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T/F: dogs and cats develop alimentary neoplasia more often than farm animals

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True

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What should a normal oral or gastro-intestinal mucosa look like?

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Smooth and shiny

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What are some of the mechanisms against disease for the alimentary system?

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Saliva 
Gastric pH
Immunoglobulins 
Vomiting 
Intestinal proteolytic enzymes 
Phagocytosis 
High rate of epithelial turnover 
Increases peristalsis
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What is palatoschisis?

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Cleft palate

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What is cheiloschisis?

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Cleft lip

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What are toxins that can can a palatoschisis or cheiloschisis?

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Teratogenic plants

  • Veratrum californicum
  • Lupines
  • poison hemlock

Maternal exposure to drugs

  • griesofulivin (mares and queens)
  • steroids (primates)
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What is a malocclusion ?

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Failure to the upper and lower incisors to interdigitate properly

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In what cases do you see “step mouth”

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Abnormal wearing of the teeth

Common in herbivores

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What disease is present when resident bacterial films, acid, and enzymes lead to enamel, gingival, and periodontal ligament damage

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Periodontal disease

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What do you call mineralized dental plaque?

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Dental calculus

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A major part of chronic periodontal disease is the resorption of __________________

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Alveolar bone

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__________________ can be due to both a canine distemper in dogs or due to intrauterine BVD in the calf

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Enamel hypoplasia

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A primary disease of the tongue that is most commonly seen in cattle

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Actinobacillus lignieresii

Wooden tongue

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Actinobacillus lignieresii causes what type of lesion?

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Pyogranulomatous foci

With radiation amorphous eosinophilic material

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A disease of young animals that have been treated for antibiotics for long periods of time and causes hyperkeratosis of the tongue

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Thrush (candidiasis)

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Cat with bright red gingiva
Very painful
Histology shows… plasma cells, histiocytes, and lymphocytes

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Lymphoplasmacytic gingivitis

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Cat with oral pain, dysphasia, ptyalism and weight loss
Inflammation at base of tongue
What is the disease name ?

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Feline chronic gingivitis-stomatitis

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In an older dog
Along the gingiva and upper lip…
redness with congestion and erosion

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Chronic ulcerative (lymphoma-pasmactyic) paradental stomatitis

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What causes vesicular stomatitides in the cat?

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Calicivirus infection

Vesicular glossitis

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What is the pathogenesis of viral vesicular stomatitides?

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Pathogenesis: viral induced epithelial damage–> intracellular edema in keratinocytes (ballooning degeneration)–> vesicles —> bulla –> rupture leads to erosion and ulceration

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Vesicular stomatitis on a farm
Only the ruminants and pigs are affected, the horses are showing no signs of illness
EDX:

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Foot and mouth disease (picornaviridae)

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Vesicular stomatitis on a farm infecting the ruminants, pigs, and horses?

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Vesicular stomatitis (rhabdovirus)

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Your pig farm has a outbreak of vesicular stomatitis, what are the possible EDX?

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Foot and mouth - picornovius
Vesicular stomatitis - rhabdovirus
Vesicular exanthema of swine - calicivirus
Swine vesicular disease -enterovirus

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T/F: foot and mouth disease is a high contagious disease with low morbidity and high mortality

