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Heart and Blood Vessel Disease
____________________ : thickening , calcification and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls .

____________________ : deposition of fatty plaques ( atheroma ) . This is a form of arterisclerosis .

____________________ sclerosis : tunica media of medium sized arteries calcified .





Aneurysm : localized ____________________ of an artery :

1 . Berry in the circle of Willis , subarchnoid hemmorhage .

2 . Dissecing : ____________________ tearing away of the aorta

3 . Abdominal aorta ; can cause low back pain due to ____________________ of the anterior vertebral body .



Buerger's : AKA thromoangitis obliterns . Young male who ____________________ heavily ; intermittent claudication , extremity tissue hypoxia







Raynaud's : ____________________ of the arteries . May be primary or secondary to other collagen diseases such as Lupus . Found in the hands and feet producing a triphasic color change , from pallor to cyanosis to rubor . Brought on by cold or emotion . Can lead to dry ____________________ .



Temporal arteritis : AKA ____________________ cell arteritis . Affects the temporal arteries . Associated with long standinghypertension .



Takayasu arteritis : AKA pulseless disease ; granulomatous inflammation of the aortic arch

Congenital :

Tetralogy of Fallot ? likely to cause cyanosis

Dextro rotation of the aorta

Right ventricular hypertrophy

Interventricular septal defect

Pulmonic atenosis

Coarctation of the aorta : narrowing of the lumen produces ____________________ blood pressure in the upper extremities and ____________________ blood pressure in the lower extremities .