what does perivascular fibrosis mean?
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Whoa......not quite so simple to explain on here...I was researching it for family reasons and this is a great article I found.
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atherosclerosis, is when u have rigid arteries; They have become hardened with time for lot of causes.(Most of the times the age <50-80> is the comun cause). Resistance to the sanguineous fluid increases and fluid haveto generate a higher sanguineos pressure. So it doesnt takes so long to notice cause u will start with high arterial pressure. So ur dr will notice it. Or u can notice it by being tired, cause ur heart is working harder. U can have headaches, inflamation in low extremities. The consecuences r: heart attack, cerebral isquemia (not only u have high blood presure.. u can get mad and increase that presure too 300 for ex, so u will develop a cerebral spill). So when y get the symptoms i told u before, u should go to the dr.
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Pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcano coniosis\n\nit doesn't have to do with volcanos its a lung disease sweetie.
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It means there is normal blood flow in those arteries, as moving blood in vessels appear as dark spots or "voids" on the MRI scan.
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I dont have FMD but I am familiar with the disease.  I work in a vascular surgery office so we see some of these patients.  FMD can affect your arteries-especially your renal arteries to your kidneys and your internal carotid arteries that feed your brain.  Health care professionls call it the "string of beads appearance" your arteries actually become narrowed and then normal and then narrowed again so blood flow is restricted through these arteries.  Usually this disease affects young(30-40's) women.  I would ask your doctor if you should see a vascular doctor of have some tests i.e. ultrasounds, angiograms to check your blood vessels for any of these narrowings.  If you have high blood pressure or are having any stroke like symptoms I would definately go to the doctor.
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I've never heard of 'cycle of the devils' before.  Are you talking about Heart Function decrease due to age and disease or when we are at rest?\n  If it's a Congestive Heart Failure Thing, I think that phrase might be referring to a destructive cycle between the kidneys and the heart.  When the heart decreases its function, the kidney sometimes read the lack of blood pressure as dehydration. So the kidneys keep water in the body to hopefully increase the fluids in the blood and therefore increase blood pressure.  This causes extra fluid in the blood and lymph system.  Since the heart is weak the fluid moves slowly and will seep into surrounding tissues.  That's why Feet swell up, it's called Edema.  It also seeps into the lungs, making it harder to take in Oxygen.  This signals the kidneys to keep more water in the body and excrete less.  this makes it worse.\n   I hope this helps, maybe it's nowhere near to the actual question you were asking.  Hey, you know more on CHF now!
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Peripheral artery disease is narrowing or closing down of the arteries in the far reaches of your vascular system. This would primarily effect the hands and feet, slowing, if not stopping blood flow to these areas.\n   This can cause cold limbs due to poor circulation.
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It has all the sounds of a problem with good blood circulation. Yes, you should be concerned about this. Look at this URL:\n\nhttp://www.lifelinescreening.com/disease_perph.asp?src=WGGL-063\n\nhttp://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003104.htm\n\nhttp://www.umm.edu/ency/article/003104.htm\n\nand at this GOOD one: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/sym/leg_swelling.htm
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If it is below the knees to the ankles in someone with heart disease, usually called venous stasis dermatitis.
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There is a lot more to this story than you understand, wrote, or were told.  The condition you describe is called cardiac tamponode and it is not a complication that I have ever heard of from angioplasty...ever.  Additionally, I have never heard of doing a pericardialcentisis and re-injecting the fluid (which almost certainly is not pure blood) directly back into the patient's blood stream.  It usually is sent to the lab for evaluation to help determine where the fluid is coming from.  That part of the evaluation is key to treating the condition.  With the use of steriods it sounds like the doctor is treating pericarditis - an inflammatory condition of the bag that surrounds your heart insulating it from the chest wall.  Pericarditis can be an uncomfortable condition that usually responds to steriods or anti-inflammatories or both.  \n\nI agree that it may be time to seek additional help.  If you doctor is truely baffled I would think he would welcome additional input.  Consider going to a university center for a full evaluation - even if it means traveling.  You only get one heart.  Good luck.
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No it does not mean that.  It is possible that it can be alot of different things. Get to a doc.
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I think what your cousin's doctor was describing was a "berry" aneurysm, which is a type of aneurysm that forms where arteries in the brain branch off from each other.(The name comes from their appearance--they look like a small berry.)  They are thought to be due to congenital weakness in the arterial walls. They are usually small, and not the kind of thing that tend to burst abruptly. There have been cases when they are only discovered incidentally at autopsy.  They can cause problems, however, and they tend to occur at multiple sites. They'll probably just follow him up periodically to make sure there aren't any issues.
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You have a sac which surrounds your heart called the pericardium, it normally contains a small amount of fluid. This sac prevents friction from occuring on the heart while it is beating (so it doesn't rub against other organs). If you have a pericardial effusion, it means that there is fluid buildup in the sac moreso than normal. A trivial effusion is too small to  consider tapping and draining it with a needle, and your body will likely reabsorb the excess.
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basically the lungs cant function and become "fibrotic" or very hard.
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Hypertensive nephropathy (or "hypertensive nephrosclerosis", or "Hypertensive renal disease") is a medical condition referring to damage to the kidney due to chronic high blood pressure.\n\nIt should be distinguished from "renovascular hypertension" (I15.0), which is a form of secondary hypertension.\n\nIn the kidneys, as a result of benign arterial hypertension, hyaline (pink, amorphous, homogeneous material) accumulates in the wall of small arteries and arterioles, producing the thickening of their walls and the narrowing of the lumens - hyaline arteriolosclerosis. Consequent ischemia will produce tubular atrophy, interstitial fibrosis, glomerular alterations (smaller glomeruli with different degrees of hyalinization - from mild to sclerosis of glomeruli) and periglomerular fibrosis. In advanced stages, renal failure will occur. Functional nephrons have dilated tubules, often with hyaline casts in the lumens.
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Local dilatation (dilatation of blood vessels).
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basically, it means an acute exacerbation of a chronic condition. ie, asthma is chronic, and you can have an acute exacerbation. Diabetes is chronic, and you get acute exacerbations (like acidosis). chronic kidney failure can get acutely worse (acute on chronic kidney failure) etc etc