Pathology

Anatomy and Physiology

  • physiology: study living organisms

    • cells→tissue→organs→systems

    • bio processes of living things (metabolism, circulation, respiration) how contribute to health and homeostasis

      • homeostasis→ baseline/balance/equilibrium

      • think bp

Pathophysiology

  • study of abnormal ohysiological processes

    • disease and injusy

  • what causes

    • stress, trauma, injury

The cell and disease

  • diseases begin with something wrong with structure/function of cell, cause changes that can be detected and monitered

Stress and Adaptation

  • cause of pathology

  • what is stress

    • physical/ emotional response to demand/challenges

      • increase in heart rate (physical activity= challenge), increase in demand

    • fear/anxiety, change in climate, privation (something use to being there isnt anymore), joy/excitment, physical activity

  • affect normal cell funciton, cell must adapt to maintain fucntion

    • no maintain=injury/maladatptive changes

  • when respong/try to maintian function price to pay

    • how do cells adapt

      • atrophy, hypertrophy, hperplasia, metapalasia, dysplasia

        • atrophy: waste away/ degeneration of cells, dont use it you lose it think muscles and lack of use

        • hypertrophy: cells get bigger

          • physiological: cell got bigger but has support to do so (cardiac muscle increase in size as athlete work out)

          • pathological: cell bigger in size but no support increase (hypertension, enlargement of the heart)

      • basic cellular adaptations

        • hyperplasia: too many cells growing, in response to horomonal stimulation ( think preg and enlargemd breast tissue bc of estrogen)

          • only in cells capable of mitosis

            • can be maladaptive bc of genetics, cell number increase too much ( keloid formation)

        • metaplasia: cells change bc of genetic reprogramming to ensure survival ( one cell type to another)

          • think gerd: lower esophagela cells transform from squamous epithilium to columnar mucois producing cells because of stress in order to protect from splashing acid

          • if treat and get rid of stress can change back, somewhat reversable

        • dysplasia: cells have adapted (maladaptive) non reversebal

          • deranged cellular growth, cells stressed→ dont work right→ become deranged and strange

            • dna mutation/chronic inflammation (precancerous condition)

          • cells vay in size shape and organization

        • neoplasia cancer: new growth, disorganized and uncoordinated, cancerous bc dna mutation

  • Mechanisms of cell injury

    • cells adapt and try to mainatain fucnton but get hurt

      • physical injury

        • something ohysically happen to cell

      • hypoxic

        • no/low oxygen, happen often bc of decreased bloodflow

        • no blood to cell

        • aerobic metabolism stops (krebs cycle, atp production)

          • potassium leak out sodium leak in, mess up e gradient for electric potential activity, k na pump doesnt work with no atp, sodium stays in cell, cell swells, cell loses ability to function

            • if not using aerobic metabolism stwitch to anaerobic metabolism

              • end product is lactic acid, bad cfor cell,s damage cell membrane/mitochndria/structure

            • double edged sword: hypoxic injury, low blood flow, anaerobic metabolism, lactic acid , two bad things happening

        • metabloic things happening in body, make waste and manage, need to get rid of, overuse metabolism create too much waste and start to damage cell

          • use lots of resources/metabolic waste

        • free radicals (weird types of oxygen, cause damage to body), as form throughout day get rid of unless overdue

          • molecules with unpaired electron on outer shell, unstable (atom like to have even number e on outer shell, will steal and damage other )

        • usulayy get fixed by antioxidants inhibit action of

        • free radicals mess with other cells make more free radicals, xidative stress is damage when body cant keep up with waste formation (ROS)

          • damage to cell, dna, vital organs, lipid peroxidation (mem surround mitochind)

      • Antioxidants

        • inhibit activity of excess waste ROS ,packages in peroxisomes

        • enzymes and vitamins, works unless unreasonable

        • antioxidant supplements in clinical studies had no benefit and may be harmful

          • causes cell damage

        • cell makes antioxidants on location atht eh time, not in pill

      • Calcium Damage (ischemia)

        • cells usually mantian low intracellular calcium

        • busy ion, involve in many metabolic process, so active dont want too much in cell

          • will start things in cell prematurely, only let in cell when ready for it

          • sometimes too much extracellular calcium get in bc cellular damage/no atp, start processes and uses up atp cause cell damage

        • calciu will open gates to allow more calcium in, calcium cascade, the worse it gets the worse it gets

      • Cell is injured, if reverisble: cell heal and recover and back to work

        • may get pulled out apoptosis and program cell removal, or just die (necrosis)

  • cell injury reversible

    • cell heal itself, direct injury, water move into cell and disrupt

      • bleb out piuching, cell membrane stretched out of shape, cytoskeleton cllapse, all organelles swell ans stop funciton

    • reverisble bc nucleus is ok and can have info to fix the cell

  • sometimes not reversible, necrotic cell death (ishcemia no blood flow, toxic, mechanical injury)

    • cell rupture and contents spill into surrounding area, trigger inflammatory mediator

    • nectroic cell damage rest of cells around it, shrunken nucleus means pynknosis, degraded nucleus = karyolysis

  • tissue infarction: too much cellular death, prolonged ischemia

    • myocardial infarction, cardiac muscle no blood flow and die

    • decrease blood flow cause death of that tissue

  • apoptosis: programmed cell death

    • damage or worn out cell is very quietyly taken out of line and gotten rid of, no cells bothered

