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3 – Pericardium and Endocardium Flashcards

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Serous atrophy of fat

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  • *gelatinous appearance
  • Epicardial fat
  • Bone-marrow
  • Kidney
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When does serous atrophy of fat occur?

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  • When individual has a NEGATIVE energy balance
  • Starvation
  • Chronic inflammation (Ex. Johnes)
  • Severe GI problems
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Pericardial hemorrhages common post-mortem finding in animals that suffered

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  • Hypoxia
  • Sepsis or septicemia
  • Toxemia
  • DIC
  • Coagulopathies
  • Electrocution
  • *terminal finding in large animals
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Classification of hemorrhages: according to size

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  • Petechial
  • Ecchymotic
  • Paint brush
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Pericardial effusions

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  • Accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac
  • Transudate, blood, exudate
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Distention of the pericardial sac: notably enlarge on physical damage to accommodate

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  • Excess fluid in hydropericardium
  • Non-fatal progressive pericardial hemorrhage in hemopericardium
  • Exudate in pericarditis
  • Enlarged heart in cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyopathy
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Transudate

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  • Clear fluid
  • Low cellularity
  • Low protein
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Exudate

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  • Turbid
  • High cellularity
  • PMNs (polymultinuclear neutrophils)
  • High protein
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Hydropericardium

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  • Transudate pericardial effusion
  • Pericardial surfaces remain SMOOTH and GLISTENING
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Hydropericardium pathogenesis

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  • Hydrostatic
  • Hypoproteinemia
  • Altered vascular permeability (ex. mulberry heart)
  • *can be due to salt (NaCl) toxicity in chickens
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Hydrostatic pathogenesis for hydropericardium

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  • R heart failure
  • Pulmonary hypertension
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Hypoproteinemia pathogenesis for hydropericardium

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  • Emaciation
  • Protein losing enteropathy/nephropathy
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Hemopericardium

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  • Blood pericardial effusion
  • Predominantly RBCs
  • High protein
  • Caution: blood-tinged fluid occurs normally as a post-mortem finding
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Hemopericardium can be caused by

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  • Atrial or aortic rupture
  • Hemangiosarcoma
  • Cardiac trauma/puncture
  • *acute hemorrhage can cause CARDIAC TAMPONADE->sudden DEATH
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Hemangiosarcoma in dog causing hemopericardium

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  • Dark b/c neoplastic cells form blood-filled vascular channels
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Pericarditis

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  • Exudate pericardial effusion
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According to the exudate in pericarditis: classification

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  • Fibrinous (most common)
  • Suppurative (purulent)
  • Fibrinohemorrhagic
  • Granulomatous
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Fibrinous pericarditis

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  • APPEARANCE: ‘bread and butter’, ‘cor villosum’
  • Most commonly a result of bacterial infection
  • Can be due to extension of a local inflammatory process
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Polyserositis (Glasser’s disease)

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  • Due to GLAESSERELLA PARASUIS
  • Fibrin and fluid in pericardial sac
  • Fibrinopurulent exudate in joints
  • (streptococcus suis type 2 can cause similar lesions in pigs)
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Black leg (clostridial myositis)

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  • Fibrinous pericarditis commonly seen
    o Fibrin strands in pericardial sac
  • Black discolouration of leg muscle
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Traumatic reticulopericarditis

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  • When ruminant eats wire or nails and it pokes forward into the pericardium
  • Dilated and thickened pericardial sac with fibrosis
  • Sac is filled with exudate
  • Epicardial surface is covered by exudate
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Chronic pericarditis

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  • Brisket edema due to heart failure (compressive)
  • Distended pericardial sac
  • Sac filled with fibrin and blood
  • Organized fibrin on epicardium
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Chronic constrictive pericarditis

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  • Heart is encased in a dense fibrous or fibrocalcific scar
  • May obliterate pericardial space
  • *in extreme cases=resembles a plaster mold (‘concretio cordis’)
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Examples of endocardial diseases

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  • Endocardial fibrosis
  • Endocardial mineralization
  • Valvular cysts
  • Endocarditis
  • Myxomatous degeneration
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Acquired (secondary) fibrosis

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  • Focal or generalized
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What is the most common cause of focal acquired fibrosis?

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  • Abnormal blood turbulences in atria or ventricles caused by ‘jet lesions’
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“jet lesions”

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  • Occur when mechanical injury caused by turbulence damage to the endocardium
  • Commonly seen in valvular insufficiencies (see them on the atrial endocardium)
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What is the most common cause of diffuse acquired fibrosis?

