Heart and Artery Damage and High Blood Pressure. There are several harmful consequences for your arteries and heart because high blood pressure, also called HBP or hypertension, places a higher workload on them. It addition, high blood pressure can damage other organs. Watch an animation of how HBP affects your arteries and your heart.
Just as dermatologists have a responsibility to identify medical conditions with cutaneous manifestations, they must be alert for psychological conditions affecting the skin.
For centuries, keloids and hypertrophic scars have been recognized as abnormal responses to trauma. Although morphologic differences between these two entities have been acknowledged for years, discovery of a histopathologic distinction is more recent.