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masonkingcobra
From Robbin's:
Fibromuscular dysplasia is a focal irregular thickening of the walls of medium-sized and large muscular arteries due to a combination of medial and intimal hyperplasia and fibrosis. It can manifest at any age but occurs most frequently in young women. The focal wall thickening results in luminal stenosis or can be associated with abnormal vessel spasm that reduces vascular flow; in the renal arteries, it can lead to renovascular hypertension. Between the focal segments of thickened wall, the artery often also exhibits medial attenuation; vascular outpouchings can develop in these portions of the vessel and sometimes rupture.
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asapdoc
I thought this was a weirdly worded answer. I immediately ( stupidly) crossed of fibromuscular dysplasia since it wasnt a younger women =/
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uslme123
I was thinking malignant nephrosclerosis ... but I guess you'd get hyperplastic arteries first -_-
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hello
The answer choice is fibromuscular HYPERplasia - I think this is different from fibromuscular DYSplasia (seen in young women);
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yotsubato
hello is right. Fibromuscular hyperplasia is thickening of the muscular layer of the arteriole in response to chronic hypertension (as the question stem implies)
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smc213
Fibromuscular Hyperplasia vs Dysplasia...... are supposedly the SAME thing with multiple names.
Fibromuscular dysplasia, also known as fibromuscular hyperplasia, medial hyperplasia, or arterial dysplasia, is a relatively uncommon multifocal arterial disease of unknown cause, characterized by nonatherosclerotic abnormalities involving the smooth muscle, fibrous and elastic tissue, of small- to medium-sized arterial walls.
http://www.medlink.com/article/fibromuscular_dysplasia
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smc213
*sorry I had to post this because it was confusing!!!*Fibromuscular dysplasia is most common in women between the ages of 40 of and 60, but the condition can also occur in children and the elderly. The majority (more than 90%) of patients with FMD are women. However, men can also have FMD, and those who do have a higher risk of complications such as aneurysms (bulging) or dissections (tears) in the arteries.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17001-fibromuscular-dysplasia-fmd
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momina_amjad
These questions are driving me crazy- fibromuscular dysplasia/hyperplasia is the same thing, and it is NOT this presentation and it doesn't refer to arteriolosclerosis seen in malignant HTN!
Is the HTN a cause, or a consequence? I read it as being the cause (uncontrolled HTN for many years)
If it was the consequence, the presentation is still not classical! -_-
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charcot_bouchard
Also guys if u take it as Fibromuscular dysplasia resulting in RAS none of the answer choice matches
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charcot_bouchard
Not really, Hypotension cause pre renal azotemia. Here long standing HTN resulting in end organ damage so intrinsic renal failure
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cry2mucheveryday
ugh! i just noticed there's a fairly long h/o of poorly controlled HTN which makes this question simpler now. Thanks!!
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j44n
arterioles are in the kidney.... ya know like afferent/efferent ARTERIOLE @ the glom. if this was in the renal artery he'd have pre renal azotemia
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lovebug
I am not sure. but I thought E) multiple wedge-shaped cortical infarct . could be induced by multiple embolism of artery. or complete blocks of small artery junctions..(blockage of blood junction)
but this case was hyperplastic arterioloscelrosis.
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hiroshimi
I think hyperplastic arteriosclerosis meaning that the wall of the artery is thicker, and that narrows the lumen, making it more "stiff" and reduce compliance. It's exactly what you see in patient with HTN. Think about pt with aortic stenosis, it's similar. In contrast, in aneurysm, the wall of the artery is actually thinner, the wall is weakened, that's why it's easier to rupture, think about the aortic aneurysm, it's more likely to rupture if's not treated.
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submitted by โhayayah(1212)
Case of arteriolosclerosis.
Hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis involves thickening of vessel wall by hyperplasia of smooth muscle ('onion-skin appearance')