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1
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Epi of Rheumatic Fever

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  1. Kids

2. Endemic in LEDCs

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Pathogenesis of Rheumatic Fever

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  • Untreated Strep Throat
  • Causative Organism: Group A haemolytic Strep Pyogenes
  • After latency period of 2-6w
  • Anti-strep antibodies attack the heart
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Causative organism of Rheumatic fever

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Group A haemolytic strep Pyogenes

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Latency period between strep throat and rheumatic fever

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2-6w

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Initial infection before rheumatic fever

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Strep throat

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Major Diagnostic Criteria for Rheumatic Fever

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JONES

  1. Polyarthritis
  2. Pancarditis
  3. Subcutaneous Nodules
  4. Erythema Marginatum
  5. Sydenham’s Chroea
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Minor diagnostic criteria for rheumatic fever

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  1. Lab abnormalities (raised CRP)
  2. ECG abnormalities (prolonged PR)
  3. Fever
  4. Arthralgia
  5. Recent streptococcal infection
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How do you diagnose Rheumatic fever?

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Clinically

2 Major criteria

OR

1 major and 2 minor criteria (one of which must be ‘Recent Strep Infection’)

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What is pancarditis?

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Inflammation of the whole heart (all layers)

Perimyoendocarditis

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How would you know there is pericarditis present in rheumatic fever?

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  • Pleural rub on auscultation

- Diffuse saddle shaped ST elevation

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Signs of myocarditis in rheumatic fever

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Aschoff bodies

- Giant cell granulomas

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Signs of endocarditis in rheumatic fever

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Valve disease
- Vegetations on valve leaflets

Anitschow cells

  • Perivascular
  • Chromatin
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Causes of valve disease

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  1. Age related degeneration (calcification)
  2. Function changes (IHD)
  3. Rheumatic fever
  4. Infective endocarditis
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Causes of aortic stenosis

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Calcific degeneration

Rheumatic Fever

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Ix aortic stenosis

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Doppler USS

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Complications of aortic stenosis

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LV hypertrophy
Angina

Syncope

LV failure
Sudden death

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Causes of aortic regurgitation (incompetence)

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Aortic root dilatation

Rheumatic valve disease

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Complications of Aortic incompetence

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LV dilation

HF

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Risk factors for aortic stenosis

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Bicuspid aortic valve

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20
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Causes of aortic root dilatation

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Aortitis

Idiopathic

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Causes of Mitral stenosis

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Rheumatic fever

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Complications of mitral stenosis

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LA Hypertrophy

Pulmonary oedema

RV hypertrophy (Because more difficult to pump to lungs now)

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Causes of mitral incompetence (regurgitation)

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Floppy valve (degeneration)

Rheumatic fever

Dilated mitral valve annulus

Papillary muscle dysfunction

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Complication of mitral regurgitation

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LA dilation

AF

Mural thrombus

Embolic stroke

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Most common cause and causative organism of infective endocarditis

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Recurrent gingivitis

Viridans streptococci

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How does the causative agent get to the heart valves to cause infective endocarditis?

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Bacteraemia

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Complications of Infective endocarditis

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  1. Cusp or chordae rupture
  2. Valvular incompetence (damage)
  3. Myocarditis
  4. Thromboembolism
  5. Fever, malaise, weight loss
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Predisposing factors for Infective endocarditis

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  1. Structural abnormalities
    - Incompetent valves
  2. Prosthesis
    - Prosthetic valves
    - PCI
  3. Bacteraemia
    - IV drug use
    - Sepsis
  4. Immunosuppression
    - DM
    - Alcoholism etc
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Main signs of infective endocarditis

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Finger clubbing
Janeway lesions
Splinter haemorrhages
Osler’s Nodes

Poor dental hygiene

Roth Spots

PUO

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30
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What is Haematuria a sign of in the setting of infective endocarditis?

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Thromboembolism

Resulting in renal infarcts

Resulting in Glomerulonephritis

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What is bronchopneumonia a sign of in the setting of Infective endocarditis?

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Pulmonary infarct

As result of Tricuspid valve endocarditis

Resulting in thromboembolism

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32
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Roth spots

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Red spots with white centre

Seen in retina

in Infective Endocarditis

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Splinter Haemorrhages

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Lots of tiny blood clots

Run vertically

Under the nails

In infective endocarditis

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Janeway Lesions

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Painless, red, flat, papules on palms of hands and soles of feet

Infective endocarditis

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Osler’s Nodes

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Tender raised red spots on hands

Infective endocarditis

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Define ‘True Aneurysm’

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Localised, permanent, abnormal dilatation of a blood vessel

37
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Define False Auneurysm

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The vessel wall is completely breeched

Blood leaks out

Blood is contained by the surrounding adventitia and perivascular soft tissue

38
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Cause of false aneurysm

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Trauma (Surgical—> PCI)

39
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Typical location of false aneurysm

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Femoral A. (During PCI)

40
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Cause of saccular or diffuse aneurysm

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Atherosclerosis

Inflammatory disorders

41
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Location of saccular or diffuse aneurysm

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Abdominal Aorta
Thoracic aorta
Cerebral artery

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Describe Saccular aneurysm

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True aneurysm

Focal outpouching in the vessel wall

43
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Describe Diffuse aneurysm

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True aneurysm

Involve whole circumference of the vessel wall

44
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Describe Dissecting aneurysm

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Then aneurysm is within the vessel between the layers

45
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Cause of Dissecting aneurysm