    • activate capspases, lysosomes with enzymes that begi process apoptosis, break down protien and dna

      • no infmammation, debris engulf by wbc

    • initated by: normal wearing out of cell

      • loss of survival signals, mitochndrila damage/dna damage

        • if old and worn out go apoptosis

        • telomere too small cause apoptosis

      • survival signals (cell talk to one another, tissue too big, cell cant get message, cell gets old and

  • mitochndiral damage

    • energy source damage, cell will die (ischemia/toxins)

  • Gene P53

    • repair dna damage, look for trouble and repair, will fix cell if fixable, cell alive but no funciton properly will just live, sometimes initiate apoptosis

    • gene P53 can not fix and start apoptosis in dna damage cell, cell will keep reporducing→ malignant tumor

  • Necrotic tssue

    • cell death and degredation

      • can undergo liquificatio, coagulation, infarcation, caseous necrosis

        • cell ontents release, causes inflammation

        • liquifaction: causes to slough away, caseus necrosis causes holes (cheeselike)

  • Gangrene: large area necrotic tissue

    • dry: lack arterial blood supply but venous flow carry fluid out tissue, coagulate

    • wet gangreme: lack venous flow, fluid accumulate, tissue liquefy and infect

    • gas ganrene: clostriduim infection porduce toxins and H2S bubbles (hydorgen sulfide bubbles in tissue)

  • Stress Response

    • alarm→ stresshoromones→ body wide changes

    • eustress: stimulte person in positive way

    • distress: stimulate perosn in negative way, hysical and emorional

      • whole boyd respond

    • Acute stress: happen intermittenltly, specific thing cause stress and will be relieve d when go away

    • chronic stress: prolonged activation of stress response, linked to cancer, immune suppresion, plarkinsosn, depression

  • Hans Selye: general adaptive syndrom

    • descibed as coordinated response to stressor, sawy innate adaptive ability to maintain hmeostaiss

      • alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

  • General Adaptation Syndrome

    • when have stress body will respond (horomones)

      • 4 system activate:

        • cotricol )adrenal cortex)

        • epi and norepi(adrenal medulla/neurons  

          • sns activation

        • antidiuretic horomone (adh come from posterior pituary

        • renin angiotensis aldosterone : kidney/adrenal contrec

    • cortisol: regulate stress repose, divert metabolism so no build tissue to supllying enegery for dealing with stress, cause sign/symptom of chrinic strss

    • release causes incrwde blood sugar, stronger symp system effect on heart, use energy in activity like hormones, anabolic activity and repdoductive functons, bone formation, rwb and wbs protection, immun systme. become depressed

  • Emergency activity: epi and nor epi (adrenaline/nor adremalin)

    • increase hr, periheral vasocontriction, everything peripheral force blood bakc to heart blood and brain, blood pressurengo up, lack of blood flow to internal organs, cause kidneys to stop working

  • sympathetic system: stress repsonse

    • rapid resoponse to trauma/emrgency, attach to adreklin and nopepineprhim, both attach onto adgrenergic recpetos on cells

  • blood prssure restoured, flow back to skin/guts/ kidney reduce, skin apale. urine production decreases, GI activity decreades

    • ADH: antidiureitic horomone, cause peripheral vasoconstricution, kidney reabosrb water into blood from urine

  • RAA: renin angiotensin aldosterone: activated by symp system, decrease bf, angiotensis converting ezye=me, angiotensin, stronger vasocontricton ( II)

  • stimulate adrenal contrex, aldosterone release, kidney reabsorb sodiuma dn water, excrete K+

PAtient Assemsment s/p MVA

  • increase heart rate, no urine production, no bowel sounds, pale/sweaty skinm low blood pressure, dilated pupils, elevted blood glucose

    • priority is low blood pressure, epi and nor epi are working to restore, give him fluid (iv) and blood bc fluid level is low

Response to stressor


Neoplasia: A Disorder of Cell Proliferation and DIfferentiation

  • cancer: patients come for problem also have cancer

  • prevalence of diagnosis: breast and prostate, dying of lung and colon

  • Cell cycle

    • Go cell: resting cell, cells activley doing cell stuff, get signla to divinde→ g1 phase (protiens and resources to grow and divide)→ S phase, gathered stuff and now synth dna→ g2 phase, cell snth structures to seperate→ then splits in hald (2 daughter cells, spend time getting organized, then becom working cells)

    • number of cell produce = to number of cell die, will get signal/growth factor (from nearby tissue/far away) , only stable cells affected by signal.

