Week 7 Part 1&2 Flashcards
ARTERIAL THROMBOSIS
- thrombus in the arteries
- most common
- In the coronary artery
- The patient can die.
- The surface of the arteries looks rough
- In cerebral artery
- Results in death of the patient because it leads to development of ischemic stroke
VASCULITIS
- inflammation of the vessels.
- always results in swelling of the tissues- TUMOR.
- the vascular wall may spread to the outside (but there is usually a lot of tissue outsidethat prevents it) so instead the lumen will get obstructed.
- can be caused by autoimmune diseases.
- ex. Temporal arteritis/ giant cell arteritis/ Horton’s disease
- most common vasculitis that medicine knows.
- characterized by headache and facial ache.
- acute or chronic, often granulomatous, inflammation of the small to large arteries.
-granulomatous inflammation
characterized by development of multinucleated cells so this is also where it gets its name from
Horton’s disease
-inflammation of superficial temporal artery, ophthalmic and vertebral artery***
Polymyalgia rheumatic
- this is muscle pain (not arthritis)
- in the proximal portions of the pelvic and shoulder girdle
- more common in ladies 50 years old and older.
- this is associated with temporal arteritis.
- this develops in 50% of people with temporal arteritis. (they go together)
VENOUS INFACRTION
- ischemia means lack of BS to tissue (with arteries or veins)*
- it happens in various types of hernia. Hernias are associated with displacement of organs from its own cavity to a different cavity
- the most common hernia is in the intestines (stomach)
Para esophageal hernia
-part of the stomach goes between the esophagus and diaphragm (which is muscle and
can contract) –this may jam the small column where the stomach is up the stomach wallcontains BVs
Sheehan’s syndrome aka post partum syndrome (after delivery of the baby)
-infarction of the pituitary gland (anterior portion) (adeno hypophysis)
-normally, when the lady is pregnant she needs more and more hormones from pituitary gland. There is physiological hypertrophy of the anterior pituitary gland. After delivery
there is shrinking back to normal size.
-complications of delivery: you can get a hemorrhage from the uterus, blood is lost very
fast
-there is lack of blood to the pituitary and it dies forever.
Factors
affecting infarction
tissues innate vulnerability to hypoxia
pattern of vascular supply
the oxygen delivery capacity of the blood
rate of development of occlusion
tissues innate vulnerability to hypoxia
- most is brain myocardium lungs, kidneys, spleen
- the more vulnerable for hypoxia are important organs for living.
pattern of vascular supply
-if one of the branches of an arterial tree is blocked it is bad and the area of the heartwill die
-if a person does lots of physical activity, they can develop collateral BVs which will
compensate when one branch is blocked. The portion of the heart will not undergo
infarcts.
-this helps us to survive.
-get anastomoses in the brain by studying and training your brain.
-ANASTOMOSIS
- the union of branches of two or more arteries supplying the samebody region.
- means coming together.
the oxygen delivery capacity of the blood
- the RBC number in the blood
- and if they can carry oxygen
- we are talking about ANEMIA- decreased RBCs or decreases hemoglobin
- if it is decreased, the oxygen carrying capacity of blood is decreased and these peopleare more susceptible to infarction.
rate of development of occlusion
-whether there is slow development of ischemia or if it develops immediately
-the science of ischemic heart disease develops when the occlusion is 75% or more of the coronary artery
-before 75%, no signs and symptoms are seen.
-but if you get 50% occluded at a faster rate, it may show signs and symptoms of
ischemia.
embolism
the sudden occlusion of a blood vessel by an EMBOLUS- an abnormalmass moving with the blood stream
Thromboembolism
-the most common type of embolism that occurs in the blood
-it is formed inside the blood vessels so that is why it is more common
-destruction of venous thrombus (each has a point of attachment to the vascular wall)
but on the veins it is loose- so portions of this can be torn apart from the major body of the thrombus and flow with the blood and result in obstruction
venous (thrombo) embolism
-goes to specific area of the body- lungs.
-if a thrombus detaches in the leg, the vessels get wider as they go to the heart. Thediameter is too large for the embolism to clog it so when it finally gets to the little
capillaries of the lungs it is stopped. (it is stopped in the lungs if it is in the venous
system**)
arterial (thomrbo) embolism
-they usually begin at the heart.
-it will go to the aorta without any problem because the diameter is large but it stops inthe small arteries of the brain (since they are smaller) ischemic stroke (more
common)
-source of embolites:
Thromboembolism: Mitral stenosis- artificial valves promotes thrombosis. Thesepeople need to take anti coagulants for the rest of their life
Bacterial endocarditis- complications= stokes
TYPES OF EMBOLISMS
fat embolism
air embolism
amniotic fluid embolism
fat embolism
- develops when there is fracture of long bones
- the bone marrow in long bones contains fat which bleeds from these spaces and goesinto venous circulation globus of fat is found in the lungs.