Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Heart failure
- Congestive heart failure
- Frank-Starling mechanism
- Activate release of norepinephrine
- Activate renin-angiotensin system
- Activate atrial natriuretic peptide
- Compensatory hypertrophy
- Increase risk for ishemia
Anmerkungen:
- COmpensatory hypertrophy is different from physiological hypertrophy as the capillary plexus does not increase.
- Left Heart Failure
- Ventricular dilation
and hypertrophy
- myocyte dilation
- Affects lungs
- Increased
venous pressure
in thepulmonary
vein
- Pulmonary edema
- Extravasation
of RBCs in
the alveolar
space
- hemosiderin-laden
macrophages
- Dyspnea
- Orthopnea
- Paraoxysmal
nocturnal dyspnea
- S3
- mitral
regurgitation
- systolic murmurs
- Right Heart Failure
- Alongside Left heart failure
- Isolated right heart failure
- Cor pulmonale
Anmerkungen:
- Severe pulmonary hypertension
- Affects liver
- Congestive hepatomegaly
- Nutmeg liver with
centrilobular
necrosis
- Fibrotic centrilobule
- Cardiac cirrhosis
- Portal hypertension
- Congestive splenomegaly
- Transfusions
- Anasarca, ascites, pleural transfusion