    • cyclins make sure cell has everything it needs

      • protiens, dna rep correct (if not do aptosis), measure whether cell is large enough to divid

  • Normal cells mature and work

    • go to work once stable, stop reporducng

  • Neoplasia

    • cell proliferation: process cell division, mech replace cell

    • cell differentiation: process specialization, cell acquire structure and function

      • cacer caused by abnormality in these

  • CAtegories cell types

    • undifferentiated (stem), when divide produce progenitro cell (mkae more)

    • poorly differentiated cells (parent/progenitor cell) divide as needed to be working cell in future

    • well differentiated (neurons/thyroid)

      • working cells

    • proliferation (orderly cell replacement)

      • stem cell divided one daughter and one progenitor, duaghter cells become more differentiated as divide until working cell

    • differentiation: less specialized cell develop to aquire more specialized form and funciton

      • getting ready to work

    • bone marrow, make something thatmay be lymphocyte in the future, become more specialized as continueto divide

  • Oncogenesis

    • normal cell to cancer cell

    • 2 gene mutation

      • proto oncogene: normal gene control normal cell division

        • mutaton turn to oncogene, unlimited/abnormal division

        • act abnormally, make abnormal protiens, make too uch/little of protien, not packaged properly/delivered

          • tumor supressor genes can come and fix this, if it mutates as well is also oncogene

      • tumor suppressor gene: repair gene p53

        • fail to kill off nd adamaged cells

    • intiation: mutation

    • promotion: divide

    • progression: tumor cell compete and make more mutatiom and more aggressive

  • Characteristics cancer cells

    • will proliferate to form new tissue, just keep dividing and drainign resources, dont mature normally, differentiste, do job, will do too much or abnormal or too little of the tissue, missing out on fucntion

    • dont die off, no death of cell, immortal,

    • extend tissue boundaries, invade nearby tissue

      • metastasis

        • cells break off, get into blood, go downstream, metastisize/move/spread,

        • once grow will change rgan fucntion (take up resources, space, damage, failure)

        • suprress veins and nerves, cause pain and lack of bloodflow

        • people lose weight, muscle waste, anemia, fatigue

  • Generalized Effects of Cancer

    • cancer cachexia syndrome

      • wasting, weight loss, muscle waste, weakeness, anorexia, anemia

  • Why?

    • sometimes just genetic, hereditaty

    • horomones

    • carconogens/radiation

    • oncogenic viruses

    • immunologic mechanisms

      • NKC declien with age

  • Neplasia Terminology

    • tumor: swelling/inflammation, cellular overgorwth

      • benign: well differentiated/contained

        • crowd other tissue, take resources

      • malignant tumor: undifferentiated cells/not contained

        • spread/metastisis

        • take resources

  • Any cell can mutate

    • but differentiated working cell mutate, form bening/working tumor

    • undifferentiated rapidly divide, form malignant tumor

  • beningn tumor

    • contain tissue look like nromal tissie

    • may perform normal fucntion of the tissue (secrete horomone, may over secretion, or secrete wrong/not effective)

    • no capusle around them, do not invade neighbor tissue, but damage organ by compressing/crowding

  • Malignant Tumor



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Cells of innate immunity

  • present at birth,

  • cells of innate imunity

    • macrohages; fixed/migrate

      • release cytokines

    • start healing process

  • dnedritic cells: antigne presenting cell

  • Natura KIller cell

    • indiff lymphocytes

  • Complement

    • seies 20 plasma protiens, enhance immune/inflamm functions

      • opsonization (coat bacteria as invador)

      • chemotaxis (cytokines to attract immune/inflamm cells)

      • cell mem attack complex (final event in complete cascade)

        • poke holes

  • Adaptive/Aquired Immmunity

    • specific cell attack specific antigen after exposure

      • humoral (antigen/antibody)

        • b cell become plasma cell

      • cell mediated

        • t cell program to attack specific antigen

    • active v passive

      • active: body make anitbodies against think you are exposed to, will make antbody again if needed

      • passive: given antibodies from someone else/somtjing else

        • antibody can be transmittes from mother to baby

  • Lymphocytem Development

    • aquired immune cells

      • stem cells→ b cell mature in bone marrow→t cells mature in the thymus→ move to lymph nodes to wait for antigen-presenting cell to activate

  • T lymphocytes

    • t helper cells/telesytotoxic cell

    • CD4?CD8

    • cd4

      • master of rugulator of innue systme

    • cd8

      • cd8 recpetior qttach to marked to invadors, kill inflectios


  • Anitgen Presenitng Cell

    • tell immune system what to attack

    • macrphages, dendritic cells, food,

  • CD4: Helpter I clellls

    • release cytokines

      • messengers, control both types of immune system

    • inate: activated neutrophil, macrohages, NKS,

    • Aquired

      • cause B cell to become plasma/memory

      • call CD8s to kill invadors

      • inflammatory mediators, WBC growth. factor


  • B lympocytes: activated by cdt 4

  • activated? memory b cell continue moniter for antigen

    • plasma cell create antobody that attach to the antigen to mark/destroy it

  • Antigen Epitope Antibody

    • antbody created to match identifying charac on antigen cell mem, called epitopes

  • Antibody/Immunoglobulins

    • no mem each, be aware that this is what we use to protect cell

  • Primary Immune Response

    • macrophage engulf antigen→presnt to cd4 cell→activate b cell→ b cell make antobody→ plasma antobody level rise w/in 3 2weeks→ vaccination produces primary immune response

  • Secodnary Immune System

    • b mem cells repsond to antigen immediatly ( no cd4 effect)

    • plasma antobody levels rise w/in days, booster shots


Alterations in the Immune Response

  • Immune Disorders

    • Primary

      • result genetic issue

      • genetic defect of b or t cell action

    • secondary

      • develop later in life in repsonse to another disease process

      • hodgkins/viral infections

    • Hypersensitivity

      • excessive/innapprop. activation of the immune response

        • body damaged by repsonse, not antigen


  •  Type 1 hypersensitivty

    • allergic rxn , anaphalactic response/local

    • aquired/genetc

      • annoying rhinitis

      • debilitatinf bronchial asthma

      • life threatening anaphyplaxis

    • normally when exposed to antigen ex pollen, make antibodies against that thing

    • antobody hook up to mast cells ,responsible for keeping saf e from nonliving things

