Digestive System Flashcards
1
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Clinical Signs:
- Halitosis
- Pawing at mouth
- Reluctance to eat/play with toys
- Head shyness
- Oral pain
- Personality changes
- Sneezing, nasal discharge
- Increased salivation
- Facial swelling
- Tooth loss
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Peridontal Disease
2
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Anorexia
- Dysphagia
- Excessive salivation
- Regurgitation
- Concurrent signs of respiratory disease
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Esophagitis or Gastroesophageal Reflux
3
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Exaggerated swallowing movements
- Increased salivation
- Restlessness
- Retching
- Anorexia
- History of chewing on foreign objects
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Esophageal Obstruction
4
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Anorexia
- Acute onset of vomiting
- Presence or absence of dehydration
- Presence of absence of painful abdomen
- History of dietary change, toxin ingestion, or infection –History of internal parasites
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Acute Gastritis
5
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Chronic vomiting
- Weight loss
- Diarrhea
- Straining to defecate, mucus in stool
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Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Chronic Gastritis, Enteritis, Colitis)
6
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Anemia
- Edema
- Melena
- Anorexia
- Abdominal pain
- Septicemia
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Gastric ulceration
7
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Weakness, collapse
- Depression
- Nausea
- Nonproductive retching
- Hypersalivation
- Abdominal pain and distension
- Increased heart rate and respiratory rates
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Gastric dilation-volvulus (GDV)
8
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Weight loss
- Vomiting +/- blood
- Obstruction
- Usually seen in older animals
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Gastric Neoplasia
9
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Diarrhea
- Presence or absence of blood
- Presence or absence of vomiting
- Weight loss
- Poor hair coat
- Listlessness
- Anorexia
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Parasitical Diarrhea
10
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Diarrhea, with little weight loss
- Increased frequency of defecation and decreased fecal volume
- Tenesmus
- Hematochezia
- Increased mucus
- Mild fever
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease
11
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Acute onset of symptoms
- Anorexia
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea or constipation
- PU or PD
- Presence/Absence of jaundice
- Melena, hematuria, or both
- Signs of CNS involvement: Depression, ataxia, dementia, blindness, seizures and coma
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Drug or Toxin-Induced Liver Disease (Acute)
12
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Weight loss
- Anorexia
- Weakness
- Ascites
- Jaundice
- PU or PD
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Drug or Toxin-Induced Liver Disease (Chronic)
13
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Petechial hemorrhages
- Lethargy
- Fever > 103*F
- Depression
- Pale Mucous membranes
- Abdominal pain
- Anorexia
- Corneal opacities “blue eye”
- Bloody diarrhea
- Hepatomegaly
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Infectious Canine Hepatitis
14
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Acute renal failure
- Dehydration
- Vomiting
- Fever
- Increased thirst
- Reluctance to move
- Jaundice
- Peracute shock and death
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Leptospirosis
15
Q
Clinical Signs:
- Anorexia
- Obesity
- Weight loss (often >25% of body weight)
- Depression
- Sporadic vomiting
- Icterus
- Mild hepatomegaly
- Presence/Absence of bleeding tendencies
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Feline Hepatic Lipidosis (Idiopathic)
