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Disturbances in Circulation (Q3,CH. 6) Flashcards

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Edema/Dropsy

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A local or generalized condition in which the body tissues contain an excessive amount of tissue fluid
(seven types: anasarca, exudate, hydrothorax, Hydropericardium, ascites, pitting edema, pulmonary edema)

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Causes of Edema

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  1. Increased permeability of capillary walls
  2. Increased capillary pressure due to venous obstruction or heart failure
  3. Inflammatory conditions
  4. Fluid and electrolyte disturbances
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Anasarca

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  • Type of Edema
  • Severe, generalized, widespread edema (expressed through pitting edema)
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Ascites

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  • Type of Edema
  • accumulation of fluid in the abdomen/peritoneal cavity
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Hydrothorax/ Pleural Effusion

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  • Type of Edema
  • Edema in the pleural cavity
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Hydropericardium

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  • Type of Edema
  • Edema of the pericardial sac that surrounds the heart
  • can cause dyspnea and difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)
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Pitting Edema

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  • Type of Edema
  • Edema of the extremities.
  • skin maintains a depression when firmly pressed
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Pulmonary Edema

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  • Type of Edema
  • Fluid in the lungs
  • Potentially fatal because fluid may inhibit the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide
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Exudate

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Edema that occurs around an inflammation site

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Hyperemia/Congestion

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  • Excess blood in a body part
  • Two types: active hyperemia (active physiological & active pathological) and passive hyperemia
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Active Hyperemia

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  • Excess blood in a body part which was actively or purposefully taken there by the arterial system in the body
  • Two types: active physiological, and active pathological
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Active physiological Hyperemia

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Active hyperemia that results from a normal every day healthy bodily function
(exercise)

Blood purposely moved to the part because of normal functioning

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Active pathological Hyperemia

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Active hyperemia as a result of some disease process
(acute inflammatory process)

Blood purposely moves to the part because of a disease/infection

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Passive hyperemia

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  • The engorgement of an organ or tissues, with venous blood, resulting from inadequate venous drainage
  • Causes a reddish bluish discoloration of the affected parts, because venous return is impaired (Cyanosis)
  • (passive hyperemia is always pathological.)
  • 2 types: localized passive, or generalized passive
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Cyanosis

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Bluish discoloration of the tissues from unoxygenated blood

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Localized passive hyperemia

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  • Formation of a blood clot in a vein
  • Thickening of vessel walls
  • Pressure from an outside lesion
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Generalized passive hyperemia

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Normally a result of a heart disorder which affects the efficiency of the heart pumping action
- can result in hypostatic congestion or cyanosis

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Ischemia

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Decreased blood flow to a body part
- ischemia make cause an infarction

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Hypoxia

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A decrease in the level of oxygen within a tissue

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Ischemia and hypoxia

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  • are often related, but indicate two different pathological conditions and can happen together or apart
  • Ischemia (too little blood flow) will eventually result in hypoxia (too little oxygen to a part)
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Infarction/ischemic necrosis

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An area of tissue which has been deprived of blood supply dies

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Infarct

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The area of tissue that has died from an infarction

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Thrombosis

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The formation of a blood clot

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Thrombus

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A blood clot
- stationary (stay at the site where they form) and have the potential to fragment in the bloodstream (become a fragmented thrombi embolus)

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Embolism

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The sudden obstruction of a vessel by debris

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Embolis

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A Fragment of a blood clots, or other free-flowing object in the bloodstream

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Difference between embolus and thrombus

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  • An embolus moves through the circulatory system until becoming inlodged
  • A thrombus becomes inlodged where they form
  • Although emboli and thrombi have differences, they may cause the same results
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Types of Emboli

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Fragments of Thromboli
Microorganisms
Tumor Cells
Fat
Gases
Other Foreign Bodies

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Fragments of Thromboli

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Type of Emboli
- The most common emboli (what di canio wants us to understand an emboli to be)
- a blood clot/thrombus breaks apart, fragmenting into small pieces of the clot that travel throughout the bloodstream, and may become lodged into smaller vessels and block blood flow

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Results of Embolisms

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  • ischemia (two little blood flow)
  • infarction (death of tissues distal to the blockage)
  • Necrosis: the embolism may spread the infection and cause more systemic death of tissues
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Hemorrhage

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  • The escape of blood from the blood vascular system
  • Often associated with a break in the walls of a vessel
    (11 types)
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Petechiae/Petechia (singular)
(appearance based hemorrhage)

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  • Antemortem pinpoint size hemorrhages of small capillaries in the skin or mucous membranes
  • permanent extravascular stain after death (not removed through arterial embalming)
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Ecchymosis
(appearance based hemorrhage)

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Bruise; Large irregular patches of hemorrhage in the tissues ( permanent extravascular stain)

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Purpura
(appearance based hemorrhage)

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Widespread areas of hemorrhage into the skin or mucous membranes

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Hematoma
(appearance based hemorrhage)

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Tumor-like swelling filled with blood (ex. common blood blister)

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Melena
(appearance based hemorrhage)

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Very dark, tarry feces or vomit

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Hemothorax
(location based hemorrhage)

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Bleeding into the pleural/thoracic cavity

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Hemaparicardium
(location based hemorrhage)

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Bleeding into the pericardial cavity (from the heart cavity)

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Hemoperitoneum
(location based hemorrhage)

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Bleeding into the peritoneal cavity (abdominal cavity)

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Hemoptysis
(location based hemorrhage)

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Blood in the sputum (from the lungs)

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Hematemsis
(location based hemorrhage)

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Blood in vomit (from the stomach or upper digestive system)

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Hematuria

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The presence of blood in urine

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Exsanguination

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Massive bleeding from anywhere in the body; usually refers to the loss of blood to the point of death

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Epitaxis
(location based hemorrhage)

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Bleeding from the nose

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Gangrene/Necrosis

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  • The death of tissue often occurs in the extremities or skin from loss of blood supply.
  • The result of an infarction
  • 2 types: dry, gangrene and wet/moist gangrene
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Moist/True Gangrene

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Wet/Liquefaction Necrosis
- characterized by necrotic tissue which as been invaded by bacteria
- often associated with disturbances in the venous return of blood from the area

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Dry Gangrene

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Coagulation Necrosis; Ischemic Necrosis
- Dry gangrene occurs when the blood supply to tissue is cut off.
- The area becomes dry, shrinks, and turns black

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Coagulation

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The process of blood changing from a liquid/free-flowing form, into a semi-sold

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Circulatory Shock

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The condition that results from a serious reduction of blood flow in the body, resulting in reduced oxygen supply to the tissues.

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Fainting/syncope

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  • Temporary loss of consciousness
  • Often described as a mild form of shock
  • due to a temporary decrease of blood flow to the brain or low blood pressure
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Dehydration

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Desiccation; A decrease in total body fluids

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Postmortem conditions associated with disturbances in circulation

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  • Diminished circulation
  • edema
  • abscess
  • hemorrhage
  • emaciation
  • dehydration
  • rapid decomposition
  • discoloration

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