    • when mast cell sees allergen again will degranulate and dump out contents and fight

      • small and usual and needed, release histamine

    • really excessive response

  • Mast cell degranulation

    • when dump out have histamine, abnormally high amounts of hsitamine

      • vasodilation, bronchocontriction, vascular permeability

        • capillary (1 cell thick), histamine causes vessel to get bigger, cells move away from one another, whatever in capillary dump out into tissue (edema)

        • shortness of breath, edema, angioedema, constircts airway (swelling), itching, mucus production

  • hypersensitivity rxn is 2 step process

    • initial release of histamine and others

    • when all of those mast cells break down, all of those cells are open, cell membranes laying around have to clean

    • body break them down, when break down cell emmbranes have arachidonic acid (prostoglandins, thromboxane, leukotriene)

    • causes more vasodilation, pain, clotting, respiratory issues

  • type 1 sensitivity is double whammy

  • Anaphyplaxix life threatening type 1

    • systmeic repsonse to inflammatory mediator released in type 1 hypersensitivity, vasodilation all over, BP low

    • bronchoconstriction, cant breath, shortness of breath, low blood oxygenation level

    • epi cause increase in hr, increase in bp, open up airways


  • Autoimmune diseases type II,III, iV

    • failure to recognize self (MHCI)

    • immune system attacks and destorys body tissues

    • anti tissue antibodies appear in blood

      • ex. anti thyroid antibdies

    • Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC)

      • sefl identifier foundon all cells, autoimmune, mhci is defective

  • Type II hypersensitivity

    • antibody mediated hypersensitivity

    • create antibodies against self cell/self receptor

    • block normal function

    • myasthenia gravis antibodies against nm receptors, neruomuscular activate muscle antibodies block muscle movement, muscle meakness

  • Type II hypersensitivity   

    • Accumulation of antigen antibody complexes in blood vessels and tissues, fail to be cleared

    • tissue damage→ inflammation

      • systmeic lupus erythematosus

        • SLE

      • rheumatoid arthritis

    • immune complexes deposited in tissue and activate inflammation, tissue is damaged

  • Type IV hypersinsitivity

    • delayed

    • t cells, mean to be alerted to specific antigens, abnormal sensitized t cells attack tissue

    • often occur after viral illness

    • like cell mediated but t cells (not b cells) are activated to attack normal tissue

      • allergic contact dermatitis

        • latex/poison ivy

    • usually delayed, take time to develop

  • Treatment for Autoimmune

    • treat the symptom not the cause

      • antiinflammatory drug

        • cause gastrointesinal upset and bleeding

    • immunosuppression

      • leave patient vulnerable to infection, changes in metabolic function

        • steroids, cortisol/cortisone/prednisone, slow down immune system and syptoms get better, dont want to do for very long

        • in catabolic state, metabolis dont function properly, calcium problems

  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    • transmitted body fluids

      • sexual contact (fluids

      • breast milk

      • blood to blood contact

        • transfusions/transplant

        • during pregnancy/birth

        • contaminated needles

    • HIV infects a cell

      • virus attaches to cd4 receptors on t cell and enter cell, cd4 master controller of immune response

      • take out master controller fo immune system, make copies of itself

      • reverse transcriptase convert rna to dna, dna produce new virons, virons released

    • HIV diagnosis

      • seroconverson

        • immune system repsonds and antibodies against HIV appear (1-6) months

      • elisa

        • enzye linked immunosorbent assay, detects antbodies, not definitive

      • western blot

        • highly specific

    • cours eof HIV infection

      • primary infection phase

        • signs of sytmeic infeciton

          • fever, sore throat, myalgias, gi problem

        • within 4 weeks, last 7-10 dyas

        • less time to mutate, less long living virus

        • diagnosis at this time    

          • reduces number of long living infected cells, maintains homogenous viral population

      • latent period

        • virus replicating, cd4 cell count falls

        • may last 10-11 years or longer

      • overt aids

        • cd4 count less than 200 cells per meruculiter

        • or aids defining illness

    • Aids Defining Illnesses

      • opportuistic infections

        • repsiraotry pneumocytisis carinii

        • gastrointestinal cryptosporidiosis

        • salmonella

        • nervous system cytomegalovirus

      • aids dementia complex

      • malignancies kaposi sarcoma, lyphoma

      • wasting syndrome

        • 10% of baseline body weight with diarrhea

    • Managing Aids

      • viral load (plasma HIV RNA)

        • number of viruses/ml keep below 5000

          • more than 5000 sympton anti viral treatment

        • cd4 t cell counts keep above 500 ul

          • less than 200 ul severe symptoms

            • begin treatment for opportunistic infections

        • self management

          • complex treatment many dugs several times/day

          • adverse effects of drugs and drug interactions

          • cost



Inflammation and Tissue Repair

  • too much inflammation is bad, last step in process is tissue repair

  • inflammation

    • coordinated response to injury, reaction popportional to size of injury

      • purpose is to protect, keep injury in one place and prevent spread

      • call body defense and start healing

  • two types inflammation

    • acute inflammation: happen rapidly, work fast over few hours/days

    • chronic inflammation: occur when inflammatory repsonse persist, inhibit healing, cause continual cell damage and organ dysfunction