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Connective Tissue disorders (Marfan’s)

Bicuspid aortic valve

Uncontrolled HTN

Atherosclerosis

Trauma

46
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Typical location of Dissecting aneurysms

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Aorta and main branches

47
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Describe capillary / microaneurysm

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Saccular outpouchings in capillaries

48
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Causes of Capillary / Microaneurysms

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HTN

Pericyte cell loss in DM (resulting in diabetic retinopathy)

49
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Typical locations of capillary / microaneursyms

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Cerebral capillaries

Retinal Capillaries

50
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Describe mycotic aneurysm

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Aneurysm caused by a bacterial infection of the vessel wall

51
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Causes of Mycotic aneurysm

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Infection (eg. Infective Endocarditis)

Septic emboli

52
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Typical location for mycotic aneurysm

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Any vessel

53
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Consequences of aneurysms

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Rupture —> Haemorrhage —> shock —> hypo-perfusion of vital organs —> end organ failure

Compression of adjacent structures

Thromboembolism formation

54
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How is Myocarditis diagnosed?

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Dallas criteria:

  1. On histological examination there is:
    - Myocyte death
    - Inflammatory infiltrate (T lymphocytes)
  2. Ischaemia did not cause this
55
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Causes of Myocarditis

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Coxsackie
ECHO
Adenovirus (Kids)

Diphtheria
Meningococcus

Trypanosomiasis (Africa)
Chagas’ Disease (America)

Ionising radiation

Adriamycin

56
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Complications of Pericarditis

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Pericardial Effusion

Leading to Cardiac tampondae

Leading to obstructive shock and death

57
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Pathogenesis of Cardiac tampondae

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The pericardium is inflamed

The vessels become more permeable

Fluid leads out of the vessels and fills the potential space between the visceral and parietal pericardial layers (effusion)

This compresses the heart

Heart can’t fill properly

58
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Complications of caseous or purulent / suppurative pericardial effusion

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Constrictive pericarditis

Due to healing by fibrosis

59
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Cause of caseous pericarditis

A

Fungi

Mycobacterium

60
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Cause of blood stained pericardial effusion

A

Malignancy

61
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Morphological features of shock in the Brain

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Neuronal damage

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Morphological features of shock in the Heart

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Sub-endocardial necrosis

63
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Morphological features of shock in the Kidneys

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Acute Tubular Necrosis

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Morphological features of shock in the lungs

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Diffuse alveolar necrosis

65
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Morphological features of shock in the Liver

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Fatty change

Zone 3 necrosis

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Morphological features of shock in the GIT

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Haemorrhagic enteropathy

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Types of shock

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  1. Distributive
  2. Hypovolaemic
  3. Cardiogenic
  4. Obstructive
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Causes of Pericarditis

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Viral
Bacterial (TB

Post MI
Dressler’s

Carcinoma (metastatic spread)

Uraemia

Systemic disease

Cardiac surgery

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Factors that determine whether ischaemia or infarction develops

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Nature of blood supply

  • Dual vs end-organ
  • Anastamoses
  • Arcades

Rate of occlusion

Vulnerability of tissue to hypoxia

Oxygen content of the blood

70
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What affects the oxygen content of blood?

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Anaemia

Altitude

Hyperventillation/ Hypoventillation

71
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What are the 2 tyes of infarct morphology?

72
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Describe Red infarcts

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Location:
- Loose, previously congested tissues with dual blood supply

Cause: Venous occlusion

Pathology: Re-perfusion damage

Eg: PE in lung

73
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Describe pale infarcts

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Location:

  • Solid organs
  • End-organs

Blood supply: Single

Eg. Heart, spleen, kidney

74
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Causes of ischaemia and infarction

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Thrombus
Embolus
Hyperviscosity
Atheroma

Spasm
Vasculitis

Compression

75
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What does Virchow’s Triad predict?

A

Thrombosis

76
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Virchow’s Triad

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Changes in intimal surface of vessel wall

Changes in pattern of blood flow

Changes in blood constituents

77
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Signs of arterial thrombosis in the limbs

5

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Pale
Perishingly Cold
Pulselessness 
Paraesthesia
Paralysis
78
Q

Signs of venous thrombus formation in a limb

3

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Red
Tender
Swollen

79
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Fate of a thrombi

4

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  1. Lysis and resolution
  2. Organisation
  3. Recanalisation
  4. Embolism
80
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Types of embolism

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  1. Thromboembolism
  2. Atheromatous embolism
  3. Amniotic fluid embolism
  4. Gas embolism
  5. Fat embolism
  6. Tumour
  7. Foreign body
  8. Infective agents
81
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Layers of an artery from inside out

6

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Endothelium

Intima

Internal elastic lamina

Media

External elastic lamina

Adventitia

82
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Pathogenesis of ischaemia

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Reduction in blood supply

Increased metabolic demand of tissue

Reduced oxygen carriage

83
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Morphological appearance of Ischaemic tissue depends on:

A
  • Extent of infarction

- Time since infarction

84
Q

How do you measure myocardial necrosis?

Why?

A

Troponin

It is a myocardial enzyme that is released

85
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Key histological features following myocardial infarction @:

<24hrs
>24hrs
D-W
W-Mths

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< 24hrs : Electron microscopy shows swollen mitochondria

> 24hrs:

  • Pale infarct
  • Inflammation at periphery
  • Monocytes lose striations

d-w:
- Macrophages

Mths:

  • Repair by organisation and fibrosis
  • Akinetic segment

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