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False

High morbidity and low mortality

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What is the pathogenesis of FMD?
Ingest or inhale virus -> pharynx -> viremia -> oral mucosal and epidermal sites -> lesions develop in areas subjected to mechanical injury
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The malignant form of FMD occurs in young animals and is characterized by ?
Myocardial necrosis | "Tiger heart"
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A viral disease that occurs only in pigs that causes vesicles and ulcers around the snout and oral cavity
Vesicular exanthema (calicivirus)
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BVD and malignant catarrhal fever both cause what type of stomatitides ??
Erosive-ulcerative BVD will also cause enamel hypoplasia
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Bovine papular stomatitis is caused by?? Where do you see the lesions?
Parapoxvius Nares, muzzle, oral cavity
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In a sheep... Loss of condition of sheep Pustules and vesicles around the nose and mouth EDX?
Orf AKA contagious ecthyma AKA contagious viral pustular dermatitis AKA sore mouth
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What filamentous bacteria causes oral necrobacillosis and necrotizing lesions on the hoofs?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
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What causes an ulcerative an necrotizing inflammation of the buccal, pharyngeal, and laryngeal mucosa. Sometimes with a fibronecrotizing membrane
Calf diphtheria | Fusobacterium necrophorum
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In a cat | Bright red, enlarged buccal mucsoa
Feline eosinophilic granuloma
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What are the three types of eosinophilic immune responses in cats
Feline eosinophilic plaque (cutaneous) Feline eosinophilic granuloma (cutaneous/mucous) Indolent ulcer (upper lip)
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Histologically, what is characteristic of equine eosinophilic granuloma?
Flame figures | -degerative collagen
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What is the generic clinical term for tumor-like masses on the gingiva?
Epulis
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What are reactive hyperplasia lesions that can be found in the oral cavity
Pyogenic granuloma -bright red on gums of dogs Peripheral giant cell granuloma -gingival mass that can be smooth, sessile, or preduculated Fibrous hyperplasia - generalized and diffuse or foal, localized to one or more teeth
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A tumor of the periodontal ligament
Fibromatous epulis
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Are fibromatous and ossifying epulis benign OR malignant
Benign
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Cauliflower like Ellison on the lips and oral mucosa of dog? EDX?
Canine papilloma virus 1 and 13 AKA Canine oral papillomatosis
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What lesion appears in histology as a verrucous lesions composed of thick keratinized stratified squamous epithelium covering a pendunculate CT core
Oral papilloma
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What is the most common oral malignancy in dogs?
Oral melanoma
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What is the most common oral malignancy in cats?
Squamous cell carcinoma
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What oral neoplasm in horses is usually locally invasive, hard, malignant, but rarely metastasizes?
Fibrosarcoma
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Define aptyalism
Reduced or absent saliva secretion
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Define sialoliths
Calcareous concretion or calculus in salivary duct or gland
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Define ptyalism
Increased saliva secretion
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Define sialocele
Salivary mucocele, accumulation of salivary secretion in single or multiloculated cavity not line by secretory epithelium in the soft tissue of mouth or neck
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Define sialoadenitis
Inflammation of salivary glands
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Congenital megaesophagus is caused by/?
Persistent right aortic arch (PRAA) -> aorta develops form the right and loops around esophagus causing strangulation and dilation of the cranial portion of the esophagus
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Megaesophagus is AKA?
Esophageal ectasia
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What are acquired causes of megaesophagus?
Idiopathic | Manifestation of myasthenia gravis (poor muscle constriction)
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What is the sequela of megaesophagus?
Malnutrition emaciantion, dehydration, osteopenia Rhinitis and aspiration pneumonia
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A zone/band of necrosis within the esophagus is likely due to?
Esophageal obstruction/impaction --> can lead to secondary bacterial infection
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Linear area of hemorrhage within he esophagus and erosion of the lower part of esophagus
Reflux- esophagitis --> acidic gastric juices build up in esophagus
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Reflux-esophagtitis is most commonly seen when???
Dog and cat Surgery involving general anesthesia
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What is the DDX for multifocal erosive-ulcerative esophatitis in cattle?
BVD Bovine papular stomatitis infectious bovine rhinotracheitis Rinderpest (eradicated)
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What is the EDX for multifocal erosive-ulcerative esophagitis in cat
Feline calicivirus
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In dog Granulomatous esophagitis Sarcomatous lesions->Osteosarcoma and fibrosarcoma EDX
Parasitic esophagitis Spirocera lupi
