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Chronic Inflammation Flashcards

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What is chronic inflammation

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Response to injury with associated fibrosis

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True or false: chronic inflammation causes tong term consequences

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True - resolution is not complete as they are left with scarring

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How does chronic inflammation arise?

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  1. If acute inflammation is too severe to be resolved in a few days
  2. De novo
  3. Repeated attacks of acute inflammation
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How may chronic inflammation arise de novo

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  • autoimmune conditions

- chronic infections

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What 6 types of cells can be seen in chronic inflammation

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  • macrophages
  • lymphocytes
  • plasma cells
  • eosinophils
  • fibroblasts
  • giant cells
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In which type of inflammation are macrophages seen mostly in

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Chronic

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Why does chronic inflammation look variable

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Due to the different types of cells present in different scenarios

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What are the 3 functions of macrophages

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  • phagocytosis
  • Antigen presenting to immune system
  • synthesis or cytokines (TNF and interleukin) which control other cells and also complement components, blood clotting factors and proteases
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Which type of pathogen do macrophages usually digest

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Bacteria

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What are macrophages derived from

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Monocytes

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What histological appearance do lymphocytes have

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Large nucleus with little cytoplasms

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What are the functions of lymphocytes

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Immunological:

  • activate B lymphocytes to differentiate and produce antibodies
  • activate T lymphocytes which are involved in cytotoxic functions
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What is the histological appearance of plasma cells

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  • can see golgi (needed for antibody production)
  • open nucleus with chromatin in the peripheries
  • can see the cytoplasm
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What is the histological appearance of eosinophils

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  • pink vacuoles

- bi-lobed nucleus

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What do plasma cells do

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Differentiated from B lymphocytes into antibody producing cells

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What is the function of eosinophils

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Kill parasites

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What is the function of fibroblasts

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Make collagen

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What are the 3 types of giant cells

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  • langerhans
  • foreign body type
  • touton
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What are giant cells

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Multinucleate cells made by the fusion of macrophages

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Why do giant cells form

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Due to frustrated phagocytosis - where macrophages cant phagocytose particles so fuse together

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In which infection are langerhan cells most commonly seen in

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TB

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What type of necrosis is touton cells seen in

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Fat necrosis

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What is the histological appearance of langerhan cells

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  • horse shoe peripheral nucleus
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What is the histological appearance of foreign body type cells

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Multiple aggregates of nuclei and foreign bodies

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True or false: chronic is specific
False
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What type of cell is seen in chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis
Plasma cells
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What type of cells are most commonly seen in chronic inflammation in chronic gastritis
Lymphocytes
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What are the 4 affects of chronic inflammation
1. Fibrosis 2. Impaired function 3. Atrophy 4. Stimulation of immune response
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What affect of chronic inflammation is seen in chronic cholecystitis
- Fibrosis causing a yellow fibrotic wall of the gall bladder which is usually translucence - the gall stones produced cause repeated obstruction of the bile duct leading to chronic inflammation which causes fibrosis
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What is experienced in chronic cholecystitis
Pain
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What is an idiopathic disease
A disease where the cause is not known
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What type of inflammation is present in imflammatory bowel disease
Both acute and chronic inflammation
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What is the cause of inflammatory bowel disease
Not know - it is idiopathic
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What do patients with inflammatory bowel disease present with
Diarrhoea, rectal bleeding (as inflammation damages mucosa)
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What are 2 examples of diseases which are inflammatory bowel diseases
- ulcerative colitis | - Crohn's disease
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What is the difference between ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease
- Ulcerative colitis is superficial (the inflammation affects the mucosa only) - Crohns is transmural (affects mucosa and deeper layers of the gut)
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What is seen in Crohn's disease
- strictures (fibrous borrowing) | - fistulae (abnormal connection between 2 mucosa lined organs)
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What are common causes of cirrhosis
- alcohol - hepatitis B and C - drugs - fatty liver disease
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What happens to the liver function in cirrhosis
There is decreased liver function caused by chronic inflammation which is caused by various sources The inflammation causes disorganisation of architecture
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What is thyrotoxicosis
Hyperthyroidism (too much thyroid hormones produced)
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What is Graves' Disease
Where chronic inflammation causes hyperthyroidism as the antibodies produced by the immune system cause the production of more hormones
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What is granulomatous inflammation
Chronic inflammation with granulomas
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What is a granuloma
Group of macrophages and lymphocytes which stick together
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When do granulomas arise
- hypersensitivity reactions | - persistent low levels of antigenic stimulation
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What are the 3 main causes of granulomatous inflammation
- foreign material - infection - unknown causes
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Give an example of an infection that causes granulomatous inflammation
TB
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What organism causes TB
Mycobacteria which are difficult and slow to culture
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What does TB cause
It causes disease by Persistence and induction of cell mediated response. Therefore there is chronic inflammation
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What is seen in Tuberculous Granuloma
An area of caseous necrosis in the middle of the granuloma with langerhan cells nearby
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What vaccine protects against TB
BCG
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What happens during abnormal reactions to the BCG vaccine
BCG granulomas
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Give 3 examples of granulomatous diseases of unknown cause
- sarcoidosis - Crohn's disease - wegener's granulomatosis
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What organs does Wegener's granulomatosis affect
Kidneys
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What are the granulomas like in sarcoidosis
- variable - non-caseating granulomas with giant cells - involved in lymph nodes and lungs
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What are the consequences of chronic inflammation
- fibrosis - impaired function and atrophy - stimulation of immune response
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True or false: chronic inflammation is very heterogeneous
True - it is always variable
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