Bacillary Angiomatosis Histology

Bacillary angiomatosis ba is a form of angiomatosis associated with bacteria of the genus bartonella.
Bacillary angiomatosis histology. Typically there are ulcerated papules or nodules composed of lobules of highly vascularized oedematous connective tissue figure 1. 1 february 2019 last major update july 2013. Lymph nodes infectious parasitic disorders. Histology of bacillary angiomatosis histologically the lesions of bacillary angiomatosis closely resemble pyogenic granuloma.
It is also rarely seen as a consequence of immunosuppression related to solid organ transplantation 2. Bacillary angiomatosis is an infectious disease causing proliferation of small blood vessels in the skin and visceral organs of patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and other immunocompromised hosts. Bacillary angiomatosis is caused by rickettsia like organism bartonella henselae. Home lymph nodes spleen nonlymphoid bacillary angiomatosis.
The presence of neutrophils leukocytoclastic debris and granular material. Bacillary angiomatosis ba a manifestation of bartonella mediated disease seen most commonly in immunocompromised hosts was first described in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus hiv 1. Angiomatosis is a non neoplastic condition characterised by nests of proliferating capillaries arranged in a lobular pattern displacing adjacent muscle and fat. Condition which we have called bacillary angiomatosis the architecture resembled that of lobular capillary hemangioma pyogenic granuloma but the endothelial cells were often larger polygonal and sometimes markedly atypical.
It is caused by bacterial infection with bartonella quintana and bartonella henselae cause of catscratch disease and also known as rochalimaea henselae. It consists of many angiomas. Bacillary angiomatosis is the second most common cause of angiomatous skin lesions in persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus hiv. Bacillary angiomatosis is a systemic illness characterised by lesions similar to those of kaposi sarcoma in the skin mucosal surfaces liver spleen and other organs.