  • Tissue Injury

    • any time there is tissue injury, tissue will release chem called inflammatory mediators

      • begin/control/end inflammatory rpocess, in control of bdy response to injury and lead itno healing process

  • Acute Inflammatory Process

    • stages overlap

    • 1. vasodilation

      • vascular permeability: capillary is vessel 1 cell thick, when dilate, cells of wall pull away from one another, fluid and particles in blood can leave vessel and go into tissue

    • 2. cellular chemotaxis

    • 3. systemic repsonses

  • Vasoldilation/Vascular Permeability

    • inflammatory mediator, vessel dilation and permability

      • resources come into area as result (fluid, bwc, platelets, plasma protien) (interstitial space)

      • cause tissue to swell (edema)

  • Acute inflammation

    • increased hydrostatic pressure in the vessel

      • hydrostatic pressure is pressure fluid exert against walls of container

      • in vascular space where blood is, fluid pushing against walls (blood pressure)

    • decreased colloid osmotic pressure in the vessel

      • particle pull water towards them, inflammatory mediators have opened wall, water coming out with particles, particle pull decrease

  • Edematous Fluid

    • when fluids move into tissue, called exudate

      • pureulent exudate rich in rpotien from wbc, microbrial organisms, and cellular debris

        • pus

      • serous/transudate

        • little protien mainy water filtrate of blood (fluid in blister)

  • It starts with

    • tissue damage→ inflammatory mediator→ vasoactive and chemotactic factors→ pain, heat, redness, swelling

      • cardinal signs of inflammation

    • loss of function follows

  • stage 2 cellular chemotaxis

    • cellular chemotaxis, when wbc move into area (neutrophils), call for help, send out for cytokines (chemotaxis), bring wbc to area destory infective agent, remove damgae cells, release more inflammatory meidators

  • stage 3 sstemic response

    • inflammatory meidators in blood

      • inflammaotyr mediatros go out to world, liver and brain bring about systemic responses

  • Inflammatory Substances

    • w/in body

    • inflammatory mediator: vasoldilation and vascular permeability.

    • TNFa IL

    • histamine (vasodilation) protoglandins, leukotrines

    • interleuken, (ILs) histamine (invoved ateriolar vasodilatio, bhronocontriction

    • protaglandins, pyrogen, veasodilaton, permability pain

  • Systemic repsonse

    • inflammaotry mediators, thermo regulatory cneter →

      • fvere

    • liver c reaction protien (CARP), increased bincrease (CRP)

      • inflammatory marlet supports immun fucntion like compliment

  • WHite blood cell differential

    • bands = mormal, wbc,

  • Fever

    • microbes, bacterial prpdicts, cyokines act aspyrogens (substace cause feb

    • pyrogens active protoglands to reset hypothalamic temp, eg, club

  • Fever the chill

    • pyrogenic comound i brain, raise set pt for thermostate in hpo→ body thin too cold , hear production

      • shivering/vasoconstriction

  • Fever the heat

    • temp riases to new set point

      • body thinks its war enough→ warm enough→ begin to lower temperature → sweating, wasolailation

  • Healing

    • body looking better, after trying to fight off antigen

      • macrpophage activate

    • need lots of resource,s lots can interfere

    • nutrition and oxygen, good circulation, immune system

      • anything else (heart oniter, obesity, lupu

    • put patient in best possible location to hkl

    • Tissue healing

      • 1st intention healing, heal from inside

      • 2nd tissue intention

    • 1. inflammatory process

    • 2. proliferative phase

    • 3. fibroblast synthesize and secret collagen

      • growth factors: angiogenesis and epithilial cell proliferation

  • Proliferation: granualtion tissue connective tissue and microscopic blood vesels highly vascular cobblestone like

    • hyper granulation ove the edge

  • Contraction Remodelling

    • collangenase: reducse size of scar

    • fibroplasts: rpoduce more collagen to increase strength

  • Complictons of Wound Healing

    • Keloid: hyperplasia of scar tissue

    • contractures: inflexible shrinkage of tissue

    • dehiscence: opening of wound suture line

    • evisceration: opening would with extrusion of tissue and organs

    • stricture: narrowing of a tubular body passage from formation of scar tissue

    • fistula: abnormal connection between two epithilium or vessels

    • adhesions: internal scar tissue between tissues or organs

  • Patient with tuberculosis

    • fever, productiove cough, bloody sputum

      • pyrogens cause fever

      • in SOB lung consolidated with fibrous protiene exhausted

      • multi drug therapy, thoyght he was cured

      • three years later, x ray shows nodules in lungs told he had TB bacteria

  • healing takes place in place of chronic inflammation= scar tissue


Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS)

  • inflammatory mediators travel everywhere after you dont get better

    • something bad has happened, inflammatory rpocess came and stayed

    • infection (bacteremia, fungemia, parasitemia, verimia) → sepsis→sirs

    • inflammaotry repsonse goes systemic

      • vasodilation everywhere, fluid goes everywhere out into tissue (maldistribution)

    • body knows something bad is happening, so chronic activation of inflammation mechanism

      • lead to hypermetablims and depletion of resources

        • not getting more resources

    • clinical manefestations

      • look at temperature (pyrogens)

      • heart rate 90< (what is effecting it)

      • measuring carbon dioxide in the blood

      • respiratory rate (>20)

      • wbc count, too low or too high is bad

        • bands greater than 10?

