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Cardiovascular pathology 2 Flashcards

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Describe the appearance of normal pericardial fluid.

What is the normal volume in horses and dogs/cats?

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  • Clear, viscous fluid
  • Horse/cow 100 ml
  • Dog/cat: 10 ml
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Describe a hydropericardium

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Accumulation of clear to light yellow, watery, serous fluid (transudate: specific gravity < 1.015) in the pericardial sac

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In which disease is a hydropericardium associated with vascular injury?

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Mulberry heart disease in pigs
- a few fibrin strands are present, and the fluid could clot following exposure to air (exudate: specific gravity >1.015).

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Describe the gross appearance of a hydropericardium in acute and chronic cases

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Acute - pericardial surfaces are smooth and glistening

Chronic - pericardial surfaces are opaque with mild fibrous thickening due to villous proliferation of fibrous tissue

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A hydropericardium is associated with diseases that have…?

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Generalised oedema

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Hydropericardium: Associated with those diseases that have generalized oedema - give examples

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  • Increased vascular permeability: viruses, bacteria, type III hypersensitivity, toxins
  • Increased intravascular hydrostatic pressure: pulmonary hypertension, iatrogenic fluid overload
  • Decreased intravascular osmotic pressure: decreased albumin production, protein loss
  • Decreased lymphatic drainage: inflammation, obstruction
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What is a cardiac tamponade?

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Compression caused by fluid surrounding the heart which impairs cardiac filling and venous return to the heart

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What is a haemorrhagic pericardial effusion?

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Deposition of small amounts of blood, chronically - unknown aeitiology

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What is a haemopericardium?

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Accumulation of large amounts of blood in the pericardium

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What are the consequences of a haemopericardium?

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Cardiac tamponade, leading to compression and interfering with cardiac filling and emptying

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What are 3 possible causes of a haemopericardium?

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  • Atrial rupture due to a haemangiosarcoma of the right atrium in dogs
  • Rupture of the intrapericardial aorta in horses
  • Complications with intracardiac injections
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What is the name given to a pericardial sac filled with air, how might this occur?

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Pneumopericardium

- perforations in the oesophagus/stomach pass through the mediastinum near the pericardium

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How does a chylopericardium occur?

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Rupture of the thoracic duct which releases chyle - often white and gelatinous

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Why would serous atrophy of epicardial adipose tissue occur?

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Anorexia, starvation, cachexia, as fat is catabolised to maintain energy balance
- cases of emaciation

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How does atrophy of epicardial adipose tissue appear grossly?

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Transformation of the white or yellow epicardial fat deposits e.g. coronary groove, into grey gelatinous material

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How does atrophy of epicardial adipose tissue appear microscopically?

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Lipocytes are atrophic and oedema fluid is present in the interstitial tissue

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Peri- / Epicarditis is?

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Inflammation of peri/ epicardium

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What are the portals of entry for inflammatory processes to get to the heart?

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  • Foreign body penetration: From reticulum (cattle)
  • Local extension of severe inflammatory processes from adjacent structures (thoracic cavity / lungs / oesophagus)
  • Haematogenous spread of viruses / bacteria
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Describe the different types of exudate

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  • Serous = watery, low in protein and inflammatory cells
  • Fibrinous = acute
  • Purulent = dominated by neutrophils
  • Sero-fibrinous
  • Fibrino–purulent
  • Proliferative fibrosing = chronic inflammation
  • Granulomatous = chronic, macrophage dominated
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Which of the following is acute and which is chronic:

  • Fibrous
  • Fibrinous
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  • Fibrinous = acute

- Fibrous = chronic

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How is the specific gravity of transudate and exudate different?

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Transudate SG less than 1.015
- metabolic disorders
Exudate SG more than 1.015
- inflammatory

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How does fibrinous pericarditis appear grossly?

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  • Pericardial surfaces are covered by variable amounts of yellow fibrin deposits, adherence between the parietal and visceral layers.
  • When the pericardial sac is opened upon necropsy, these attachments are torn away
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How does fibrinous pericarditis appear microscopically?

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An eosinophilic layer of fibrin admixed with few neutrophils lies over a congested pericardium.

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What are the two outcomes of fibrinous pericarditis?

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  1. Early death by septicaemia

2. Constrictive pericarditis (proliferative fibrosing) - becomes thickened and scarred

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Describe constrictive pericarditis as an outcome of fibrinous pericarditis

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  • Survival is prolonged => fibrous organization of the exudate forming fibrous adhesions between the surfaces
  • This obliterates the pericardial sac constricting the heart with fibrous tissue interfering with cardiac filling and output
  • Compensatory myocardial hypertrophy develops diminishing ventricular chamber volumes and contributing to eventual congestive cardiac failure
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What are some diseases in different species that causes fibrinous pericarditis?

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  • Cats: FIP
  • Cattle: Pasteurellosis
  • Pigs: Glasser’s disease, pasteurellosis, Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
  • Horses: Streptococcus spp
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What causes Glasser’s disease in pigs?

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Haemophilus parasuis

28
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Describe the features (subacute and chronic) and cause of Glasser’s disease in pigs

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Subacute lesions - pleuritis, pericarditis, peritonitis with or without bronchopneumonia
Chronic lesions - proliferating fibrosing
Cause - stress (weaning, transport)

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A horse with a streptococcal infection will have what changes to their heart?

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Proliferative fibrosing - fibrin covering of the heart

Muscular hypertrophy

30
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What is the difference between fibrinous and Fibrino-suppurative?

