Pathology Flashcards
Hyponaturemia, cerebral edema, and neurological dysfunction
Excess ADH
Graves’ disease
Hyperthyroidism
Hashimoto’s
Hypothyroidism
- Hypothyroidism in older adults and children
- Slowed metabolism and increased deposition of cutaneous glucosaminoglycans
Myxedema
Cretinism
Hypothyroidism and associated intellectual deficiency and growth disturbances
How does slowed metabolism and increased deposition of cutaneous glycosaminoglycans effect the skin?
Pre-tibial myxedema = imparts a thickened and dry characteristic to cutaneous tissues
High levels of growth hormone in adults, after growth plates have fused
Acromegaly
High levels of growth hormone before the fusion of growth plates
Gigantism
- chronic adrenocortical insufficiency
- destruction of adrenal cortex
- mucocutaneous hyperpigmentation
Addison disease
Adrenal gland failure due to bleeding into the adrenal gland usually related to a bacterial infection (often niesseria meningitis)
Waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome
- Hyperaldosteronism secretion
- HTN
- Na and water retention
- hypokalemia
Conn syndrome
High levels of exogenous corticosteroids
- moon faces, buffalo hump, peripheral wasting, cutaneous striae, osteoporosis
Cushing syndrome
High levels of exogenous corticosteroids
- when occurring specifically related to an ACTH-producing neoplasm
- hyperpigmentation of mucocutaneous tissues
Cushing disease
- Post-infectious
- anti-streptolysin O antibodies in serum
- Hematuria = RBC casts
- Neutrophil-mediated damage
- oliguria
- azotemia
- HTN
- reduced GFR
Nephritis glomerular disease
- periorbital edema
- proteinuria
- hypoalbuminemia (less than 3.5g of protein or more lost per day in urine)
- generalized edema
- hyperlipidemia
- lipiduria
Nephrotic
All variants of nephrotic syndrome share a common derangement, what is it?
Capillary wall damage leading to increased permeability of plasma proteins
Minimal change disease
Nephrotic
- common between 1-7 years
- light microscopy appears normal
- electron microscopy = effacement of podocyte foot processes
- no HTN
- renal function normal
- periobital edema
Minimal change disease (nephrotic syndrome)
What is the treatment for minimal change disease?
Prognosis?
Treatment = cortical steroids produce a rapid response Prognosis = excellent
- diffuse infiltrate of neutrophils (aka PMNs) (also monocytes) in glomerulus
- increase in numbers of endothelial and mesangial cells
- deposition of immune complexes
- granular deposits of IgG and complement
- low levels of complement
Acute post-infectious glomerulonephritis
Peptic ulcers are most commonly caused by what? 2nd most common? Where is the most common location to find peptic ulcers? What kind of anemia can be a complication of peptic ulcers?
- most common caused by = H.pylori
- 2nd most common = NSAIDS
- most common location = duodenum
Iron deficiency anemia
Premature destruction by the spleen
- sickle cell anemia
- thalassemia
- autoimmune
Hemolytic anemia
Aplastic anemia
Non-functioning bone marrow
Overproduction of neoplastic cells in the bone marrow so no space for production of normal RBCs
Meylophthisic anemia