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Critical relationship

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Q = ChangeinP/R

Q = blood flow 
P = pressure 
R = resistance
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What is Congestion?

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Relative excess of blood in vessels of tissue or organ:

  • passive process
  • Not like acute inflammation: active hyperaemia
  • Acute or chronic
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Clinical pathology examples

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Local acute congestion
- Deep vein thrombosis

Local chronic congestion
- Hepatic cirrhosis

Generalised acute congestion
- Congestive cardiac failure

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What is Deep vein thrombosis of the leg, and features?

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  • Vein blocked causing localised acute congestion
  • Blood backs up in veins, venules, capillaries
  • Decreased outflow of blood
  • Local, acute congestion
  • Decreased pressure gradient
  • No O2 therefore ischaemia and infarction
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What is Hepatic cirrhosis?

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  • Results from serious liver damage e.g. HBV, alcohol
  • Regenerating liver forms nodules of hepatocytes with intervening fibrosis
  • Loss of normal architecture: altered hepatic blood flow
  • Portal blood flow blocked
  • Local chronic congestion: haemorrhage risk
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What are consequences of portal-systemic shunts?

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  • Caput medusae

- Oesophageal varices

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Features of congestive cardiac failure

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Heart unable to clear blood, right & left ventricles
- ineffective pump e.g. ischaemia, valve disease

Fluid (overload) in veins (Treatment: diuretics)

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Pathophysiology of congestive cardiac failure

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Decreased cardiac output (CO)

Decreased renal glomerular filtration rate (GFR)

  • Activation of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system
  • Increased Na and H2O retention

Increased amount of fluid in body

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What are effects of congestive cardiac failure?

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  • Heart cannot clear blood from ventricles
  • Back pressure, blood dammed in veins
  • Lungs -pulmonary oedema
  • Liver: central venous congestion:
    Right heart failure
    Increased JVP, hepatomegaly, peripheral oedema
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Pericentral hepatocytes and Periportal hepatocytes in hepatic central venous congestion

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Pericentral hepatocytes (red) - Stasis of poorly oxygenated blood

Periportal hepatocytes (pale) - Relatively better oxygenated due to proximity of hepatic arterioles

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What happens in normal microcirculation?

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  • Constant movement of fluid through capillary beds; process of dynamic equilibrium
  • Driven by hydrostatic pressure from heart
  • Balanced by osmotic pressures and endothelial permeability
  • Filtration from capillary beds to interstitium
  • Capillaries-interstitium-capillaries and lymphatics
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Which three components affect net flux and filtration?

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  • Hydrostatic pressure
  • Oncotic pressure
  • Permeability characteristics and area of endothelium
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What is Starling’s hypothesis?

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Net filtration (Jv)= [(force favouring filtration/flow of fluid out of vessel) - endothelial permeability to proteins x (forces opposing filtration/keeping fluid in vessel)] x endothelial permeability to H2O x area of capillary bed

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What is normal oedema?

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Accumulation of abnormal amounts of fluid in the extravascular compartment

  • Intercellular tissue compartment (extracellular fluid)
  • Body cavities
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What is peripheral oedema?

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Increased interstitial fluid in tissues

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What are oedema effusions?

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Fluid collections in body cavities

  • Pleural, pericardial, joint effusions
  • Abdominal cavity: ascites
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What is Oedema: exudate?

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  • Part of inflammatory process due to increased vascular permeability
  • Tumour, inflammation, allergy
  • Higher protein/albumin content (cells)
  • H2O & electrolytes
  • High specific gravity
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Pathophysiology of pulmonary oedema in left ventricular failure

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Hydrostatic pressure - transudate

  • Increased left atrial pressure > passive retrograde flow to pulmonary veins, capillaries and arteries
  • Increased pulmonary vascular pressure
  • Increased pulmonary blood volume
  • Increased Pc > Increased filtration and pulmonary oedema
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Pathophysiology of pulmonary oedema in lungs

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  • Perivascular and interstitial transudate
  • Progressive oedematous widening of alveolar septa
  • Accumulation of oedema fluid in alveolar spaces
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Pathophysiology of peripheral oedema

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Right heart failure – cannot empty RV in systole
Blood retained in systemic veins > Increased pressure in capillaries > increased filtration > peripheral oedema
also, secondary portal venous congestion via liver

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Pathophysiology of peripheral oedema: Congestive cardiac failure

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  • Right and left ventricles both fail
  • Pulmonary oedema and peripheral oedema at the same time
  • All about hydrostatic pressure (P)
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Pathophysiology of lymphatic blockage

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Lymphatic obstruction - hydrostatic pressure upset

  • Lymphatic drainage is required for normal flow
  • If lymphatic system is blocked > lymphoedema
    e. g. breast cancer may require radiotherapy to axilla > fibrosis > decreased outflow > oedema of upper limb
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Pathophysiology of low protein oedema

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Oncotic pressure - transudate

  • Oncotic pressurec requires normal protein levels
  • Hypoalbuminaemia > decreased oncotic pressurec > increases filtration
    e. g nephrotic syndrome
    e. g. hepatic cirrhosis
    e. g. malnutrition
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Pathophysiology of permeability oedema

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Endothelial permeability - exudate

  • Damage to endothelial lining > Increases “pores” in membrane > osmotic reflection coefficient of endothelium decreases towards zero
  • Proteins and larger molecules can leak out (not just H2O)
    e. g. acute inflammation such as pneumonia
    e. g. burns