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Vascular Pathology
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7th Grade
04/23/2012

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Term
2 large cell vasculitides?
Definition
1) Temporal (giant cell) arteritis: segmental granulomatous inflammation of branches of carotid --> jaw claudication, blindness, headaches. Association w/ ppl >50 & polymyalgia rheumatica

2) Takayasu arteritis: "pulsless disease" --> inflammation of aortic arch @ branch points --> weak pulses in upper extremities. <50 y.o. in asian women.


both have an elevated ESR; both are treated w/ corticosteroids; both have granulomatous inflammation
Term
name 3 medium size vasculitides?
Definition
Medium size vasculitides --> muscular ateries that supply organs:
1) Polyarteritis Nodosa (everything but lung)
2) Kawasaki disease (coronary aneurysms in kids)
3) Buerger disease (smoking, autoamputation)
Term
young adult w/ HTN, abdominal pain w/ melena, neurologic disturbances & skin lesions. HBsAg(+). Biopsy of vascular lesions show lesions at various stages
Definition
Polyarteritis nodosa

early lesions: transmural inflammation w/ fibrinoid necrosis --> heals w/ fibrosis --> "string of pearls"

Tx w/ corticosteroids
Term
Fever like sx w/ rash on palms & soles, erythematous tongue. Coronary artery aneurysm may lead to MI in childhood
Definition
Kawasaki disease. Tx w/ aspirin (CONTRAINDICATED IN KIDS W/ VIRAL INFECTIONS b.c. of Reye's syndrome) OR IVIG
Term
Small vessel vasculitides (4)
1) Lung involvement?
2) Asthma association?
3) RPGN (crescentic)?
4) ANCA?
5) granulomas?
Definition
Wegners, Microscopic Polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura

1) all of them except HSP (but HSP usually follows a respiratory infection)
2) Churg Strauss (also peripheral eosinophilia)
3) Wegners; HSP has IgA nephropathy; All of them affect the kidney in some way (except maybe Churg-Strauss)
4) c-ANCA = Wegners; p-ANCA = MP & CSS
5) Granulomas = Wegners, CSS (w/ eosinophils); No granulomas in HSP & MP
Term
size of artery in:
1) Atherosclerosis
2) Arteriolosclerosis
3) Monckeberg medial calcific stenosis
Definition
1) Medium-large (thickening of media)
2) Small (hyalin or hyperplastic)
3) medium (benign; may be seen on mammography)
Term
What characterizes an atheroembolus (i.e. part of atherosclerotic plaque breaks off & lodges someplace upstream)
Definition
cholesterol clefts
Term
2 causes of hyaline arteriolosclerosis?
Definition
long standing benign HTN & diabetes

remember, hyaline arteriolosclerosis is due to proteins leaking into vessel wall.

The narrowing of the lumen causes end-organ ischemia classically producing glomerular scarring (arteriolonephrosclerosis) --> chronic renal failure
Term
Flea-bitten kidney
Definition
Malignant hypertension:
Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis (hyperplasia of smooth muscle, i.e. "onion skinning") --> fibrinoid necrosis of vessel w/ pinpoint hemorrhage ("flea-bitten")
Term
Mechanism of media weakening (producing aneurysm)in HTN & Marfan/ED
Definition
HTN: hyalin arteriolosclerosis of vasa vasorum --> ischemia of media --> atrophy

Marfan/ED/Loeys-Dietz: cystic medial degeneration (weakness of connective tissue)
Term
most common cause of death in aortic dissection?
Definition
cardiac tamponade

Other sequela: fatal hemorrhage, obtruction of branching arteries (from dissection down to them, e.g. coronary, renal)
Term
Give a little info on each thing:
1) Strawberry hemangioma
2) Cherry hemangioma
3) Pyogenic granuloma
4) Cystic Hygroma
5) Glomus tumor
6) Bacillary angiomatosis
7) Angiosarcoma
8) Lymphangiosarcoma
9) Kaposi's sarcoma
Definition
1) Kids, gets bigger then regresses
2) Elderly, doesn't regress
3) can ulcerate & bleed; pregnancy & trauma; skin or oral mucosa
4) Turners; cavernous lymphagioma in neck
5) Painful; under fingernail
6) Aids; B.henselae
7) Liver; Vinyl chloride, Arsenic, Thorotrast
8) Seen w/ chronic lymphatic obstruction (e.g. radical mastectomy)
9) HHV8, AIDS, Older european males, transplant recipients; tumor of endothelial cells
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