Meanings
- not comparablemedicineGiving rise to weblike or plexiform structures.
Pulmonary arteriopathy may be plexogenic (medial hypertrophy, intimal fibrosis and lesions involving the entire vessel wall) or thrombotic (medial hypertrophy, thrombosis and eccentric non-laminar intimal fibrosis).
2014, Anjeleena Kumar Gupta, Anjali Ghera, Shashank Pandey, “Liver Transplantation: Porto-pulmonary Hypertension”, in Jayashree Sood, Vijay Vohra, editors, Anesthesia for Transplant Surgery, New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 1821 more example
Wiener-Kronish's case showed plexogenic pulmonary angiopathy and positive immunofluorescent staining for IgG, C₃ and C1q in the lung (1981). […] Although the aetiology of plexogenic pulmonary arteriopathy is unknown, most evidences indicate a vasospastic origin of the disease (Wagenvoort CA and Wagenvoort N 1970).
1984 December, Ueda, N., Mimura, K., Maeda, H., Sugiyama, T., Kado, T., Kobayashi, K., Fukuzaki, H., “Mixed connective tissue disease with fatal pulmonary hypertension and a review of literature”, in Virchows Archiv A: Pathological Anatomy and Histology, volume 404, number 4, →DOI, pages 339–340
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