Category:Pathophysiology 1
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Pages in category ‘Pathophysiology 1’
The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total.
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- 2. Cardiovascular adaptation in health and disease
- 3. Distribution of cardiac output and its disorders in the young and the elderly
- 4. Causes and forms of heart failure
- 5. Forward failure symptoms (left- and right-sided) in heart failure
- 6. Backward failure symptoms (left- and right-sided) in heart failure
- 7. High output cardiac failure
- 8. Cardiomyopathies
- 9. Acute heart failure
- 10. Pathophysiology of the lymphatic circulation
- 11. Vasovagal syncope
- 12. Definition and classification of circulatory shock. Pathophysiology of development, phases and characteristics of microcirculation
- 13. Hypovolemic shock: Causes and hemodynamics
- 14. Cardiogenic shock: Causes and hemodynamics
- 15. Distributive shock: Causes and hemodynamics
- 16. Organ manifestations of shock
- 17. Tissue hypoxia, ischemia, reperfusion and tissue metabolism
- 18. Pathogenesis of coronary insufficiency. Risk factors
- 19. Pathomechanism and consequences of acute myocardial infarction
- 20. Mechanisms and consequences of chronic ischemic heart disease
- 21. Regulation of cerebral circulation in health and disease
- 22. Cerebral hypoxia, ischaemia, stroke
- 23. Characteristics and disorders of splanchnic blood flow
- 24. Pulmonary circulation, pulmonary hypertension
- 25. General pathophysiology and classification of systemic hypertension – age and blood pressure
- 26. Role of the kidneys in the development of hypertension. Effects of hypertension on the kidneys
- 27. Hypertension and the adrenal gland
- 28. Primary hypertension. Characteristics and etiological factors
- 29. Consequences of hypertension
- 30. Orthostatic hypotension in the young and the elderly
- 31. Active heterotopic abnormalities (premature beats)
- 32. Passive heterotopy. Causes, forms and consequences
- 33. Supraventricular and a-v junctional blocks
- 34. Forms and importance of intraventricular conduction abnormalities
- 35. Pre-excitation syndromes
- 36. Forms and consequences of paroxysmal tachycardia
- 37. Signs of chronic or acute overload in the ECG (hypertrophy, strain)
- 38. Primary and secondary repolarization abnormalities in the ECG
- 39. ECG in acute myocardial infarction
- 40. Atrial or ventricular flutter, atrial or ventricular fibrillation
- 41. Principles and evaluation of respiratory function tests. Characteristics and parameters of abnormal breathing mechanics
- 42. Disorders of the control of breathing. Age-dependent changes. Sleep-apnea syndrome
- 43. The work of breathing. Abnormalities of elastic resistance, restrictive disorders
- 44. Alveolar hypoventilation. Causes and consequences.
- 45. Acute and chronic alveolar hyperventilation
- 46. Ventilation-perfusion mismatch (VQ). Causes and consequences
- 47. Disorders of alveolo-capillary diffusion. Hepatopulmonary syndrome
- 48. Disorders of oxygen transport (abnormal hemoglobin, CO-poisoning, methemoglobinemia)
- 49. Forms and mechanisms of hypoxia. Ways of compensation – cyanosis
- 50. Causes and consequences of increased airway resistance – causes and consequences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – emphysema
- 51. Partial or complete respiratory failure
- 52. Dyspnoea
- 53. Forms, general pathophysiology and consequences of anaemia
- 54. Aplastic anemia and anemias of complex etiology in disease states
- 55. Deficiency anaemias
- 56. Haemolytic anaemias
- 57. Polycythemias, polyglobulias
- 58. Bleeding abnormalities due to platelet or vascular factors
- 59. Congenital and acquired coagulopathies
- 60. Thrombosis. Causes and consequences
- 61. Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
- 62. Granulocytes in inflammatory processes
- 63. Pathophysiology of glomerular filtration
- 64. Disorders of tubular functions
- 65. Proteinuria
- 66. Hyposthenuria, asthenuria, osmotic diuresis
- 67. Oliguria, polyuria. Renal functions in the elderly
- 68. Non-excretory kidney functions and their abnormalities
- 69. Chronic renal failure. Causes, characteristics and progression
- 70. Metabolic disorders and organ dysfunctions in uraemia
- 71. Uremic coma
- 72. Acute renal failure. Occurrence, general features – extrarenal uremia. Prerenal azotemia. Postrenal failure
- 73. Renal circulation. Cardiorenal syndrome
- 74. Acute tubular nephropathy
- 75. Acute diffuse glomerulonephritis
- 76. Compensation of pH-abnormalities (plasma and intracellular puffers, respiration, kidney) and their disturbances
- 77. Metabolic acidosis. Causes, compensation, consequences
- 78. Metabolic alkalosis. Causes, compensation, consequences
- 79. Respiratory acidosis and alkalosis. Causes, compensation, consequences
- 80. Disorders of potassium balance. Hypo- and hyperkalaemia
- 81. States of decreased extracellular volume, and their consequences
- 82. States of elevated extracellular volume. Causes, mechanisms and consequences
- 83. Hyperosmolarity, hypertonicity. Forms, causes, consequences
- 84. Hypotonicity. Pathogenesis and consequences
- 85. Tissue injury, inflammation, lymphatic circulation
- 87. Definitions and causes of sepsis and trauma