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What does water flow down?

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Concentration/pressure gradient

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What is Darcy’s law?

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Q is blood flow

P is pressure

R is resistance

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What is congestion?

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Relative excess of blood in vessels of tissue or organ

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What are clinical pathological examples of congestion?

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Local acute congestion (deep vein thrombosis)

Local chronic congestion (hepatic cirrhosis)

Generalised acute congestion (congestive cardiac failure)

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What is deep vein thrombosis?

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Thrombus forms in one or more of the deep veins in your body, usually in your legs

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What is it called when a thrombus forms in one or more of the deep veins in your body, usually in your legs?

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Deep vein thrombosis

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What is the pathophysiological process of deep vein thrombosis?

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1) Blood backs up in veins, venules and capillaries
2) Decreased outflow of blod
3) Local, acute congestion
4) Decreased pressure gradient
5) Decreased flow across system
6) No oxygen leading to ischaemia and infarction

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What is hepatic cirrhosis?

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Liver does not unfction properly due to long term damage

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What is it called when the liver does not function properly due to long term damage?

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Hepatic cirrhosis

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What could hepatic cirrhosis be due to?

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HBV or alcohol

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What does hepatic cirrhosis lead to?

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Loss of normal architecture leading to altered hepatic blood flow

Portal blood flow blocked

Haemorrhage risk

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What is congestive cardiac failure?

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Heart muscle does not pump blood as well as it should

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What is it called when the heart muscle does not pump blood as well as it should?

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Congestive cardial failure (or heart failure)

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What is congestive cardiac failure also known as?

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Heart failure

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What could congestive cardiac failure be due to?

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Ischaemia

Valvular disease

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What is the pathophysiology of congestive cardiac failure?

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Decreased cardiac output

Decreased renal glomerular filtration rate

Increased amount of fluid in the body

Fluid overload in the veins

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What does decreased renal glomerular filtration rate during congestive cardiac failure lead to?

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Activation of renin-angiotensin-aldosteron system

Increased sodium and water retention

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What are some of the effects of congestive cardiac failure?

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Heart cannot clear blood from ventricles

Back pressure, blood dammed back in veins

Pulmonary oedema in lefts (leading to left heart failure where blood dams back into lungs)

Central venous congestion in liver (leading to right heart failure where blood backs into systemic circulation)

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What does central venous congestion in liver during congestive cardiac failure cause?

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Right heart failure

Increased jugular venous pressure

Hepatomegaly

Peripheral oedema

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What is hepatic central venous congestion?

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Liver dysfunction due to venous congestion usually due to congestive heart failure

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What is liver dysfunction due to venous congestion usually due to congestive heart failure called?

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Hepatic central venous congestion

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How are pericentral and periportal hepatocytes different in hepatic central venous congestion?

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Pericentral hepatocytes are red due to poorly oxygenated blood

Periportal hepatocytes are pale due to better oxygenated blood because of proximity of hepatic arterioles

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What is the normal microcirculation?

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Constant movement of fluid through capillary beds

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What is normal microcirculation driven by?

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Hydrostatic pressure from the heart

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What is the hydrostatic pressure from the heart balanced by?
Osmotic pressures and endothelial permeability
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How does the hydrostatic and oncotic pressure compare in arterial side and venous side?
In arterial side hydrostatic is greater than oncotic so fluid moves out of vessel into interstitial space In venous side oncotic is greater than hydrostatic so fluid moves into vessel from interstitial space
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What are 3 components that affect net flux and filtration?
Hydrostatic pressure Oncotic pressure Permeability characteristics and area of endothelium
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What does disturbances to the normal components that affect net flux and filtration cause?
Oedema
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What is oedema?
A condition characterised by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body
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What is a condition characterised by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body?
Oedema
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What is effusion?
Accumulation of fluid in body cavities
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What is accumulation of fluid in body cavities called?
Effusion
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What are examples of different kinds of effusions?
Pleural Pericardial Joint effusions Abdominal cavity (ascites)
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What are the 2 kinds of oedema?
Transduate Exudate
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What are transduate oedema due to?
Alterations in the haemodynamic forces which act across the capillary wall (cardiac failure) (fluid overload)
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What is present and not present in transduate?
Not much protein/albumin Lots of water and electrolytes
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What is the specific gravity of transudate?
Low specific gravity
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What is exudate due to?
Inflammatory process due to increased vascular permeability (tumour) (inflammation) (allergy)
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What is present and not present in exudate?
Higher protein/albumin content Lots of water and electrolytes
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What is the specific gravity of exudate?
High specific gravity
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How is transudate different from exudate?
Transudate has low protein/albumin content and low specific gravity Exudate has high protein/albumin content and high specific gravity
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What are some examples of different kinds of oedema?
Peripheral oedema Pulmonary oedema Lymphatic blockage Oedema in abnormal renal function Low protein oedema Permeability oedema
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What is the pathophysiology of peripheral oedema?
1) Right heart failure means cannot empty right ventricle in systole 2) Blood retained in systemic veins, leading to increased pressure in capillaries 3) Causes increased filtration and peripheral oedema (also cause of secondary portal venous congestion in the liver)
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Is pulmonary oedema transudate or exudate?
Transudate (due to hydrostatic pressure)
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What is the pathophysiology of pulmonary oedema?
1) Left ventricular failure increases left ventricular pressure leading to passive flow to pulmonary veins, capillaries and arteries 2) Increased pulmonary vascular pressure 3) Increased pulmonary blood volume causing increased capillary hydrostatic pressure which leads to filtration and pulmonary oedema
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What happens in the lungs during pulmonary oedema?
Progressive oedematous widening of alveolar septa Accumulation of oedema fluid in alveolar spaces
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What does lymphatic blockage lead to?
Upsetting the hydrostatic pressure
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What is lymphatic drainage required for?
Normal flow so it if is blocked it leads to lymphoedema
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What does lymphatic blockage lead to?
Lymphoedema
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What does abnormal renal function due to oedema result in?
Salt (NaCl) and water retention
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What is abnormal renal function secondary in?
Heart failure due to reduced renal blood flow
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What is abnormal renal function primary in?
Acute tubular damage such as in hypotension
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What is the pathophysiology of decreased renal function?
1) Increased salt and water retention 2) Increases intravascular fluid volume 3) Leads to increased capillary hydrostatic pressure causing oedema
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Is low protein oedema transudate or exudate?
Transudate
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What does capillary oncotic pressure require?
Normal protein levels
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What is a consequence of capillary oncotic pressure requireing normal protein levels?
Hypoalbumincaemia leads to decreased capillary oncotic pressure which increases filtration, leading to oedema
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What are examples of low protein oedema?
Nephrotic syndrome where leaky renal glomerular basement membrane causes a loss of protein and generalised oedema Heaptic cirrhosis where diffuse nodules and fibrosis in the liver means it is unable to synthesise enough protein Malnutrition due to insufficient protein intake
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Is permeability oedema transudate or exudate?
Endothelial permeability so exudate
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What is the pathophysiology of permeability oedema?
1) Damage to endothelial lining leads to increase in 'pores' in the membrane 2) Osmotic reflection coefficient of endothelium moves down towards 0 3) Proteins and larger molcules can leak out as well as water
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What are examples of permeability oedema?
Acute inflammation such as pneumonia Burns
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Generally, what leads to oedema?
Upsetting starling forces that control filtration

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