– Glomerular diseases and renal failure.
Bone pathology (fractures, osteomyelitis, Paget disease, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma), joint disorders (osteoarthritis vs. rheumatoid arthritis, gout, pseudogout), soft tissue tumors (lipoma, liposarcoma, fibromatosis, rhabdomyosarcoma), and skeletal muscle diseases (muscular dystrophies, myasthenia gravis).
Cervical pathology (CIN, squamous cell carcinoma, HPV), uterine pathology (endometriosis, leiomyomas, endometrial hyperplasia/carcinoma), ovarian tumors (serous, mucinous, endometrioid, teratoma), gestational trophoblastic disease, and breast pathology (fibrocystic changes, proliferative breast disease, ductal/lobular carcinoma in situ, invasive carcinoma, and molecular subtypes like ER/PR/HER2). – Glomerular diseases and renal failure
– Hypersensitivity, autoimmunity, and immunodeficiency (including HIV/AIDS).
Her chest tightened. Congestive heart failure. Ischemic heart disease. Cardiomyopathy. Her ex-husband’s face floated up—pale, sweating, clutching his left arm while she drove him to the ER three years ago. That was the night they stopped fighting about money and started fighting about prognosis. The chapter’s words were clinical, precise. But between the lines, Elena read the silence of a marriage unraveling under the weight of an ejection fraction of 35%. Congestive heart failure
– Congenital anomalies and pediatric-specific tumors. Part II: Diseases of Organ Systems – Systemic Pathology
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The final chapters address diseases that transcend single organ systems or require special integration.
This chapter explains edema, hyperemia, congestion, hemostasis, thrombosis (Virchow’s triad), embolism (including DVT and pulmonary embolism), infarction, and the three stages of shock (cardiogenic, hypovolemic, septic).