The pulmonary vasculature in lung tissue from four patients with severe pulmonary hypertension is shown. The patients were characterized clinically as Category 1 (IPAH), Category 2 (left ventricular failure), Category 3 (interstitial lung disease), and Category 4 (chronic thromboembolic disease). However, each specimen reveals similar changes in the pulmonary arteriole showing medial hypertrophy and intimal proliferation. What is pulmonary arterial hypertension?: Rich S - Pulmonary circulation (2012). Not altered. CC.
Vascular pathology is any disease or disorder that affects the vascular system.
Vascular pathology includes:
- Vascular anomalies
- Vascular wall response to injury
- Hypertensive vascular disease
- Arteriosclerosis
- Atherosclerosis
- Aneurysms
- Dissections
- Vasculitis
- Disorders of blood vessel
- Vein abnormalities
- Lymphatic abnormalities
- Vascular tumors
