Extras on Inflammation 1 Flashcards
What aspect of inflammation leads to redness and warmth?
Increased Blood Flow (vasodilation)
Why can gout be triggered by cold weather?
Uric Acid Crystals Precipitate in the Cold
What aspect of inflammations leads to swelling?
Increased vascular permeability
What aspect of inflammation causes pain?
Release of Prostaglandins and Bradykinin
What if you saw a histological slide and you saw apple green birefringence under uv light?
You would know you were looking a uric acid crystals.
GOUT
What is the definition of an ulcer?
- what produces it
Its a local defect or excavation of the surface of an organ or tissue
- Produced by necrosis of cells and sloughing of necrotic and inflammatory tissue
Suppose you have stringy pus. What do you call this?
Mucopurulent Exudate
What is a fistula?
Abnormal Connection with a Lumen
Between:
- Two hollow organs
- 1 hollow organ and skin
- Hollow organ and Body Cavity
You open up the abdomen as see green tinged thin fluid. What has happened?
Probably a biliary-abdominal Fistula
What fluid would be present in the abdomin of you had an entero-abdominal Fistula?
- what about a uretero-abdominal Fistula?
Feculent (brown, with particulates)
- Uretero-abdominal Fistula = YELLOW
What cytokines are of primary importance in making sure that the proper machinery is expressed for leukocytes to penetrate epithelium?
TNF
IL-1
How do diseases such as pelvic inflammatory disease develop from something like an STD?
- Acute inflammation turns to Chronic inflammation
**Recall in example from lecture that fibrin deposits showed up as stringy on the exploratory laparotomy.
T or F: cirrhosis of the liver is often also accompanied by spontaneous bacterial infections.
True
You have a blister full of clear fluid, would you most likely classify this as transudate or exudate?
Transudate
What are some common symptoms of TB?
- Fever
- Fatigue
- Cough
- Orangomegaly
**Look out for people who are immunocompromised