  • systemic manifestations

    • mediators of inflammation (fluid shift, hypoxemia, edema)

    • brain: fever, fatigue, malaise, appetite suppression, sleepiness, shivering

    • marrow: wbc, bands

    • muscles: catabolism to provide amino acids

      • aches pains and fatigue (cortisol)

    • liver: c reactive protien inflammatory marker

    • prodromal of worsening condition

  • Types of shock

    • 3 types, caused by different things

    • distributive shock: poor perfusion because of capillary incompetence ( no 02 bc inflammatory mediators)

    • cardiogenic shock: poor perusion because of myocardial incompetence (heart not pumping blood)

    • hypovolemic shock: poor perfusion because of blood volume loss

  • Distributive shock

    • adequate perfusion depends on balance among: curculatinf blood volume, pumping ability of heart, size of vascular space (tone and adequacy of microcirulation)

  • Septic shock

    • bacterial endotoxin (bacteria in blood)

      • as bacteria die, release toxins, act as inflammatory mediators

    • vasodilation, increased capillary permeability

  • Anaphylactic shock

    • mast cell degradation (histmaine, leukotriene kinins, prostoglandind, inflammatory mediators)

      • huge amount vasoldilation and increased capillary permeability

        • loss of circulating fluid volume

  • microcirculation

    • hypotension

      • edema, wet lungs (posterior base of lungs, crackles (water, wheezing means obstruction)) decreased urine output (no blood flow to kidney)

      • fatigue, malaise

  • Distributive Shock

    • some intial event, Stage 1: initiate stress repsonse

      • systemic infection/anaphylaxis

        • lower systemic blood pressure

        • MAP (mean arterial pressure) 40-60 critical hypoperfusion

        • MAP less than 40, minimal perfusion

      • aerobid to anaerobic metabolism

        • decreased atp production

          • cell swell

        • lactic acid

          • cell/dna damage

        • inflammation prolonged

    • Stage 2: Compensatory phase

      • warm shock

      • compensatory mechanisms attempt to maintain adequate blood flow

        • sympathetic ns response

          • increase hr and bp

        • activation raa

          • vasoconstriction and decreased urine output

        • adh

          • reabsorb h20 and sodium

        • cortisol

          • catabolic - increase blood glucose - direct repsurces at immediatie problem

      • compensetory mech: higher circulatinf volume, higher venous return, higher co and bp

        • goal is to return perfusion and cellular oxygenation to normal levels

    • Stage 3: progressive phase (cold shock)

      • failure of compensatory mechanisms

        • aggressive intervention, vasoconstricting medications

      • fluid resuscitation - crystalloid/colloid

      • decrease 02 use/increase 02 delivery

        • induced coma

      • nutritional support

        • tube down throat

      • antibiotics (septic shock)

    • Stage 4: refractory shock

      • if imbalance of 02 supply and demand wosens

      • cellular 02 debt increases

      • progression to refractory shock state

        • recovery not possible

  • More bad news

    • multiple organ disfuntion syndrome

      • acute renal failure, acute repiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), dissmeniated intravascular coagulation (DIC)

  • DIC

    • big area of tissue die

    • removal of underlying cause

    • supportive therapy,

    • replacing clotting factors (FFP)

      • can increase clotting

    • anti-fibrinolytics

      • can increase bleeding\


Oxygen Transport

  • rbc born in bine marrow, not differentiated yet

  • have all the organelles

    • as grow produce hmolgobin, have large endoplastic reticulum(make protiens) (synthesizing), small golgi bodies (packaging)

    • when mature they lose their endoplasmic reticulum (make protien), lose their mitochondria (make atp), lose lysosome

  • rbs have boconcave shape, large surface area carry/exchange oxygen

    • made up of spectrin (internal structure), allow flexibility in capillaries

    • inside have hemoglobin (carry o2)

      • 2 alpha chanin, two beta chain

        • each protien chain have 1 iron containing heme group

          • 02 bind to heme grouo

  • erythropoieses

    • proccess make rbc

      • redcreased blood oxygen→tissue hypoxia→ kidney secrete erythropoetin (hormone)→ bone marrow stimulated→ create new rbc

  • red blood cells

    • in adults this process occur in sternum, vertebrae, ribs, and pelvis

      • immature rbc (nucleated

        • reticulocytes (rbc w/ endoplasmic reticulum)

      • bone marrow creare new rbc, may release, mature rbs

    • live for ab 120 days, membrane weakened, no nuclei, can not make new membrane components

      • eventually rbc break as they squeeze through the capillaries

    • most rbc processed in spleen, wbc in spleen proccess rbc (junk/trashed) create unconjugated bilirubin (broken down hemoglobin)

      • is toxic to patient, liver mus process

      • connect to gluconoride, excrete in bile

      • if liver isnt workinf right or abnormally large number rbc, have bilirubenemia

        • jaundice (bilirubiniemia lodge in skin)

