can lead to what two things?

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  1. Arterial rupture

2. Fatal hemorrhage

51
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Hemorrhages by diapedesis is due to what two things?

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  1. Small defect in vessel wall

2. RBCs passing through vessel wall

52
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T/F: Hemorrhagic diathesis is seen usually from insignificant injuries?

53
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Hemoperitoneum is blood is what cavity?

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Peritoneal cavity

54
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Hemarthrosis is blood between which space?

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Joint space

55
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What is hemoptysis?

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Coughing of blood or blood stained sputum form lungs or airways

56
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Epistaxis is bleed from what?

57
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A small Fock of hemorrhage is know as?

58
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Ecchymosis is larger than a petechia and is seen in what type of injury?

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Bruise or small hematoma

59
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Agonal hemorrhages are petechiae and ecchymoses associated with what?

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Terminal hypoxia

60
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What type of hemorrhage is larger than ecchymosis and is contiguous?

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Suffusive hemorrhage

61
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T/F: Paint brush hemorrhage is most common on mucosal and serosal surfaces

62
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In an area of hemorrhage, small amounts can be reabsorbed while larger amounts require what two things?

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  1. Phagocytosis

2. Degradation by macrophages

63
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A hematoma is organized by a central mass of what two things surrounded by supportive vascular CT?

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Fibrin and RBCs

64
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What are the 3 resolutions of a hematoma?

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  1. Hemoglobin
  2. Bilirubin
  3. Hemosiderin
65
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What is the pathological form of hemostasis?

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Thrombosis

66
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What are the 3 general components for a normal hemostasis or thrombosis to occur?

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  1. Vascular wall
  2. Platelets
  3. Coagulation cascade
67
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What is the process of primary hemostasis?

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  1. Adhesion and activation of platelets
  2. Shape change
  3. Release of secretory granules
  4. Recruitment
  5. Hemostasis plug forms
68
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What is the process of secondary hemostasis?

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  1. Tissue factor
  2. Phospholipid complex expression
  3. Thrombin activation
  4. Fibrin polymerization
69
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What is the process of normal hemostasis?

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  1. Vasoconstriction
  2. Primary hemostasis
  3. Secondary hemostasis
  4. Thrombus and antithrombotic effects
70
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What type of cells are key players in the regulation of hemostasis?

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Endothelial cells

71
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Thrombosis is the formation of what within the CV system?

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Solid mass (Thrombus)

72
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What is a thrombus composed of?

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Platelets, fibrin, entrapped blood cells

73
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Is a thrombus adhered or detached from the vascular wall?

74
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T/F: Thrombus has a more opaque, dull, granular appearance

75
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What three things play a role in the formation of a thrombus?

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  1. Endothelial injury
  2. Alterations in blood flow
  3. Hypercoagulability
76
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What is a major inhibitor of thrombin?

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Antithrombin III

77
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T/F: A dog with renal failure can develop pulmonary thrombosis

78
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Verminous thrombosis is formed in what artery of horses with Strongyles vulgarisms infections?

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Cranial mesenteric artery

79
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What kind of thrombus is formed in the trifurcation of abdominal aorta?

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Saddle thrombus

80
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What are some outcomes of a thrombi?

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  1. Lysis
  2. Propagation
  3. Embolization
  4. Organization/recanalization
81
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If pieces of a thrombus break off of original mass and go down to lodge at a distant site, the process is called what? And the mass that breaks off is called what?

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  1. Embolism

2. Embolus

82
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What kind of embolism can be occur due to a complication of long bone fractures?

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Fat embolism

83
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T/F: Bacterial valvular endocarditis can be a cause of thrombosis/thromboembolism

84
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T/F: Thrombotic meningoencephalitis (TME) is an example of thrombosis

85
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What three things can be seen with disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)?

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  1. Tissue hypoxia
  2. Infarction
  3. Hemorrhage
86
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Infarction is a localized area of what necrosis in a tissue or organ caused by occlusion of either what two things?

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  1. Ischemic necrosis

2. Atrial supply or venous drainage

87
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T/F: Arterial infarcts are initially pale but become hemorrhagic

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False, initially hemorrhagic and become pale

88
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Microscopically, an infarction is a focal of what type of necrosis?

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Coagulation necrosis

89
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Shock gives rise to what?

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System hypoperfusion

90
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Shock may lead to what two things?

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DIC and multi-organ system failure

91
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What are 3 types of shock?

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  1. Cardiogenic shock
  2. Hypovolemic shock
  3. Blood maldistribution
92
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What kind of bacteria causes septic shock?

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Endotoxin producing gram negative bacilli

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