inflammatory rheumatic disease Flashcards
What does it mean if the acute response is self limiting?
Acute episodes are self-limited due to inflammatory response
Removal of stimulus
Re-exposure causes ‘flares’
What are some acute inflammatory endogenous and exogenous reponces?
Endogenous- crystal deposition (gout)
Exogenous- new medication or infection
What is the initiating force of chronic inflammatory diseases?
Remote and unrecognizable
Disease phenotype is fully established
What does propagation mean?
Autoimmune response - self-amplified cycle of damage
Autoimmune diseases are characteristically driven by ‘self-antigens’
Can elicit innate and adaptive immune responses
What is the best case senserio for acute inflammation pathogenesis?
pathogen is killed and cells and tissues are repaired
What are the mechanisms of pathogensis of inflammation?
- cytokines
- endothelial activation
- complement pathway
- immune complex formation
- cellular cytotoxicity up regulation
a. lymphocyte mediated
b. antibody dependent cytotoxicity - host tissue differentiation
What happens when during inflammation with cytokines
Type and pattern of cytokines determine immune effector pathway = cellular function
Upregulation of cytokine production
When there is pro inflammatory cytokines what will occur?
Pro-inflammatory cytokines - promote inflammation - triggers adhesion-promoting receptors on blood vessel endothelium
What might endothelial activation contribute to?
contributes to atherosclerosis- more build up becomes own pathogen
Upregulation in the complement pathway is what type of response?
abnormal responce
Amplification of inflammatory responses
Serum proteins that cooperates with both the innate and the adaptive immune systems to eliminate pathogens = Amplification of inflammatory response
both innate and adaptive immune systems
What occurs in the immune complex formation?
Macrophage and Neutrophil complexes
damage healthy tissue if released in large amounts
follows upregulation of complement pathway
What are some clinical conditions that be seen in immune complex formation?
drug reactions, serum sickness, and infections
What are capable of destroying target cells?
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes - capable of destroying target cells
What type of cellular cytotoxity is this?
Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity
What is the cytotoxic mechanism?
Cytotoxic mechanism: cytoplasmic granules containing perforin and granzymes
What happens during host tissue differentiation
Inflammatory mediators and T cells stimulate cells unrelated to the immune response to change function chronic inflammatory response
What are the characteristics of Rheumatic diseases?
InflammatoryAutoimmuneDegenerativeMSK, Neuro, Cardiac, Pulm, Inte
Gout
Crystal-induced inflammation of synovial joints
What are the clinical presentations of gout?
Crystal-induced inflammation of synovial joints
Presents in ~4% of adults in the US
Males 3x»_space;> Females
Studies have shown that patients with gout are 60 percent more likely to develop kidney stones
Where might gout happen?
synovial joints
What are the crystals in gout made of?
Monosodium urate crystals in joint space = severe acute joint pain and swelling
Does gout happen in proximal or distal joints?
more distal small joints are more suceptable
Where are the most common locations for gout to occur?
Most common locations: great toe, midfoot, ankle, and knee
What have studies shown about patients with gout?
60% more likely to develop kidney stones
Over time what occurs when gout is constant?
Over time ‘flares’ can become more frequent and more painful- resulting in a chronic destructive condition = JOINT DEFORMITY
What is the initiating factor of gout?
Initiating Factor: monosodium urate crystal formation
what does hyperuricemia mean?
Body supersaturated with uric acid
What is the difference between underexcretion and overexcretion that causes gout?
Underexcretion - 90% of patients
Overproduction- 10% of patients
Underexcretion = most often due to impaired renal function or diuretics
Overproduction = diet, medication, defects in pathway leading to increased uric acid production
What is the pathophysiology of gout?
Crystal formation (primary factor) influenced by secondary local physical factors
Temperature
Blood flow
What are the mechanisms of gouts immune responses?
Monosodium crystals are efficient activators of the immune response
- Triggers Complement pathway : attracts neutrophils
- Vasodilators : pain and swelling
- Macrophage destruction of crystals : increased adhesion molecules and localized endothelium response