Prevention and Screening

Medicine progresses very rapidly and it advances exponentially. Due to scientific discovery, changes in what we perceive to be traditional healthcare are constantly being redefined and modified, and consequently, treatment standards are forced to undergo change.

1. Cell injury (a) Cause and mechanism: Ischemic, Toxic and Apoptosis (b) Reversible cell injury: Types, morphology, hyaline, fatty change (c) Irreversible cell injury: Types of necrosis, gangrene (d) Calcification: Dystrophic and metastatic (e) Extracellular accumulation: Amyloidosis, classification, pathogenesis, morphology 2. Inflammation and repair (a) Acute inflammation: features, causes, vascular and cellular events. (b) Morphological variant of acute inflammation (c) Inflammatory cells and mediators (d) Chronic inflammation: causes, types, non-specific and granulomatous with common examples.