Rheumatic fever
Occurs few weeks after Phryngitis caused by Group A beta hemolytic streptococcus
2 problemes:
What are the morphological consequences of the problems mentioned before in the Acute RF?
Heart
Heart:
(Aschoff bodies are granulomatous reactions, consisting of a central zone of degenerating, hypereosinophilic extracellular matrix infiltrated by lymphocytes, plasma cells and Anitshschkow cells (/Gaint cells))
What are the morphological consequences of the problems mentioned before in the Acute RF?
in the other organs
Joints:
Skin:
CNS:
What are the morphological consequences of the chroinc RF?
Describe the clinical picture of a patient with acute/chronic RF
Acute??:
Chronic:
Describe the diagnosis of RF
Serologic evidence of a previous streptococcal infection, in conjunction with Jones criteria.
The rule is that we have to have 2 or more criteria or 1 Jones criteria (major manifestation) + 2 minor manifestation.
What is Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis?
(no microorganisms)**
Describe the morphology of non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis
What is the pathogenesis (causes) of non-bacterial endocarditis
Typically hypercoagulable states:
When will non-bacterial endocarditis become clinically sagnificant?
Describe what is Limban-sacks endocarditis
Sterile vegetations (patients with SLE).
immune complex deposition and thus have associated inflammation
Describe the morphology of Limban-sacks endocarditis
Describe infective endocarditis
Vegetation = bacteria, necrotic tissue, cell debris, fibrin, inflammatory cells and platelets.
What are the possible causative agents of infective endocarditis?
Caused by extracellular bacteria (can also be caused by fungi, rickettsiae and chlamydia)
Based on the microbial virulence and whether an underlying cardiac disease is present, we classify IE into….
Describe the morphology of infective endocarditis
The subacute form is milder.
What are the predesposing factors of IE
What are the causative agents and the source of the microorganisms of Infective endocarditis?
Causative agents (s.viridans and s.aureus)
Source:
What are the possible complications of IE?
What are the clinical features of IE?
Subacute: fatigue, weight loss, flulike syndrome, sometime fever
Acute: fever, chills, weakness, lassitude.
Due to complications:
What is carcinoid heart disease?
Cardiac manifestation of a systemic syndrome that includes flushing, diarrhea, dermatitis and bronchoconstriction and is caused by bioactive compounds released by carcinoid tumors.
Morphology
What is the pathogenesis of carcinoid heart disease?
Related to APUD cancers which produce vasoactive amines:
When the tumor makes liver metastasis, a huge amount of substances reach the right side of the heart before it reaches the lung. (valvular thickening)
(Can occur on the left side a patent foramen ovale or with pulmonary carcinoids)
What is Myxomatous mitral valve?
Valves are “floppy” and prolapse (protrude back into the atrium during systole)
What is the morphology of myxomatous mitral valve?
enlarged leaflets (thick and rubbery)
elongated chordae tendinae
(thin and sometimes rupture)
Histologically: thining of the fibrosa layer (accompined by desposition of myxomatous material)