Patho final peel iwu - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

precipitating factors - triggers acute episode predisposing factor - risk factors Pathogenesis - development of disease prophylaxis - prevent spread of disease Morbidity - disease rates within a group mortality - relative number of deaths resulting from a particular disease free radical formation - - Hypoxic injury leads to anaerobic metabolism leads to lactic acidosis leads to decrease in ATP/failure of K+/Na+ pump leads to reperfusion injury leads to reactive oxygen species/free radica...