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Unit 1: HEMODYNAMIC DISORDERS (Hyperemia, stasis, hemorrhage, edema)

Hyperemia is blood volume increase within the organ


There are arterial & venous Hyperemia, General & local, Acute & chronic
Classification of local arterial hyperemia: a) inflammatory;
b) postischemic; c) vocational (syn. Decompression); d) angionevrotic; e) collateral;
g) with arteriovenous fistula. Chronic venous hyperemia as venous congestion is one of the most
important part in the clinical picture. It occurs systematically in nutmeg liver, the kidney & the
spleen or the lungs. It occurs locally in nutmeg liver. Pathogenesis: the right- sided heart failure (or
congestive right heart failure) leads to chronic passive congestion with nutmeg liver, cyanotic
induration of the kidneys, cyanotic induration of the spleen (syn. congestive splenomegaly).
Congestion of capillary beds is closely related to the development of edema, so congestion & edema
are common to occur together.

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