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Diarrhoea in Cats and Dogs Flashcards

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What characterises small bowel diarrhoea?

A 
large volumes
melena (digested blood)
weight loss
\+/- vomiting 
no mucus
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What characterises large bowel diarrhoea?

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Small volumes
High frequency
Fresh blood
Tenesmus
Dyschezia
\+/- vomiting
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DDx for Acute Small Intestinal Diarrhoea with no systemic signs

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Dietary
Helminths
Protozoa - Giardia
Iatrogenic - Drugs

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DDx for Acute Small Intestinal Diarrhoea with systemic signs

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Bacterial Infection - salmonella, campy,
Viral Infection - distemper, parvovirus, panluekopaenia
Toxins
HGE
Acute Pancreatitis
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Bacterial Infection - salmonella, campy,
Viral Infection - distemper, parvovirus, panluekopaenia
Acute Pancreatitis

What tests would you do for each of these?

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Bacterial Infection - salmonella, campy, (Faecal Culture)
Viral Infection - distemper, parvovirus, panluekopaenia (Faecal Antigen Test)
Acute Pancreatitis - (Ultrasound, Pancreatic Lipase)

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DDx for Acute Large Intestinal Diarrhoea

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Whipworms
Clostridia
Giardia
Campy

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DDx for Acute Chronic Small Intestinal Diarrhoea

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Metabolic - hepatic disease, hyperthroidism, addisons disease, renal insufficency
Pancreatic - EPI, Chronic Pancreatisis
Intestinal - Giardia, Chronic partial obstruction, Lymphangiectasia, Neoplasia (Lymphosarcoma), food responsive disease, IBD

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Which conditions can be classified as antibiotic responsive diarrhoea?

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Neoplasia (Lymphosarcoma),
food responsive disease,
IBD

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DDx for large intestinal diarrhoea: Colon

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Intestinal - IBD, Polyps, Food- Responsive Disease, Neoplasia, Tritrichomonas foetus.

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What are the mortality rates for exlap biopsies and endoscopic biopsies?

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20% Mortality Ex-Lap

2% Mortality Endoscopy

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How long do you need to trial a diet for, as an exclusion for diarrhoea?

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6-8 weeks

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What did ARD used to be called?

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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

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What is the Abx of choice for ARD?

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Metronidazole 15mg/kg PO 4 weeks

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What is the most common chronic enteropathy in dogs?

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IBD

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What are 3 different classes of IBD found on histopath?

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Lympho-plasmacellular
Eosinophillic
Ulcerative Colitis

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