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Increased numbers of neutrophils in Fibrino-suppurative

31
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How does Fibrino-suppurative pericarditis appear grossly?

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Pericardial surfaces are thickened by white, often rough, shaggy-appearing masses of fibrin with purulent exudate i.e .neutrophils

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What are the two outcomes of Fibrino-suppurative pericarditis ?

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  1. Early death by septicaemia.
  2. Constrictive pericarditis: When survival is prolonged, there is a fibrous organization of the exudate forming fibrous adhesions between the surfaces => obliterates the pericardial sac and constricts the heart with fibrous tissue interfering with cardiac filling and output => myocardial hypertrophy develops diminishing ventricular chamber volumes and contributing to the eventual congestive cardiac failure
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Which disease in cattle is an example of Fibrino-suppurative pericarditis?

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Traumatic reticulopericarditis “Wire” or “Hardware disease” in cattle

34
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Describe traumatic reticulopericarditis “Wire” or “Hardware disease” in cattle

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  • Due to foreign bodies, often sharp / pointed that accumulate in the reticulum
  • Contraction of the reticulorumen caused the foreign body to penetrate the reticular wall and diaphragm enters the adjacent pericardial sac.
  • Bacteria are transferred with the foreign body to establish infection
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What is visceral gout, what are 3 causes of it?

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Imbalance between production and excretion of uric acid

  • Congenital enzymatic deficiencies
  • Dietary: animal protein to herbivorous species in reptiles
  • Increased catabolism (debilitating diseases, tumours)
36
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What are some other causes of visceral gout?

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  • Renal diseases: nephritis, tubular damages, Urolithiasis (kidney stones)
  • Dehydration
37
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In which species is visceral gout seen?

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Reptiles and birds

38
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Describe the gross lesions seen in pericardial gout (uric pericarditis)

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  • Uric acid deposition (urate crystals) in peri- and epicardium elicit a peripheral mixed cellular inflammatory response (macrophages and heterophils)
  • Grossly: white, gritty deposits (tophi)
39
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Describe the histological appearance of pericardial gout (uric pericarditis)

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Urate crystals and mixed cell inflammation (macrophages and heterophils - avian granulocyte)

40
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What are the causes of endocardial mineralisation?

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  • Excess vitamin D intake
  • Intoxication by carcinogenic plants
  • Hyperparathyroidism
  • Renal failure
  • Johne’s disease
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How does endocardial mineralisation appear grossly?

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Multiple, large, white, rough, firm plaques of mineralised fibroelastic tissue within endocardium and intima of large elastic arteries

42
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When does endocardial fibrosis occur (2 examples)?

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  • chronically dilated hearts
  • healed ulcerative endocarditis
  • jet lesions e.g. valvular stenosis/regurgitation
43
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Describe valvular endocardiosis

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Myxomatous degeneration

  • Age-related cardiac disease of small and toy breeds (Cavalier King Charles Spaniel)
  • Associated with degeneration of valvular collagen
44
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How does valvular endocardiosis appear grossly?

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Affected valves are shortened and thickened (nodular) appearing smooth and shiny

45
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What are the consequences of valvular endocardiosis?

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Results in valvular insufficiency and congestive heart failure
- Development of jet lesions and rupture of chordae tendineae are common.

46
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What is the order of likeliness for each valve being affected by valvular endocardiosis?

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mitral > tricuspid > aortic > pulmonary

47
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Describe left ventricular endocardial fibroelastosis

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  • Defect in myocardial lymph drainage leads to chronic oedema and fibroelastic tissue proliferation
  • Restricted myocardial motion produces a reduction in output and can cause failure
48
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What can cause endocarditis?

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Haematogenous spread of infectious agents (bacteria>parasites>fungi)

  • Pigs: Strep and E.rhusiopathiae
  • Cattle: Arcanobacterium pyogenes
  • Dogs/cats: Strep and E.coli
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How does endocarditis appear grossly?

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The surface is rough and granular, with large, adhering, friable, yellow to grey masses “vegetations”

50
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How does endocarditis appear microscopically - cells and chronic lesions?

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  • Fibrin, platelets, bacteria, leukocytes and erythrocytes.
  • In chronic lesions, the fibrin deposits are organized by fibrous connective tissue to produce irregular nodular masses that can become mineralised
51
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Describe the pathogenesis of endocarditis

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Extracardiac infection - one or more bouts of bacteraemia

Injured valves - bacteria adhere, proliferate and initiate an inflammatory reaction

52
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Death due to endocarditis is a result of?

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  • Cardiac failure from valvular dysfunction
  • Bacteraemia
  • Septic emboli leading to infarction or abscess formation in other organs (lungs, kidneys).
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Describe right cardiac endocarditis

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Stenosis of right valve, chronic hepatic congestion and pulmonary embolism

54
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Describe left cardiac endocarditis

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Stenosis of left valve, chronic pulmonary congestion and systemic embolism (kidney)

55
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Endocarditis is seen most commonly on which side of the heart?

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Left - except in cows

56
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What is sequela to endocarditis?

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  • Septic emboli disseminate throughout the body: “Embloic showers”, multifocal purulent lesions scattered randomly throughout an organ e.g. kidney
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Endocarditis is rare in which species?

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Cats

58
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Describe ulcerative endocarditis and its gross appearance

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  • Uraemia (acute renal insufficency) induce endocardial ulceration in dogs.
  • Grossly after the initial ulcer heals, the area is replaced by raised, white plaques of fibrous and mineralised tissue.

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