| 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 |