          • look for in whites of eyes, mucous mem, nails

        • caused by liver failure or hemolysis

  • RBC lab values

    • cell count

    • prcnt reticulocyte

      • rate production

    • hgb/hct

      • hemoglobin/hematocrit count

    • mean corpuscular volume

      • mcv (size rbc)

    • mean corp Hgb concentration

      • amount hgm in each cell, color (chromic)

    • anemia    

    • classified by: size (micro/macro cytic)

      • color (normo/hypochromic

  • Hematorcit

    • centrifuge, make rbc settle at bottom, wbc at top

      • normal v anemia v polycthemia

  • Causes Anemia

    • low rbc count

    • nutritional problems

    • deficient rbc production

    • blood loss/destruction

      • nutritional problems:

        • iron deficiency anemia

          • dietary deficiency

        • vitamin b12/folic acid deficiency

          • need for rbc production

          • intrinsic factor from parietal cell of stomch (absorb b12)

        • malabsorption

          • surgical problem, dietary (ETOH, alcohol, hard on parietal cells), neoplasm, inflammation, infection, acid blocking drugs

          • replace iv better than po

          • neurological defects

      • Iron deficiency Anemia

        • hypochromic and microctic erythrocytes

          • poikilocytosis (irregular shape)

          • anisocytosis (irregular size)

      • Pernicious anemia

        • parital cells secrete hcl and intrinisic factor

        • without, no b12 absorption

        • antiacid drugs

          • prilosec/pepcid

        • alcohol, bypass surgery

        • megablastic anemia

          • erythrocytes are large w oval shape

          • poikolycytosis and teardrop shape

          • neutrophils are hypersegmented

      • Deficient RBC production

        • aplastic anemia

          • abnormal stem cell

            • fatty replacement of bone marroq

          • radiation, chemical, toxins

          • bone marrow toxin

        • chronic disease anemia (most common)

          • chronic inflammation, lack of resources

          • chronic renal failure

        • weakness, no o2 to make atp bc no xygen in blood

        • angina

        • pallor (no hemoglobin)

        • sweating

        • tachydardia

        • confusion

    • Blood loss anemia

      • bled, internal or external

      • hemolysis

        • excessive detruction rbc

          • hemolytic anemias

            • making rbc but they keep degenerating, hemoglobemia, o2 low

            • aquired hemolytic anemias

              • drugs, toxins, idiopathic

              • atibodies from the mother (hmeolytic disease of the newborn)

                • hemoglobinopathies

                  • sickle cell disease

                    • hemolysis and vessel occulsion

                  • thalassema (mediterranean)

                    • defect of a/b chain in hgb

  • Sickle cell

    • mutation on beta chain of hemoglobin

      • when hemoglobin deoxygenated, beta chain link together form long protien rods (sickle)

      • tissue ischema begin cycle again

      • treat w/ geneic therapy

    • occlude vessles, clots, adhere to vessel walls (tissue hypoxia), the worse it gets the worse it gets

    • problems caused

      • sickle cells block capilaries

        • acute pain, infarctions (large area nectrotic tissue )

          • damage liver, spleen, heart, kidney, eyes, bones

        • pulmonary infarction→ acute chest syndrome

        • cerebral infarction→ stroke

      • sickle cells more likely to be destroyed

        • jaundice

  • Interventions for cickle cell

    • avoid hot/cold, strenuous exercise

    • keep weel hydrated, balance diet, avoid tigt clothing

  • look at concept map

  • ABO blood groups

    • antigen (rbc), antibody (plasma)

    • type a: antibodies against b/ab, can have a or o

    • type b: cnat have a/ab, can have b/o

    • type AB: can have any type of blood, universla recipient

    • type o: only have o blood, is universal donor

  • Rh factor

    • express the d natigen positive

    • no expression d, negative

      • rh- mom/rh+baby

        • mom develop antibodies to rh+ blood,

        • eryhtroblastosis fetalis

          • fetus dies bc antibodies attach baby

        • rhogam anti- antibody for mom


Disorders of White Blood Cells

  • Abnormal wbc production

    • leukocytosis: increase wbc

    • leukopenia: decrease in wbc

    • neutropenia: low wbc count

      • agranulocytosis (neutrophils)

    • aplastic anemia

      • all bone marrow cells

  • Etiology and Treatment wbc production disorders

    • etiology: infection, chemo drugs, radiation, splenomegaly ( decrease in circulate rbc, wbc, platelt), antibiotics, antipsychotic agents, genetics

    • treatment: underlying problem, hemapoietic drugs

      • force bone marrow make moe wbc, human granulocte colony stimulating factor

      • filgrastim/neupogen (neulasta)

  • Neoplasti disorder of blood cells

    • cancer of blood, 2 mutation

    • lymphoma or leukema

  • Leukemia v lymphoma

    • where it happens

    • leukemia: wbc formed and differentiate in bone marrow, where mutation occurs (undifferentiated)

      • neoplasms arising here cause leukemia or plasma cell dyscrasias

      • malignant

    • lymphoma: wbs mature and travel to lymphodi organs to mature/develop, if mutation happen here, lymphoma

      • neoplasms arising here are lymphomas

      • benign

  • Lymphomas

    • hodgkins lymphoma (after left bone marrow, in spleen)

      • reed sternberg cells (malignant b cells)

        • are much bigger, rapidly divide, take up space/resources

          • 50 prcnt have ebstein barr virus in rs cells (closely associated)

