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Fibrinoid necrosis

About: Fibrinoid necrosis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 996 publications have been published within this topic receiving 28190 citations.


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TL;DR: There was a total occlusion of the artery supplying the territory of the infarct in 45 of 50 consecutive lacunes, and segmental arterial disorganization has been discussed in some detail.
Abstract: The arterial lesions causing lacunes have been investigated using serial sections of blocks of the basal ganglia and pons from four cases with a history of hypertension and small strokes. In 45 of 50 consecutive lacunes there was a total occlusion of the artery supplying the territory of the infarct. The associated vascular lesions were as follows: segmental arterial disorganization 40 (with enlargement 31, with hemorrhage 26, with fibrinoid deposit 14), thrombosis of a fusiform asymmetric microaneurysm, 2; plaque of foam cells (atherosclerosis) 3; complete absence of any lesion 1; suspected segmental disorganization 3; and miscellaneous 1. Segmental arterial disorganization has been discussed in some detail. Others have termed this condition hyalinosis, angionecrosis with aneurysm formation, plasmatic destruction, fibrinoid necrosis, fibrinoid arteritis, etc.

668 citations

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TL;DR: The lungs, immune organs, and systemic small vessels are the main targets of virus attack, so that extensive consolidation of the lung, diffuse alveolar damage with hyaline membrane formation, respiratory distress, and decreased immune function are themain causes of death.
Abstract: In order to investigate the clinical pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the autopsies of three patients who died from SARS in Nan Fang Hospital Guangdong, China were studied retrospectively. Routine haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining was used to study all of the tissues from the three cases. The lung tissue specimens were studied further with Macchiavello staining, viral inclusion body staining, reticulin staining, PAS staining, immunohistochemistry, ultrathin sectioning and staining, light microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. The first symptom was hyperpyrexia in all three cases, followed by progressive dyspnoea and lung field shadowing. The pulmonary lesions included bilateral extensive consolidation, localized haemorrhage and necrosis, desquamative pulmonary alveolitis and bronchitis, proliferation and desquamation of alveolar epithelial cells, exudation of protein and monocytes, lymphocytes and plasma cells in alveoli, hyaline membrane formation, and viral inclusion bodies in alveolar epithelial cells. There was also massive necrosis of splenic lymphoid tissue and localized necrosis in lymph nodes. Systemic vasculitis included oedema, localized fibrinoid necrosis, and infiltration of monocytes, lymphocytes, and plasma cells into vessel walls in the heart, lung, liver, kidney, adrenal gland, and the stroma of striated muscles. Thrombosis was present in small veins. Systemic toxic changes included degeneration and necrosis of the parenchyma cells in the lung, liver, kidney, heart, and adrenal gland. Electron microscopy demonstrated clusters of viral particles, consistent with coronavirus, in lung tissue. SARS is a systemic disease that injures many organs. The lungs, immune organs, and systemic small vessels are the main targets of virus attack, so that extensive consolidation of the lung, diffuse alveolar damage with hyaline membrane formation, respiratory distress, and decreased immune function are the main causes of death.

660 citations

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TL;DR: The features of brains from patients with CAA that are most consistently related to cerebral hemorrhage are a severe degree of CAA and the presence of fibrinoid necrosis, with or without microaneurysms.
Abstract: To identify those factors associated with cerebral hemorrhage among brains with cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), we undertook a comparative postmortem histopathological study of amyloid-containing vessels in the brains of patients with and without hemorrhage. Those without hemorrhage were represented by the following two groups: (1) elderly patients from a large general hospital (n = 66; age range, 75–107 years) and (2) patients with various neuropsychiatric disorders (n = 70; age range, 27–96 years). CAA was found in 45% of thefirst group and in 54% of the second group. The findings in these patients were compared with those in 17 brains in which both CAA and cerebral hemorrhage were present. We found that CAA was more severe in the brains with cerebral hemorrhage than in those without, and that fibrinoid necrosis was seen only in the brains with cerebral hemorrhage (12 of the 17 brains). Microaneurysms occurred only in the presence of severe, rather than moderate or mild, CAA. Serial sections in 2 brains of patients with cerebral hemorrhage showed fibrinoid necrosis, microaneurysms, and vascular rupture in close association with the hemorrhage. In 2 patients, hemorrhage was precipitated by trauma, and in 1, it was secondary to metastatic carcinoma. The features of brains from patients with CAA that are most consistently related to cerebral hemorrhage are (1) a severe degree of CAA and (2) the presence of fibrinoid necrosis, with or without microaneurysms.

515 citations

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TL;DR: Kawasaki disease is one with a pathologic pattern previously unknown, acute and inflammatory, and the angiitis begins in the microvessels and fibrinoid necrosis of the media is rare.
Abstract: Pathologic studies were done on 20 hearts of patients who had typical clinical signs and symptoms of Kawasaki disease. The cardiac lesions were classified according to the duration of illness at the time of death. Stage I (zero to nine days) was characterized by acute perivasculitis and vasculitis of the microvessels (arterioles, capillaries, and venules) and small arteries, and acute perivasculitis and endarteritis of the three major coronary arteries (MCAs). Pericarditis, myocarditis, inflammation of the atrioventricular conduction system, and endocarditis with valvulitis were also present. Stage II (12 to 25 days) was characterized by panvasculitis of the MCAs and aneurysm with thrombus in the stems. Myocarditis, coagulation necrosis, lesion of the conduction system, pericarditis, and endocarditis with valvulitis were also present. In stage III (28 to 31 days), granulation of the MCAs and disappearance of inflammation in the microvessels were noted. Patients in stage IV (40 days to 4 years) had scarring with severe stenosis in the MCAs. Fibrosis of the myocardium, coagulation necrosis, lesions of the conduction system, and endocardial fibroelastosis were also present. The features observed revealed Kawasaki disease to be acute and inflammatory. The angiitis begins in the microvessels and fibrinoid necrosis of the media is rare. The disease is one with a pathologic pattern previously unknown.

505 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, morphologic and morphometric studies were carried out on pulmonary vessels in lung tissue from 156 patients, for whom a diagnosis of primary pulmonary hypertension had been made, for which the media is only slightly thicker than normal; in 31 of the 156 cases the vascular lesions corresponded to this pattern.
Abstract: Morphologic and morphometric studies were carried out on pulmonary vessels in lung tissue from 156 patients, for whom a diagnosis of primary pulmonary hypertension had been made. This material was collected from 51 medical centers. Chronic pulmonary thromboembolism can be recognized by organizing thrombi, patchy intimal fibrosis, and intra-arterial septa. The media is only slightly thicker than normal; in 31 of the 156 cases the vascular lesions corresponded to this pattern. Other conditions such as chronic pulmonary venous hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, sarcoidosis, chronic bronchitis, and pulmonary schistosomiasis could also be classified from the morphologic criteria. The largest group comprised 110 cases showing medial hypertrophy, laminar intimal fibrosis, and often fibrinoid necrosis, arteritis, and plexiform lesions. These alterations suggest that they were initiated by vasoconstriction. In children the sex ratio is equal; in adults there are almost four females to one male. In the...

500 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20239
202234
202129
202024
201931
201822