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Mitral Stenosis
secondary to rheumatic fever/RHF (GAS);
Mitral valve Prolapse
Affects young women, associated with Marfan syndrome

Midsystolic click on auscultation
Enlarged, floppy mitral valve leaflets prolapse into atrium
Micro: myxomatous degeneration
Deprives certain tissues of oxygen or release of C02
Connection between artery (high pressure system) and vein (low pressure) is fragile and prone to bleed.
Atriovenous Malformation pre and post tx
Atriovenous Malformation; shows numerous (noncapillary) blood vessels; increased # of larger vessels in AVM but vessels are normal
Aortic Aneurysm; results in hemorrhage; can detect an abdominal pulsatile mass by palpation
berry aneurysm
ruptured abdominal aortic aneusym
Hemiangiomas; if cavernous can suggest Sturge Weber syndrome
Hemangioma; cavernous; strawberry hemangiomas often not tx but cavernous emangiomas involving eyelids or other facial parts often tx with steroid injections
Glomus Tumor; macroscopically you will see a red blue nodule on the fingers of patients, which microscopically consists of uniform, rounded cells with a centrally placed nucleus.
This is the case with hemangioendotheliomas, which are vascular neoplasms composed of different components including endothelial cells. These tumor have a wide spectrum of behaviors. Different variants exists depending on microscopic composition of the tumor. These are rare tumor and have an unknown etiology.
Kaposi Sarcoma; microscopically you see proliferation of vessels (though not well formed resulting in RBC extravasation)

low grade clonal endothelial proliferation with a variably vasoformative or spindle cell growth as a result to infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8).

Classically seen in ashkenazi jews
Angiosarcoma; malignant neoplasm derived either from blood or lyphatic vessels

Top right = normal endothelial cells; bottom right = malignant endothelial lining
Cardiac Myxoma; benign cardiac tumor; tends to arise in left atrium where it is attached to the fossa ovalis

Note bland appearing spindle cells in a bluish background (spindle cells in myxoid background)
Associated with tuberous sclerosis
Cardiac Rhabdomyoma; benign proliferation of cardiac myocytes that occurs almost exclusively in the heart

Top right = spider cells (myocyte with clear cytoplasm with pink strands)