Learning Objectives:Chapter 7, Hemodynamic Disorders

At the completion of this unit, the student will be able to ...

  1. Explain active hyperemia and passive congestion and give clinically important examples of each process.

  2. Describe the fate of thrombi, with special emphasis to clinical effects, organization, recanalization, and embolisation.

  3. List several conditions that predispose to thrombosis of veins of lower extremities.

  4. Describe the various forms of embolism and their clinical symptoms.

  5. Contrast and compare pale infarcts, red infarcts, and septic infarcts.

  6. Explain the pathogenesis of renal edema, lymphatic edema, inflammatory edema and oncotic edema (see Figure 7-12, page 173).

  7. Explain the pathogenesis of endotoxic shock, hypovolemic shock and cardiogenic shock.

  8. Define the listed Keywords.

  9. Identify key features and be able to recognize, from projected slides, each of the diseases/processes depicted in the Supplemental Image Database.