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Gongylonema pulchrum parasite migrates through the esophageal mucosa causing blood filled tracks and small hematoma. What is the significance to the ruminant?
None-> no clinical consequence
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What do you call over-distention of the rumen and recticulum by gases produced during fermentation
Ruminants tympany or bloat
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What is a primary cause of ruminal bloat
New diet (eg alfalfa)
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What is a secondary cause of ruminal bloat?
Physical or functional obstruction of the esophagus --> failure to eructate
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What is a indicator of ante-mortem bloat in cattle?
Bloat line
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What can the sequel of tramautic recticularis be in cattle?
Recticuloperitonitis (hardware) Vagus indigestion and ruminal atony Chronic pericarditis and epicarditis (necrosupperative )
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A chemical rumenitits can be caused by ___________ in cattle and leads to epidermal destruction
Lactic acidosis -> grain overload
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What is the main complication of F necrophorus rumentitis?
Liver absences
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What does F necrophorus cause in the rumen?
Plaques of coalescing ares of necrosis on rumenal mucosa
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What is a stellate ulcer?
Healed ulcer in rumenal mucosa (rumenal scar) -- fibrous CT
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Hyperemia of the rumen Submucosal venular thrombosis EDX?
Mycotic rumentitis (fungus localized int he vessel walls)
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Dog (large breed) Progressive abdominal distention Non-producing retching Hypersalivation Restlessness
Gastric dilatation-volvulus Leads to venous infraction due to strangulation
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Disease occurring most commonly in post-parturent dairy cows that causes abdominal pain, elevated HR, anorexia, dehydration, depressed peristalsis with lack of feces and abomasal tympany
Abdominal displacement
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How can you tell an ante-mortem from a post-mortem gastric rupture ?
Ante mortem: borders are congested and reddened Post-mortem: no Redding, still contains food
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Most gastric ruptures in horses are due to ??
Intestinal obstruction (ileus) Can by adynamic or mechanical
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What is your top dx for a pig with gastric ulceration?
Pigs fed finely ground rations High wheat component with low protein High copper High unsaturated FA Histamine stress
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What is the pathogenesis of ulceration caused by NSAIDS?
Decreased prostaglandin synthesis --> Loss of epithelium
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T/F: most gastic uclers in cat and dog are idiopathic
True
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What type of neoplasm can be associated with gastric ulcer?
Mast cell tumor | -> histamine bind to parietal cells and increase HCl secretion
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What are possible causes of ulcers?
``` NSAID Steroid Stress Mast cell tumor or matocytosis Islet cell tumor or gastronomes ```
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What location in the horse is predisposed to ulceration caused by NSAIDS?
Right dorsal colon Has net water secretion in this section
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Thrombosis and hemorrhage in the stomach of a pig can be secondary to?
Endotoxemia or bacterial sepsis ``` Salmonellosis E.coli Hemophilus parasuis (Glassers disease) Erysipelas Swine dysentery PSNS (PCV-2) ```
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Uremic gastropathy causes what type of lesions?
Hypertrophic mucosa | Widespread gastric mineralization
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Clostridum septicum causes what in lambs?
Abomasitis (braxy) Necro-hemorrhagic with submucosal emphysema -congestion and deposits of fibrin
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___________ abomastitis is often a sequel of long-term antibiotic therapy which destroys resident bacterial flora
Mycotic --> aspergillus, absidia, rhizopus, and mucor spp.
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In the stomach.. Multifocal, bright red hemorrhagic lesions Most likely cause?
Mycotic Fungus targets and destroy vessel walls
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Larvae causing erosive-ulcerative lesions in the stomach of horse
Gasterophilus nasalis/intestinalis
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What causes the "Moroccan leather" appearance of abdominal mucosa
Ostertagia spp Proliferative (hyperplastic) abbomasitis
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What causes granulomaout gastritis in the horse
Draschia megastoma (nematode) -> brood pouch close to Margo plicatus
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Sheep Bottle jaw Pale mucous membranes Abomatitis
Haemoncus contours "barberpole worm" -> leads to blood loss, anemia, and hypoproteinemia
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Type of neoplasm found in the stomach of horse? Will you find similar neoplasm in dogs
Squamous cell carcinoma Not in dogs-> do not have squamous epithelium
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Small tiny white masses implanted in peritoneum of horse. What type of neoplasm???
Peritoneal carconomatosis
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T/F: lymphosarcoma can be associated with the stomach in the lamina propria
True
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What virus is responsible for lymphosarcoma in the abomasum of a cow?
Bovine leukemia virus -> abomasal involved with ulceration of abomasal folds

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