MEDRADSC 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Peripheral Artery Disease, Atheroma, Arteriosclerosis

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Medical Radiation Sciences
• Course: MEDRADSC 1B03
• Professor: Charbonneau

Document Summary

Define and briefly describe the following selected pathologies: Pathophysiology: a term for all types of arterial changes, best applied to degenerative changes in arteries and arterioles in people over. 50 and with diabetes: elasticity is lost and walls become thick and hard, lumen narrows and may become obstructed, leads to diffuse ischemia and necrosis. Gender (women have more hdl until menopause when estrogen levels decrease) Diagnostic tests: checking hdl and ldl levels, crp indicates inflammation - low crp means lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Treatment: losing weight, healthier diet, lowering serum cholesterol and ldl levels, control diabetes. Pathophysiology: chest pain when there is a deficit of oxygen to the heart muscle, can occur when heart is working harder than it needs to be and is in demand for oxygen (exercising, classic/exertional angina. Variant angina in which vasospasm occurs at rest: unstable angina. Prolonged pain at rest and of recent onset. Could be caused by breakage of atheroma.