Test 1: 10-14 Hemodynamics I Flashcards
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- Hemostasis is what kind of process? Give 2 roles
Highly regulated process, that maintains the fluidity of the blood and limits loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel
- What two things can happen with failure hemostasis mechanisms?
Excessive bleeding or vessel occulusion by excessive blood clot formation (thrombosis)
- What is seen in normal fluid hoemostasis?
Balance between exit of fluid at arterial end and the return of return of fluid at the venous end; with lymphatic drainage removing excess fluid
- What is an edema? When does this happen? What is a transudate?
a. Edema: increased fluid in the interstitial/extracellular tissue spaces <br></br>
<br></br>b. When there is greater movement of fluid out than is returned by venous absorption or lymphatic drainage
<br></br>c. The protein-poor fluid of edema
- Define the following: hydrothorax, hydropericardium, and Ascites/Hydroperitoneum
<br></br>Hydrothorax: fluid in pleural space
Hydropericardium: fluid in space between the heart and pericardium
<br></br>Ascites/Hydroperitoneum: fluid in peritoneal space
- Give the names of the edema that are caused each of the following sets:<br></br>
<br></br>a. CHF, Constrictive pericarditis, ascites from liver cirrhosis, venous obstruction or compression
<br></br>b. nephrotic syndrome, end stage liver disease, malnutrition, protein losing gastroenteropathy
<br></br>c. Inflammation, neoplastic, surgery, postirradiation
<br></br>d. renin angiotensin aldosterone (sodium reabsorption), renal insufficiency
<br></br>e. Acute and chronic, angiogenesis
a. Elevated hydrostatic pressure <br></br>
b. Decreased plasma oncotic pressure (low protein)<br></br>
c. Lymphatic obstruction<br></br>
d. Sodium retention <br></br>
e. Inflammation <br></br>
- Draw a chart showing the relationship of edema to of the following:<br></br>
a. heart failure<br></br>
b. malnutrition, decreased hepatic synthesis, nephrotic syndrome <br></br>
c. Renal failure
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Draw chart
- Edema is increased hydrostatic pressure which is an indication of? What does it produce?
Congestive heart edema <br></br>
Dependent edema<br></br>
- What is pitting edema and what is it due to?
Finger-shaped depression remains after pressing skin, due to transient fluid displacement <br></br>
- What is responsible for maintaining colloid osmotic pressure?
Albumin <br></br>
- Give two examples of lost/reduced synthesis of albumin
Decreased synthesis: Liver failure or cirrhosis <br></br>
Loss of protein: nephrotic syndrome <br></br>
- What does ascites result from?
Advanced liver cirrhosis
- What is anasarca? Cause? Earliest sign?
a. Severe generalized edema <br></br>
b. Lack of oncotic pressure<br></br>
c. Periorbital edema <br></br>
- Increased salt in circulation causes?
<br></br>i. Shift of fluid to intravascular space
<br></br>ii. Increased hydrostatic pressure to expansion of fluid volume
<br></br>iii. Increased plasma water content results in decreased oncotic pressure resulting from dilution of albumin
- Salt and water retention is secondary after?
Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone system activation
- Edema inflammation is localized unless?
Result of systemic inflammatory response (e.g. allergic reaction)
- Lymphatic obstruction/impaired drainage results in? Is this localized or systemic?
Lymphedema, usually localized
- Elephantitis (a lymphedema) is due to?
Wuchereria bancrofti (roundworms block lymph vessels)
- What does the microscopic appearance of edema depend on?
Amount of protein in exudate
- When looking at a microscopic appearance of edema what is usually seen? Color? Most commonly seen in what parts of the body?
a. Just clearing and separation of ECM parts<br></br>
b. Pink stain if enough protein <br></br>
c. Subcutaneous tissues, lungs, and brain<br></br>
- How does the histologic appearance of subcutaneous edema appear?
Subtle, with increased spaces between cells
- How may edema interfere with healing? Where does the severe edema compromise? It also increases the risk of?
a. Fluid must be removed for healing<br></br>
b. Severe edema compromises venous return, <br></br>
c. infection and ulceration
- What is the most common cause of edema?
Heart problems
- Left ventricular failure causes back up to?
Atrium, pulmonary veins, and lungs
ii. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
iii. Inhalation of toxic agents
iv. Pulmonary infections
v. Therapeutic radiation of the lungs
vi. Head injury
vii. Renal failure
viii. Hypersensitivity
ii. Cough
iii. Pulse
iv. Breath sounds
v. Engorged neck vessels
ii. Orthopnea
iii. Cyanotic (central)
iv. Air hunger
v. Tachypnea
ii. Frothy
iii. Blood tinged
b. Breath sounds: crackles, fine -> course
c. Engorged neck veins
i. Poorly defined pulmonary vessels
ii. Visible lung fissures
iii. Septal lines
iv. Thick bronchial walls
b. Alveolar pulmonary edema
i. Bilateral symmetric perihilar lung consolidation
c. Enlarged heart and pleural effusion
b. Parenchymal edema may shift brain due to high pressure and may push the brainstem down into the foramen magnum (tonsillar herniation)
c. One part of the brain herniates into adjacent compartments tearing brain tissue
i. Abscess
ii. Neoplasm
iii. Trauma
b. Generalized
i. Encephalitis
ii. Hypersensitive crisis
iii. Obstruction of venous outflow
iv. Trauma
b. Skeletal muscle during exercise, inflammation, and blushing
Give an example for systemic and local congestion Color and why?
