BOD 2 & 3 Flashcards
Thymus’s default reaction to injury
atrophy
involution at sexual maturity normal, unless rodent or rabbit
- Grower/weaner pigs 6-16 wks with systemic infection/chronic wasting/failure to thrive
- On necropsy see lymphadenitis, thymic depletion
- Histo shows active granulomatous inflammation, lymphoid depletion
PCV-2 causing Thymitis (really only main clinical cause why you’d see thymitis)
2 types of thymic neoplasia and assoc’d signalments
- Thymic lymphosarcoma (T cells) - likely FeLV assoc’d if cat (+/- chylous effusion)
- Thymoma (epithelial cells) - adult goats
2 paraneoplastic syndromes for thymoma
Dogs - myasthenia gravis
Cats - feline exfoliative dermatitis
DDx’s for diffuse, gelatinous, bloody, splenomegaly
Splenic torsion
Barbiturates
Splenitis
DDx’s for nodular, gelatinous, bloody, splenomegaly
Hematoma
Hemangioma
Hemangiosarcoma
Acute splenic infarction
Primary sites for hemangiosarcoma
spleen liver right atrium bone marrow skin
How do you differentiate between African and Classical swine fever?
Classical - acute splenic infarcts
African - blood splenomegaly
DDx’s for diffuse, meaty, solid splenomegaly (bulges on cut)
Lymphosarcoma
Mastocytosis
Hyperplasia (d/t increased immune stim, phagocytosis, or hematoposesis
DDx’s for nodular, meaty, solid splenomegaly (bulges on cut)
- nodular lymphoid hyperpalsia (lymphoid follicle proliferation)
- neoplasm
- granuloma or abscess (septic bacterial, fungal, protozoal)
primary splenic neoplasms (causing nodular splenomegaly)
LSA - can cause diffuse or nodular
leiomyosarcoma, fibrosarcoma
Myelolipoma
neoplasms that commonly metastasize to the spleen
mammary carcinoma
squamous cell carcinoma
osteosarcoma
Causes of lymphadenitis
Classic or african swine fever - hemorrhagic necrotizing lymphadenitis
Corynebacterium pseutoTB - casesous lymphadenitis
Mycobacterium tuberculosis or bovis - granulomatous lymphadenitis
Peripheral, caseous lymphadenitis in a goat
Corynebacterium pseutoTB
fever + weight loss mild anemia stress leukogram Paraneoplastic hypercalcemia (d/t PTHrP) lymphadenopathy organomegaly - spleen or liver usually
Clin signs of LSA in dog (B cell most often)
what virus causes LSA in adult cattle
BLV - bov leukosis virus (Retrovirus)
where is the multicentric location of LSA in cattle
HURLS - heart, uterus, retro-orbital/renal, lymph nodes, spinal cord/stomach
what disease state often predisposes dogs/cats for lymphangectasia (dilated lymph vessels)? rum?
d/c - PLE, chronic lymphangitis
rum - Johne’s dz
what causes serous atrophy of bone marrow adipose
negative E balance
Infectious causes of aplastic anemia
CPV-2, feline panleukopenia, FeLV, Rickettsia, Ehrlichia
why are young livestock at increased risk of septicemia –> physitis or osteomyelitis
decreased or failed passive transfer
Sequestrum and involucrum MOA
trauma/hypoxia –> bone necrosis –> foreign body reaction, lytic/exudate pocket
2 pathologies of non-infectious osteomyelitis in young dogs
Panosteitis - medullary fibrosis, shifting leg lameness Metaphyseal osteopathy (or hypertrophic osteodystrophy) - double physis on rads, progressive lameness
4 types of metabolic bone disease (all d/t Ca/P imbalance)
Osteoporosis
Osteomalacia
Rickets
Fibrous osteodystrophy
What causes osteomalacia (defective mineralization of bone)
vit d deficiency (decreased Ca, P absorption) Phosphorus deficiency (or Ca or both)
MOA of rickets
- Vit D or P deficiency –> defective mineralization of osteoid in the physis (how differs from osteomalacia), juveniles only –> deformities
- get metaphyseal flaring, rachitic rosary
Fibrous osteodystrophy MOA
Primary hyperparathyroidism (rare) or Secondary " " (renal dz or nutritional issue) --> High PTH --> excess Ca release from bone --> replacement fibrosis - soft spongy bones, rubber jaw
How does renal dz cause secondary hyperparathyroidism (thus, fibrous osteodystrophy)
Decreased excretion of P = high P, low Ca = increased PTH secretion = more Ca mobilized from bone
How does nutrition cause secondary hyperparathyroidism (thus, fibrous osteodystrophy)
high P, low Ca, low Vit D = increased PTH secretion = more Ca mobilized from bone
e.g. carn on meat diet, Pig/EQ on grain/bran diets, lack of UVB in reptiles
Osteochondrodysplasia
abnormal endochondrial ossification –> defective cartilage development –> (disproportionate) dwarf stature or uncontrolled growth (e.g. daschhounds)
What is the most common primary bone tumor in domestics?
Osteosarcoma
(malignant mesenchymal tumor of osteoblasts
produces osteoid)
Osteosarcoma behavior
Osteolytic - destroys cortical bone, stimulates reactive woven bone, inflamm around site
Highly invasive but doesn’t cross joints/articular surfaces
often metastasizes to lungs early
Eburnation
subchondral bone exposed through cartilage
How does synovium respond to injury?
inflammation
villous hyperplasia of synoviocytes
Pannus (fibroplasia over areas of eburnation)