4. Hyperemia and CongestionHyperemia and Congestion
• Both indicate a local increased volume of
blood in a particular tissue.
• There is increased vascular volume
• Hyperemia is an active process - arteriolar
dilation – arterial side
• Congestion is a passive process -
impaired outflow – venous side - may be
systemic / local
5. HyperemiaHyperemia CongestionCongestion
Blood volume Increased Increased
Vascular
volume Increased Increased
Mechanism Active –
chemicals
Passive –
stagnation
Vascular
compartment Arterial side Venous side
Site Usually local Local / systemic
6.
7. Hydrostatic pressure is increased in both
the conditions, hence
Hyperemia and congestion are always
associated with edema
Hyperemia and CongestionHyperemia and Congestion
14. Left-sided cardiac failure
Clinical presentation
1. Due to obstruction to pulmonary vascular out-flow there
is pulmonary congestion and edema.
2. Reduction of renal perfusion causes:
(i) Salt and water retention (ii) Ischemic acute tubular
necrosis
(iii) Impairment of waste excretion causing azotemia.
3. Reduced perfusion of central nervous system causes
hypoxic encephalopathy (irritability to coma).
15. Right-sided cardiac failure
Causes:
1. Most common cause is the left ventricular failure, causing pulmonary congestion and
raised pulmonary arterial pressure.
2. Intrinsic disease of lungs and pulmonary vasculature causing obstruction to right
ventricular out-flow (cor pulmonale).
3. Pulmonary or tricuspid valve disease.
4. Congenital heart disease in which there is left-to-right shunt.
Example: (i) Patent foramen ovale ; (ii) Patent ductus arterisus and (iii) Interventricular
septal defect.
Other causes:
i) Extracardiac circulatory failure. Example: Haemorrhage ; vasovagal syncope etc.
ii) Impaired atrial filling by external compression. Example: Constrictive pericarditis.
16. Right-sided cardiac failure
Clinical presentation
1. Congestion and edema of portal and dependent
peripheral sites
(Eg: feet, ankle, sacrum) and effusions in pleura and
peritoneum (ascites).
2. Hepatomagaly - Centrilobular congestion and atrophy of
central hepatocytes (nutmeg liver)
3. Congestive splenomegaly with sinusoidal dilation, focal
hemorrhage followed by hemosiderosis and fibrosis.
4. Renal congestion causes acute hypoxic tubular necrosis.
19. CVC liver -- GrossCVC liver -- Gross
In chronic passive congestion of the liver
(nutmeg liver)
the central regions of the hepatic lobules are
grossly red-brown and slightly depressed
(owing to a loss of cells) and are
accentuated against the surrounding
zones of uncongested tan liver (nutmeg
liver)
23. • Centrilobular necrosis with loss of
hepatocytes dropout and
• Hemorrhage, including hemosiderin-laden
macrophages
• Hepatic fibrosis [In severe, long-standing
hepatic congestion there may even be
grossly evident hepatic fibrosis (cardiac
cirrhosis)]
CVC liver -- microscopyCVC liver -- microscopy
24. In acute hepatic congestion:
• Central vein and sinusoids are distended
with blood
• Central hepatocyte degeneration
• The periportal hepatocytes - may only
develop fatty change.
CVC liver -- MicroscopyCVC liver -- Microscopy
29. Centrilobular necrosis - causesCentrilobular necrosis - causes
NOTE: Because the central portion of the
hepatic lobule is the last to receive blood,
centrilobular necrosis can also occur
whenever there is reduced hepatic blood
flow (including shock from any cause);
there need not be previous hepatic
congestion.
The terms hyperemia and congestion both indicate a local increased volume of blood in a particular tissue. Hyperemia is an active process resulting from augmented tissue inflow because of arteriolar dilation, as in skeletal muscle during exercise or at sites of inflammation. The affected tissue is redder because of the engorgement of vessels with oxygenated blood. Congestion is a passive process resulting from impaired outflow from a tissue. It may occur systemically, as in cardiac failure, or it may be local, resulting from an isolated venous obstruction. The tissue has a blue-red color (cyanosis), particularly as worsening congestion leads to accumulation of deoxygenated hemoglobin in the affected tissues ( Fig. 4-3 ).
The terms hyperemia and congestion both indicate a local increased volume of blood in a particular tissue. Hyperemia is an active process resulting from augmented tissue inflow because of arteriolar dilation, as in skeletal muscle during exercise or at sites of inflammation. The affected tissue is redder because of the engorgement of vessels with oxygenated blood. Congestion is a passive process resulting from impaired outflow from a tissue. It may occur systemically, as in cardiac failure, or it may be local, resulting from an isolated venous obstruction. The tissue has a blue-red color (cyanosis), particularly as worsening congestion leads to accumulation of deoxygenated hemoglobin in the affected tissues ( Fig. 4-3 ).
Figure 4-3 Hyperemia versus congestion. In both cases there is an increased volume and pressure of blood in a given tissue with associated capillary dilation and a potential for fluid extravasation. In hyperemia, increased inflow leads to engorgement with oxygenated blood, resulting in erythema. In congestion, diminished outflow leads to a capillary bed swollen with deoxygenated venous blood and resulting in cyanosis.
Conjunctival hyperemia
Blanching hyperemia Gum hyperplasia, with abnormal vessels evident on the hard palate.
In severe, long-standing hepatic congestion (most commonly associated with heart failure), there may even be grossly evident hepatic fibrosis (cardiac cirrhosis).
The periportal hepatocytes, better oxygenated because of their proximity to hepatic arterioles, experience less severe hypoxia and may only develop fatty change.
Figure 4-4 Liver with chronic passive congestion and hemorrhagic necrosis. A, Central areas are red and slightly depressed compared with the surrounding tan viable parenchyma, forming the so-called "nutmeg liver" pattern. B, Centrilobular necrosis with degenerating hepatocytes, hemorrhage, and sparse acute inflammation. (Courtesy of Dr. James Crawford, Department of Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.)
Note the round, clear, lipid vacuoles in the surviving hepatocytes
Pulmonary congestion with dilated capillaries and leakage of blood into alveolar spaces leads to an increase in hemosiderin-laden macrophages, as seen here. Brown granules of hemosiderin from break down of RBC's appear in the macrophage cytoplasm. These macrophages are sometimes called "heart failure cells" because of their association with pulmonary congestion with congestive heart failure.