Vascular diseases

Articles

• renal TMA
  3 February 2006

  Renal thrombotic microangiopathy

• ileocecal region necrosis
  31 August 2007

  See also
  ileocecal region
  digestive ischemic necrosis

• portal vein obstruction
  31 May 2003

  Synopsis
  bile duct abnormalities dilation and narrowing of intra- and/or extrahepatic bile ducts cholestasis
  Etiology (Examples)
  portal vein thrombosis sickle cell anemia
  See also
  cavernous transformation of the portal vein

• sinusoidal dilatation
  31 May 2003

  sinusoidal congestion

• sickle cell anemia
  31 May 2003

  Sickle cell anemia lesions in liver, sickle cell hemoglobinopathy, HbS, Sickle cell disease, sickle cell trait
  Definition: Sickle cell anemia is caused by substitution of normal hemoglobin (HbA) by hemoglobin S (HbS). When an individual is homozygous for the mutant gene, all the hemoglobin is of the abnormal, HbS, type, and even with normal saturation of oxygen, the disorder is fully expressed (i.e., sickling deformity of all red cells and hemolytic anemia).
  Sickle cells, also known as (...)

• diffuse ischemia
  31 May 2003
• antiphospholipid syndrome
  25 October 2004

  Definition: The antiphospholipid syndrome is characterized by clinical evidence of arterial or venous thrombosis, thrombocytopaenia, recurrent fetal loss and repeated positivity of antiphospholipid autoantibodies.
  The designation ’antiphospholipid syndrome’ was proposed for the association of arterial and venous thrombosis, recurrent fetal loss, and immune thrombocytopenia with a spectrum of autoantibodies directed against cellular phospholipid components.
  Anticardiolipin antibodies may (...)

• Ischemia
  17 June 2003

  Adj. ischemic, ischemic injury