Angiopathy
The term angiopathy (Latin angiopathia ; from ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον angeion , German 'vessel' , and πάθος pathos , German 'pain, suffering' ), German vascular disease or vascular disease , is used in medicine as a generic term for various diseases and findings that actually or supposedly changes in the vessels are the basis.
Most of the term is in a narrow sense only for degenerative or arteriosclerotic , associated with circulatory disorders, changes in the arteries ( arteries used), it is often between the infestation mostly very small vessels ( microangiopathy ) and larger vessels ( macroangiopathy . See atherosclerosis ) distinguished.
Among the peripheral vascular disease peripheral include circulatory disorders (e.g. Raynaud's disease and other functional localized vascular disorders, inflammatory organic vascular disorders such as thromboangiitis obliterans and periarteritis nodosa and degenerative vascular diseases such as atherosclerotic circulatory disorders), arteriovenous aneurysm , arterial thrombosis and embolism , as well as local venous extensions venous Thrombosis and thrombophlebitis .
Of particular importance to diabetic angiopathies to which as a result of increased blood sugar occur and as diabetic retinopathy to retinal changes as diabetic glomerulosclerosis to renal damage, as diabetic neuropathy clinically manifest to one or subclinical disease of the peripheral nervous and as diabetic peripheral angiopathy to Ulcers and gangrene in the legs lead.
literature
- Herbert Reindell , Helmut Klepzig: diseases of the heart and blood vessels. In: Ludwig Heilmeyer (ed.): Textbook of internal medicine. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1955; 2nd edition ibid. 1961, pp. 450-598, here: pp. 590-598 ( diseases of the peripheral vessels ).
