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==Fibromuscular dysplasia== | ==Fibromuscular dysplasia== | ||
*Abbreviated ''FMD''. | |||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
Etiology: | Etiology: | ||
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Gender: | Gender: | ||
*Women > men. | *Women > men. | ||
*May be seen in virtually any artery. | |||
*Reported as a cause of sudden death with involvement of the artery supplying the AV node.<ref name=pmid17179675>{{Cite journal | last1 = Lee | first1 = S. | last2 = Chae | first2 = J. | last3 = Cho | first3 = Y. | title = Causes of sudden death related to sexual activity: results of a medicolegal postmortem study from 2001 to 2005. | journal = J Korean Med Sci | volume = 21 | issue = 6 | pages = 995-9 | month = Dec | year = 2006 | doi = | PMID = 17179675 | URL = http://jkms.kams.or.kr/fulltext/html/jkms21995h.html }}</ref> | |||
===Gross/radiologic=== | ===Gross/radiologic=== | ||
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*Luminal narrowing. | *Luminal narrowing. | ||
Images: | |||
*[http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Digital_Path/systemic_path/cardio/fibromuscular-dysplasia.html FMD (brown.edu)]. | *[http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Digital_Path/systemic_path/cardio/fibromuscular-dysplasia.html FMD (brown.edu)]. | ||
*[http://jkms.kams.or.kr/fulltext/image/jkms21995f3.jpg FMD of AV nodal artery (kams.or.kr)].<ref name=pmid17179675/> | |||
===Stains=== | ===Stains=== | ||
*[[Elastic trichrome]] or [[Movat stain]] - to demonstrate elastic fibre fragmentation. | *[[Elastic trichrome]] or [[Movat stain]] - to demonstrate elastic fibre fragmentation. | ||