Congestion and edema occur separate or together?
b. Systemic: congestive heart failure (CHF), local: local venous obstruction
c. Blue-red color due to accumulation of deoxygenated hemoglobin (cyanosis)
d. Congestion and edema usually occur together
i. Alveolar capillaries engorged with blood
ii. Alveolar septal edema
iii. Focal intraalveolar hemorrhage
b. Chronic pulmonary congestion
i. Thickened and fibrotic septa
ii. Heart failure cells aka hemosiderin-laden macrophages in alveolar spaces
Chronic hepatic congestion
b. Hepatic fibrosis
| b. Internal or external
ii. atherosclerosis
iii. aneurysm
iv. neoplasia/inflammation
v. capillary bleeding
vi. hemorrhagic diathesis
ii. Platelet dysfunction (petechiae, purpura)
iii. Coagulation defect (hematoma, bleeding)
b. DDX – angiomas: Do not blanch (whiten) with pressure DDX – vasculitis: not palpable
ii. Sites where bleeding occurs has significant prognostic value
iii. Chronic or repeated bleeding leads to iron deficiency
iv. Internal blood loss may allow resuse of iron
i. Initial injury causes brief vasoconstriction
ii. Endothelial damage exposes subendothelium, causing endothelial death, causing platelets activated/adhere
iii. Tissue factor is released activates coagulation cascade forming fibrin
iv. Platelet activation furthers coagulation
v. Fibrin and platelets form a clot thereby plugging to prevent blood loss
a. Both anticoagulant and procoagulant functions
b. Factors: Infectious Agents
Hemodynamic forces
Cytokines
Plasma mediators
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b. Thrombomodulin coverts thrombin to anticoagulant
c. Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)
| b. Procoagulant state
Derived from? Contain?
ii. Secretion and activation
iii. Aggregation
b. Subendothelial ECM to glycoprotein Ib receptors on platelets (Firm)
c. Release of their granules
What are the contents and their function(s)?
ADP: mediates platelet aggregation which increases platelet aggregation at the site
Platelet factor 4: binds to heparin results in its inactivation Serotonin: induces vasoconstriction
What protease also binds to the platelet surface?
What does platelet activation cause?
b. Thrombin
c. Expression of phospholipid complexes on the surface of platelets which act as surfaces to bind coagulation factors and calcium, thereby promoting coagulation
2. Platelet plug formation
3. Coagulation
1. Vascular spasm: smooth muscle contracts, causing vasoconstriction
2. Platelet plug formation: injury to vessel lining shows collagen fibers; platelets adhere here. Platelets release chemicals that make close
3. Coagulation: fibrin forms mesh that traps RBCs and platelets forming a clot
b. These inactive serine proteases (e.g. prothrombin) are converted to “activated enzymes/proteins” by?
c. Assembly of the complex of coagulation factors, which requires cofactors and Ca, takes place on?
d. Thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin monomer, but also effects?
e. Fibrin monomer cross-linked to fibrin forms?
a. Fibrin clot
b. Limited proteolysis
c. Phospholipid surface
d. “Glue” for platelet plug
a. What is the intrinsic factor?
b. What is the extrinsic factor?
c. Both pathways merge at factors?
d. What do the factors need to be bound to for maximum activity?
e. What element is necessary for coagulation?
f. What is the end result of what is formed in coagulation?
b. Tissue factor
c. Factors IX and X
d. A phospholipid surface
e. Calcium
f. Cross-linked fibrin
| Partial thromboplastic time (PTT): intrinsic is prolonged by?
| ii. Prolonged by heparin
i. Directly inactivates?
ii. Name two
iii. Potentiated by?
b. Protein C
i. Inhibits (cleaves) the cofactors?
ii. Significantly decreases?
iii. Requires?
c. Plasmin
i. Role?
i. Serine proteases
ii. Thrombin and Xa
iii. Heparin
b. Protein C
i. cofactors Va and VIIIa
ii. rate of clot formation
iii. activation
c. Plasmin
i. Breaks down fibrin
What inactivates free plasmin?
tPA is inactivated by?
How do endothelial cells modulate
coagulation/anticoagulation balance? What increases this?
b. α2 antiplasmin
c. PAI (plasminogen activator inhibitor)
d. Releasing PAI, thrombin and various cytokines increase PAI
What is plasminogen activated into? Whose role is?
Name 3 substances that inactivate plasminogen
b. Plasmin which breaks down fibrin
c. Urokinase, tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), streptokinase
ii. Antiplatelet drugs: interfere with platelet activity
iii. Thrombolytic agenst: dissolve existing thrombi
Name two traditional anticoagulants
What is a thrombus?
What is an embolus?
b. Thrombus
c. Embolus
What does heparin not disintegrate?
How is heparin commonly given?
Heparin binds and activates antithrombin III, it performs this by inhibiting what?
b. Clots that have already formed
c. Heparin commonly given intravenously by subcutaneous injection
d. Thrombin, factor IXa, factor Xa
Direct factor Xa inhibitors
Synthetic pentasaccharide inhibitors of factor Xa
Activated Protein C
Tissue Factor Pathway Inhibitor
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| Give two director factor Xa inhibitors
| b. Rivaroxaban and apixaban
| Situations where risk of hemorrhage is greater outweighs benefits
| Patients with warfarin necrosis have low levels of?
| b. Protein C
What does it indirectly measure?
| b. Since thrombin is needed for fibrin to form, it indirectly measures the plasmin and thrombin activity