Pathology Archive

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 inflammatory bowel disease which have relapsing and limiting course. The diseases have many similarities and it is important to ...Read More

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 after an episode of group A β-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngitis. Acute rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the cardiac manifestation of RF ...Read More

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 mechanism Secondary immunopathogenic mechanism: Role of mediators of the disease: A) Cells: Neutrophils and monocytes Macrophages, T lymphocytes and ...Read More

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 Liver Disease are: Hepatic steatosis (fatty change) Alcoholic hepatitis Alcoholic cirrhosis Interrelationships among stages of Alcoholic Liver Disease: Gross ...Read More

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 incompatibility, there is intravascular hemolysis As low as 10 ml of blood can produce hemolytic reactions Clinically, patients presents ...Read More

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 purposes. Since most of the skin neoplasms are visible, they are easily detectable. Classification: a. Benign Epithelial Tumors: Seborrheic ...Read More