Colon Angiodysplasia (6 of 24)

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The exact mechanism of development of angiodysplasia is not known, but chronic venous obstruction may play a role. This hypothesis accounts for the high prevalence of these lesions in the right colon and is based on the Laplace law. The Laplace law relates wall tension to luminal size and transmural pressure difference in a cylinder, whereby the wall tension is equal to the pressure difference multiplied by the radius of the cylinder. In the case of the colon, wall tension refers to intramural tension, the pressure difference is that between the bowel lumen and the peritoneal cavity, and cylinder radius is the radius of the right colon. Wall tension is highest in bowel segments with the greatest diameter, such as the right colon.

tags: colonoscopy colon Angiodysplasia pressure obstruction

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