| name |
Info |
| Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis |
calcification of tunica media, medium sized, muscular arteries |
| Obliterans Arteriosclerosis |
proliferation intima, small vessels, complete obliteration of artery lumen |
| Peripheral Arteriosclerosis |
arteriosclerosis of extremites |
| Arteriosclerosis |
arterial wall becomes thick & loses elasticity |
| Atherosclerosis |
form of arteriosclerosis - patchy thickening of subintimal wall |
| Buerger's |
Male, smoker |
| Marfan's |
Dissecting aneurysm common |
| Prinzmetal |
angina at rest |
| Cor pulmonale |
right sided heart failure |
| Dissecting Aneurysm |
longitudinal cleavage of the arterial media by a column of blood |
| Dissecting Aneurysm |
tearing pain, acute onset |
| Berry Aneurysms |
Subarachnoid & intracerebral hemorrhage, hereditary, 40% ant. comm. art. (Circle of Willis) |
| Abdominal Aortic aneurysm |
can be asymptomatic, lumbar vertebrae pressure |
| Wolf's law |
change in anterior body from aneurysm |
| Patent Ductus Arteriosus |
congenital failure of closure between the pulmonary artery & aorta (up to 80% premature) |
| Cor Pulmonale |
can include emphysema & chronic bronchitis |
| Tetralogy of Fallot |
Dextrorotation of the aorta, Right ventricular hypertrophy, Intraventricular septal defect, Pulmonary artery stenosis |
| Rheumatic Fever |
Mitral & Aortic valves affected |
| Raynaud's Disease |
vasospastic disorder of small arteries (especially hands) |
| Microcytic Hypochromic |
Iron deficiency, Chronic hemmorrhage |
| Macrocytic normochromic |
Pernicious, Folate |
| Guiac Test |
hidden blood |
| portal hypertension |
esophageal varices |
| Helocobacter pylori |
ulceration in stomach |
| No Meissner's & Auerbach's |
Hirschsprung's |
| Air emboli |
deep sea diving |
| paradoxical embolism |
blockage of systemic artery by a thrombus originating in a systemic vein that has passed through a defect in the interatrial or interventricular septum |
| Miliary embolism |
affecting many small blood vessels |
| Stable angina |
pain with activity, emotional excitment or other increased cardiac work |
| Unstable angina |
close to MI, increased frequency, prolonged duration |
| Transmural infarction |
full of nearly full thickness of the ventricular wall |
| Subendocardial infarction |
inner 1/3 or at most 1/2 ventricular wall |
| Risk Factors for arteriosclerosis |
hypertension, inc. serum levels, smoking, DM, obesity & male |
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