Crohn’s Disease vs Ulcerative Colitis : IBD
Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD refers to a group of auto-immune disorders in which the intestines become inflamed. Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease are chronic […]
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Pathology
Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease
Definition: Rheumatic fever (RF) is an acute, immunologically mediated, multisystem inflammatory disease involving heart, joints, CNS, skin and other tissues that occurs a few weeks […]
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Myocardial Infarction Made Easy
The 4 Ischemic Heart Diseases caused due to imbalance between supply and demand of the heart for oxygenated blood are: Acute Myocardial Infarction (MI) Angina […]
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Pathogenesis of Glomerular Injury
Primary Immunopathogenic mechanism: Initiator of the disease process by: Antibody mediated injury: immune complex deposition or cytotoxic antibodies T-cell mediated immune injury: non-immune complex deposition […]
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Morphology of Alcoholic Liver Disease
Alcoholic Liver Disease (ALD) is a term used to describe the spectrum of liver injury associated with acute andchronic alcoholism. The 3 stages of Alcoholic […]
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Pathogenesis of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a toxin mediated, rare, life threatening, systemic illness caused due to infection of Staphylococcus aureus (staphylococcal toxic shock) and Streptococcus […]
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Complications of Blood transfusion and their management
A. Transfusion Reactions: May be allergic or hemolytic 1. Hemolytic reactions: can be acute or delayed Acute Hemolytic reactions: It is usely due to ABO […]
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Skin Tumors: Cause, Features and Morphology
Almost everyone develop skin tumors during his/her lifetime, but since most of them are benign they may not need treatment but are removed for cosmetic […]
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Pathogenesis of Septic Shock
Shock (Cardiovascular collapse) It is the final common pathway for a number of potentially lethal clinical events, including severe hemorrhage, extensive trauma or burns, large […]
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