      • arise in single node, grow fast and spread quickly

      • progressuve inavsion lymphoid tissue, eeventual inavsion all tissue

      • chemotherapy and radiation

    • non hodgkin lymphoma

      • associated w virus, immonusuppress, epstein bar visu, h pylori

        • b t nk cell

          • proliferation of abnormal cells

        • arise in lymph tissue, more common and aggressive

        • chemotherapy and radiation

          • good response to treatment bc high growth rate

  • Leukemia

    • in bone marrow, affect all cells in bone marrow (wbc, rbs, platelepts)

      • disruption of genes that control normal bc development

      • egentic and environmental factors

        • can occur as result of chemotharapy (bc dna damage)

      • diffuse replacement of bone marrow w/ unregulated proliferate, abnormal cells

        • fatigue, weight loss, nose bleeds, pallor, bone pain, infections

  • Leukema

    • acute: abnormal proliferation of immature blast cells

    • chronic: abnormal proliferation of better defined cells

    • myelogenous: myeloif stem cells, granulocyte, erthyrocyte and throbocyte

    • lymphocytic: immature lymphocytes

  • Leukemia affect bone marrow

    • bone pain, risk fracture/break

    • anemia (low rbc count, bc undifferentiated blood cells mutate, not producing correctly, bone marrow not making good rbc)

    • thrombocytopenia: bone marrow not maing platelets

    • immune suppression: abnormal wbc

  • abnormal wbc

    • release inflammatory mediators

      • tnfa and interleukin

        • increase capillary perm

    • infiltrate peripheral lymphoid organs

      • leave bone marrow

    • increase blood viscosity

      • too many blood cells

      • cause clotting

    • create waste products

      • cells break down, dump trash into gen circulation, build up

  • CHild w/ leukemia

    • fever/night sweats (inflammatory meidators)

    • appear pale/weak/fatigue (anemia)

    • cervical lymph node are inlarged (abnormal wbc infiltrate )

    • develop nosebleed (thrombocytopneia)

    • after chemotherapy develop hyperkalmia ( high level potassium in blood)


Alterations in Hemostasis

  • hemostasis

    • stopping abnormal blood flow, bllood in veins

      • normal:

        • coagulaion seal broken blood vessels

      • abnormal:

        • clotting abnorma, insifficietn

    • platelets aggregation

    • coagulation cascade

  • Platelets (thromobcyte)

    • thrombopoietin stim porduction

      • liver, kidney, smooth muscle, bone amrrow

    • megakaryocyte

      • form in bone marrow, break apart to form many platelt

    • platelt live for ab 8-9 days in circulation

      • store in spleen, release when need

  • Coagulation Factors

    • plasma protiens

      • synth by liver

      • von willebrand factor made by endothelium

      • roman numeral factors

      • produce the coagulation cascade

    • calcium (facotr IV)

      • essential in ann but 2 step

    • vitamin k

      • interact w/ protien for clotting factors

  • vessel injury and tissue injury

    • this is what happen coagulation

      • vessel injury, spasm, keep blood in vessel

      • cytokines are relased, inflammation, call platekets, paltelet activatign factor, platelet plug

        • plug in hole so stop bleed, chance to heal

          • platelet plug (vwf, factor vii)

        • bleeding stop coagulation cascade start

          • at end of process fibrinogen (protien produce by liver to form blood clot) gets switched and turned into fibrin, make clot overtop paltelt plug

            • fibrin gather like web, sew together

            • firbin cover up hole

          • healing process, fill in fibrin, clean it up, clot is still here

          • tissue will retract as finish up healing, if hapen quiclly cot will pop off

          • it will go down, reach vessel smaller than itself and stop blood flow

          • stop from happeneing by brekaing down clot very slowly

          • plasminogen trun into plasmin, goes to clots, break down itno peices, easily released, no clots back into plasma

  • Hypercoagulabilty (patient immobile)

    • increases platelet funciton

      • happen with many disease process (diabetes, hyperlipidemia, smoking dm,atherroscloerosis)

    • clotting activity

      • peganacy, oral contraceptivem immobility, post op, chif, malignancy

  • Platelt disorders

    • thrombocytosis (too many)

    • thrombocytompenia (too few)

      • few cause spontanues bleeding

      • decreased production

      • increased destruction/sequestrion

      • platelts used up in forminc clots

    • impaired platelt function

      • adp, txa, collagen etc

    • ITP

      • immune thrombocytopenia

        • auto immune destruciton of plateletls

        • kids recover adults chronic

        • bruising/bleeding, seteroid /immune suppressants

    • HIT

      • heparin induced thrombocytopeia

        • drug stop clotting from happening

        • used to be used indiscriminatley, doesnt stop site from clotting off, causes type 2 hypersensitivity

          • dont destroy, activate, little clots everywhere

        • autoimue formation of anitbody that activate platelet result in thrombosis

        • 5-7% of people who get heperain get issue, 1-5% fatal

          • purple toe disease

  • How does each cause bleeding

    • aplatic anemia

      • bleed bc low platelet

    • splenomegaly

      • all platelets in spleen

    • ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia purura)

      • platelt destroy

    • liver disease

      • plasma protien make up platelet cascade, come from liver

    • vitmain k deficiency

      • factor for coagulation