ML2921: Tissue Interactions and Biocompatibility
Cell and tissue damage
Ischemic and Hypoxic Injury
Reversible Cell Injury - Morphology
- Cellular swelling
- First manifestation of all forms of injury
- As water accumulates, vacuoles appear within cytoplasm
- Fatty change
- Occurs in cells involved in and dependent upon fat metabolism e.g. hepatocytes and myocardial cells