Alimentary Tract Pathology - Stomach, Intestines Flashcards
Stomach - physical influences - gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV) - predisposing factors (7)

Stomach - predisposed dog breeds to gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV) (8)

Stomach - physical influences - gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV) - pathogenesis and consequences (5)





Gastric ulceration - how it happens, pathogenesis and main signs (6)

Gastric ulceration causes (7)





Gastric ulceration - equine gastric ulcerative syndrome (EGUS) (2)



Gastritis types (5)

Gastritis causes and species differences (11)









Stomach - portals of entry/pathways of spread

Congenital intestinal abnormalities (4)

Stenosis - causes (2)

Types of atresia (3)

Causes of atresia

Stenosis and atresia







Megacolon types (3)





Causes of intestinal obstruction (physical and functional) (8)



Consequences of intestinal obstruction (9)



Types of displacements of the intestine (6)

Torsion/volvulus









Intussusception definition
When one segment of intestine becomes telescoped into the immediately distal segment of intestine

Intussusception causes (3)







Herniations definition
Displacements of intestine; the intestine is not in the right place where it should physiologically normally be (internal and external)
Internal herniations
Herniations formed through a normal or pathologic foramen in the abdominal cavity
Types of internal herniations (3)





External herniations definition
Herniations formed when a hernial sac, formed by a pouch of parietal peritoneum, penetrates outside the abdominal cavity
Types of external herniations (4)







Inflammation of intestine terminology (8)




Enteritis
Enteritis - types of exudate and causes (13)

Viral enteritis target sites (4)

Atrophic enteritis - rotavirus



Atrophic to necrotising enteritis - parvovirus (dogs) and panleukopenia (cats) - types of lesions (6)











Haemorrhagic/necrotising enteritis - Clostridium perfringens (4)





Lymphoplasmacytic enteritis - IBD (5)



Granulomatous enteritis - Johne’s disease (4)



Granuloma








Fibrino-necrotising enteritis - Salmonellosis pathogenesis





Reaction of intestine to injury and repair
