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MoD S2 - Acute inflammation Flashcards

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Define acute inflammation and its purpose

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Response of living tissue to injury and is initiated to limit tissue damage

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List the features of acute inflammation

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Short duration, innate, stereotyped and immediate

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List the possible causes of acute inflammation

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  • Microbial infection
  • Chemical
  • Physical agents
  • Tissue necrosis
  • Hypersensitivity reactions
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What are the macroscopic consequences of acute inflammation?

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Rubor, dolor, calor, tumor and loss of function

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What are the two phases of acute inflammation?

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Vascular phase and cellular phase

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What changes in blood flow occur during the vascular stage of acute inflammation?

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  • Transient vasoconstriction of arterioles
  • Vasodilation of capillaries and arterioles
  • Increase in blood flow creates calor and rubor
  • Increased permeability of vessels means that there is more extrusion of protein rich fluid into tissues creating stasis in blood vessels
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What is oedema?

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Excess fluid in the interstitial

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What is the difference between transudate and exudate?

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Transudate has a low protein content whereas exudate is protein rich

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How does the body respond to oedema?

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Increased lymphatic drainage

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What are the different mechanisms of vascular leakage?

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  • Endothelial contraction
  • Cytoskeletal reorganisation
  • Direct injury
  • Leucocytic dependent injury
  • Increased transcytosis
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What causes each of these mechanisms to occur?

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  • Endothelial contraction‐ histamines, leukotrienes
  • Cytoskeletal reorganisation‐ cytokines, IL‐1 and TNF alpha
  • Direct injury
  • Leucocytic dependent injury‐ ROS and enzymes from leucocytes
  • Increased transcytosis‐ VEGF
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Outline the process of neutrophil infiltration of cells

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Margination‐ stasis causes neutrophils to line up along endothelium

Rolling‐ neutrophils roll along endothelium, stick intermittently

Adhesion‐ neutrophils stick avidly

Emigration‐ neutrophils move through blood vessel walls

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How do neutrophils move through blood vessel walls?

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Relaxation of inter‐endothelial cell junctions

Digestion of vascular basement membrane

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Define chemotaxis

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Movement of cells along the concentration gradient of chemoattractents

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List the chemotoxin molecules

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C5a, LT4B and bacterial peptides

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How do neutrophils carry out phagocytosis?

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  • Contact, recognition and internalisation facilitated by opsins
  • Cytoskeletal changes occur enabling the neutrophil to internalise the pathogen
  • Forms a phagosome which can fuse with the lysosome for digestion
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What are the two mechanisms by which neutrophils kill cells

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Oxygen dependent:

  • Superoxide radicals and hydrogen peroxide
  • H2O2‐ myeloperoxide‐halide system produces HOCl radicals

Oxygen independent:

  • Lysozyme and hydrolases
  • BPI
  • Cationic proteins (defensins)
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What are the potential local complications of acute inflammation?

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Swelling, compression, loss of fluid, pain and loss of function

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What are the potential systemic complications of acute inflammation?

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Fever, acute phase response, leucocytosis, shock

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What are the causes of fever?

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Endogenous pyrogens‐ IL‐1, TNF alpha

Prostaglandins

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What are the causes of leucocytosis?

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IL‐1 and TNF‐alpha accelerate release of WBC from bone marrow

T‐lymphocytes produce colony stimulating factors

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What is the difference between leucocytosis in bacterial and viral infections?

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Viral‐ elevated lymphocytes

Bacterial‐ elevated polymorphs

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What are the symptoms of the acute phase response?

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Decreased appetite, disrupted sleep pattern and raised pulse rate

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Which proteins change in plasma concentration during the acute phase response?

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  • C‐reactive protein
  • Alpha‐1 anti‐trypsin
  • Fibrinogen
  • Serum A amyloid protein
  • Haptoglobin
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Define shock
Clinical syndrome of circulatory failure
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Which inflammatory mediators cause increased vascular permeability?
Histmaines, leukotrienes
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Which inflammatory mediators cause vasodilation?
Histamines, prostaglandins
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Which inflammatory mediators cause neutrophil chemotaxis?
C5a, LTB4
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Which inflammatory mediators cause phagocytosis?
C3b
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How does exudation of fluid combat injury?
- Delivers plasma proteins such as immunoglobulins, fibrinogen and inflammatory mediators - Dilute toxins - Increases lymphatic drainage
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How does infiltration of cells combat injury?
Removes pathogenic organisms and necrotic debris
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How does vasodilation combat injury?
Increases delivery to tissue and increases temperature
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How does an increase in temperature help to combat cell injury?
Most bacteria cannot survive at high temperatures
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How does pain and loss of function combat cell injury?
Enforces rest and prevents further damage to tissue
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What are the possible outcomes of acute inflammation?
- Complete resolution - Continuous acute inflammation with chronic inflammation‐ abscess - Chronic inflammation with fibrous tissue repair and possible regeneration - Death
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What morphological changes occur in resolution of acute inflammation?
- Neutrophils stop migrating - Vessel calibre returns to normal - Vessel permeability returns to normal
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Describe the process of resolution
- Exudate drains to lymphocytes - Fibrin is broken down by plasmin and other proteases - Neutrophils die and are carried away or phagocytosed - Damaged tissue may regenerate
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List the mechanisms of resolution
Inactivation of inflammatory mediators by degredation Binding of inhibitors to inflammatory mediators e.g. anti‐protease Unstable inflammatory mediators Inflammatory mediators are diluted in exudate Specific inhibitors of acute inflammation changes e.g. endothelin, lipoxins
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Give two consequences of acute inflammation in serous cavities
Ascites, pleural or pericardial effusion
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What is bacterial menigtis?
Acute inflammation of the meninges
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What are the two consequences of bacterial meningitis?
Vascular thrombosis, reduced cerebral perfusion
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How does lobar pneumonia present?
Worsening fever, postration, hypoxaemia, dry cough and breathlessness
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What is the cause of hypoxaemia in lobar pneumonia?
Exudate fills the alveoli opposed to oxygen
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What colour does the exudate in skin blisters appear and why?
Clear as there is few inflammatory cells unless bacterial infection occurs
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List the potential causes of skin blisters
Heat, sunlight, chemicals
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What is an abscess?
Build up of inflammatory exudate in solid tissues that forces the tissue apart
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What type of necrosis is commonly seen in abcesses?
Liquifactive
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What are the two concequences of on absess?
High pressure causing pain Tissue damage and squashing of adjacent structures
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Give an example of a disorder of acute inflammation causing a defect in neutrophil function
Chronic granulomatous disease
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What is opsin Fc a component of?
Present in all antibodies, it is the fixed non‐specific component of antibody structure
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Where are proteases produced?
Liver
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What is the purpose of fibrin in acute inflammation?
Localises the inflammation
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Why is lymphatic drainage of exudate so important for the body’s immune response?
Lymph nodes contain large quantities of T and B lymphocytes which can amount an adaptive immune response to pathogens carried to the lymph nodes in fluid exudate from inflamed tissues
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What is serositis?
Inflammation of a serous membrane

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