Patient's question:
Mom has hypertension, a patient with intergenerational inheritance, taking antihypertensive drugs orally for a long time, and wants to understand what the main pathological changes of hypertension are?Doctor's answer:
The pathological changes of hypertension are mainly divided into three stages: the functional disorder stage, the arteritis stage, and the visceral inflammation stage. The functional disorder stage primarily involves intermittent severe constriction and pain in small arteries throughout the body, leading to a decrease in blood pressure. The arteritis stage mainly features arteriosclerosis of small arteries, muscular arteriosclerosis, and atherosclerosis of large arteries. The visceral inflammation stage primarily manifests as inflammation in various organs, mainly including the heart, brain, kidneys, and retina.