07 - disorders of skin (cont) Flashcards

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(disorders of the skin)

(cutaneous habronemiasis)

  1. cause?
  2. most common when?
  3. larvae cause significant inflamm response (lesions can persist even after parasite killed)
  4. once develops in a horse, yearly recurrence common
A
  1. aberrant intradermal migration of larvae of stomach worm habronema muscae (also habronema majus, drachia megastoma)

larvae deposited into moist, traumatized skin or wounds

  1. during fly season
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(disorders of the skin)

(cutaneous habronemiasis)

  1. dx?
A
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(disorders of the skin)

(cutaneous habronemiasis)

  1. tx?

what medication!

A
  1. IVERMECTIN!
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(disorders of the skin)

(pythiosis)

  1. due to infection with what?
  2. infection occurs how?
  3. found where?
  4. very locally agressive - zoonotic?
A
  1. pythium insidiosum
  2. through open wounds or breaks in the skin
  3. water sources (common in South)

aka swamp cancer…

  1. YES!
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(disorders of the skin)

(pythiosis)

  1. Cx?
  2. common sites?
A
  1. distal limbs, ventral abdomen
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(disorders of the skin)

(pythiosis)

  1. dx?
A
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(disorders of the skin)

(pythiosis)

  1. tx?
A
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(disorders of the skin)

(pythiosis)

  1. prognosis?
A
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(disorders of the skin)

(exuberant granulation tissue)

  1. secondary to wound healing - usually where?
  2. more common in horses than ponies
  3. delays wound healing - thought to be secondary to what?
A
  1. distal limb
  2. chronic inflammation of the wound bed
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(disorders of the skin)

(exuberant granulation tissue)

  1. Cx?
  2. what bacteria often involved?
A
  1. pseudomonas
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(disorders of the skin)

(exuberant granulation tissue)

  1. tx?
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