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  • Sub-endocardial fibrosis secondary to prolonged cardiac dilation
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Primary endocardial fibroelastosis

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  • Occurs as hereditary disease in humans and Burmese cats (no underlying cardiac disease)
  • Pathogenesis is uncertain
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Gross lesions and microscopic lesions of endocardial fibrosis and fibroelastosis

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  • Endocardium appears thickened=due to abnormal deposition of collage and elastic fibers
    o smooth or corrugated surface
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Clinical relevance of endocardial fibrosis and fibroelastosis

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  • Severe generalized fibrosis can impair ventricular filling during diastole and reduced SV leading to congestive heart failure
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Subendocardial fibrosis

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  • Increased collagen deposition
    o secondary to prolonged blood turbulence caused by a congenital heart defect
  • Grossly: diffusely white, thickened endocardium
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Endocardial mineralization

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  • Abnormal deposition of calcium or mineral in the endocardium
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Types of endocardial mineralization

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  • Metastatic
  • Dystrophic
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Metastatic endocardial mineralization

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  • High levels of circulating Ca2+ in hypercalcemic states
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Dystrophic endocardial mineralization

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  • Secondary calcification in INJURED endocardium
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What are the most common causes of endocardial mineralization in domestic animals?

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  • Hypervitaminosis D
  • Chronic granulomatous diseases
  • Uremia (uremic endocarditis)
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Hypervitaminosis D (endocardial mineralization)

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  • When give excess vitamin D
  • Ex. ingest Vitamin D analogs=present in some rodenticides or toxic plants
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Toxic plant examples for VItamin D analogs

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  • Solanum malacoxylon
  • Cestrum diurnum
  • Trisetum flavescens
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Chronic granulomatous diseases (endocardial mineralization)

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  • Ex. bovines with paraTB or TB
    o Endocardial and arterial mineralization
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Valvular cysts

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  • Particularly common in calves
  • ‘incidental finding’
  • Can regress or disappear
  • No clinical significance
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Cysts are classified as

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  • Lymphocyst
  • Hematocyst
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Lymphocyst

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  • Content is clear fluid
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Hematocyst

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  • Content is blood
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Myxomatous valvular degeneration (endocardiosis)

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  • Most common cardiac lesion found at necropsy in mature dogs
  • Incidence increases with age
  • Typically affects mitral valve
  • NODULAR THICKENING of valve with a smooth, shiny surface
    o May see hooding of leaflets toward the atrium (valve prolapse)
  • May or may not cause valvular dysfunction and clinical signs
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Endocardiosis and ruptured chordae tendineae

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  • Rupture causes eversion of leaflet into atrium
  • Test by filling ventricle with water and compressing the heart, if rupture=1 or more chordae will whip out during ‘manual systole’
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Endocarditis

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  • Inflammation of the endocardium
  • Occurs in all species
  • Most frequently caused by BACTERIA (less extent by fungi and parasites)
  • Classify based on location and gross appearance
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Endocarditis based on location

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  • Valvular endocarditis (valves)
  • Mural endocarditis (ventricular or atrial wall)
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Endocarditis based on gross appearance

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  • Vegetative
  • Ulcerative
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Vegetative endocarditis

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  • Cauliflower-like mass of exudate and fibrin attached to a heart valve OR endocardium
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Ulcerative endocarditis

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  • Endocardium is ulcerated
  • Ex. dogs with uremia
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What is a common sequel to endocarditis?

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  • Thromboembolism
    o Mitral or aortic endocarditis often cause renal infarcts
    o Tricuspid and pulmonic endocarditis cause pulmonary infarcts or embolic pneumonia
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Vegetative valvular endocarditis

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  • Common in farm animals (pigs and cattle) suffering from BACTEREMIA
  • Occasionally seen in dogs and cats
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What are the most common bacteria isolated from endocarditis in horses?

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  • Streptococcus equi
  • Actinobacillus equuli
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What are the most common bacteria isolated from endocarditis in cattle?

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  • Trueperalla (Arcanobacterium) pyogenes
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What are the most common bacteria isolated from endocarditis in pigs?

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  • Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
  • Streptococcus suis type II
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What are the most common bacteria isolated from endocarditis in dogs?

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  • Staphylococcus aureus
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What are the most common bacteria isolated from endocarditis in cats?

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  • Bartonella
  • Streptpococcus sp.
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Vegetative mass on tricuspid valve in cow causing

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  • Right sided heart failure
  • Hydrothorax
  • ‘nutmeg liver’
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Vegetative valvular endocarditis: histopathology

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  • Bacterial colonies
  • Neutrophils and cell debris
  • Connective tissue and macrophages
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What is the lesion that indicates embolism?

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  • Multiple embolic foci (white dots surrounded by a red halo)
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What can all be seen in a dog with uremia with chronic renal failure?

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  • Endocarditis
  • Mineralization
  • Fibrous tissue (scar) formation

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