Cardiovascular Flashcards
Heart from a feedlot cow at slaughter.
Most likely MDx?
Agonal hemorrhage
Heart from calf.
MDx?
Etology?
MDx: Fibrinous pericarditis
Etiology: Clostridium Chavoei
Heart from a pig.
MDx?
Etiology?
Name of Disease?
MDx: Fibrinous pericarditis
Etiology: Haemophilus parasuis
Glasser’s Disease
What is the lesion annoted by the arrow?
What 3 associated lesions would you expect to have as a result?
What species would this be most common in?
Ventricular septal defect
Jet lesions in the R ventricular wall, R ventricular hypertrophy, R-sided congestive heart failure.
Most common in cattle
Heart from a pig.
MDx?
Etiology?
Name of disease?
Myocardial hemorrhage and necrosis
Vit. E/Selenium deficiency
Mulberry Heart disease
Note- will often see pleural effusion and pulmonary edema with this as well.
Heart from a grazing cow. She has been reluctant to rise and is off feed for several days.
MDx?
Name of disease?
Fibrinosuppurative pericarditis
Hardware Disease
MDx for “jet lesions”?
Endocardial fibroelastosis
Uremic endocarditis will cause a _______ endocarditis, whereas a bacterial endocarditis will cause a _______endocarditis.
mural, ulcerative
valvular, thrombotic
Cross-section of 2 major structures in a dog: L: Pulmonary artery
R: Aorta
MDx?
2 major etiologies?
Pulmonary thrombosis
Dirofilaria immitidis
Renal disease (loss of AT III)
The lesion shown will manifest on the (Right/left side of the heart) for a calf and the (right/left side of the heart) for a lamb, and represents:
A. Fibrosis
B. Serous atrophy of fat
C. Dystrophic calcification
D. Metastatic calcification
Name of disease? Etiology?
Calf- left side
Lamb- right side
C. Dystrophic calcification
White muscle disease
Vit. E/Selenium Deficiency
You are called out to a farm on which several cows and horses have died suddenly. In the necropsy, you see subtle heart lesions as depicted below and the histopathology report reads “Cardiomyocyte degeneration and necrosis.”
What is the most likely etiology?
Monensin/ Ionophore toxicity
