Eq2 - mid1 - Osteoarthritis Flashcards
Definition
Degenerative, inflammaotry process, causing progressive loss of hyaline cartilage
Pathogenesis
- Cartilage loss (on weight-bearing surfaces)
- Subchondral sclerosis
- Subchondral cysts
- Osteophytes
- Synovitis, capsulitis (fibrosis)
- Decreased range of motion
OA pathogenesis
- abnormal forces on the joint surface, due to?
angular limb deformities
OA pathogenesis
- Disturbance in cartilage development, due to?
- OCD
- Genetic predisposition
- feeding, management
Composition of hyaline cartilage
- Cells: Chondrocytes
- Extracellular matrix:
- water
- collagen type 2 (chondrocytes)
- GAGs
- Chondroitinsulphate
- Keratansulphate
- Hyaluronic acid chains
Composition of Joint Cartilage
Chondrocytes
- ECM synthesis
- Matrix degradation:
- Matric metalloproteinase (MMPS)
- Agrecanase
- Cathepsine
- IL-1, TNF
- Normal ECM: balance between production - reparation and degradation
Joint cartilage
- PSGAG role in OA
- Negative charge –> binding water
- chondrontil sulphate, keratan sulphate
- OA: PSGAG loss –> water-binding capacity decreases
Joint cartilage
- role of Hyaluronic acid
- produced by Typ B synoviocytes and chondrocytes
- basic element of cartilage
- water-binding capacity
- works agains tearing forces
- lubricant function together with water
Joint capsule
- role of Stratum fibrosum and Sratum synoviale
- Stratum fibrosum:
- Stability + serves for motion of the joint
- Stratum synoviale:
- Synovia production (filtrated plasma)
- HA, and collagen production
- Type A (phagocytosis), Type B (syntesis) cells
What are found in the joint capsule
- Stratum fibrosum
- Stratum synoviale
- Vessels and nerve fibers
- Nociceptors (even in subchondral level)
Clinical signs of OA
- Increased joint effusion
- lameness
- joint range of motion decrease
- changes in the synovia
- cartilage damage (osteoarthritis)
- newborn formaton (osteophytes)
Diagnosis of OA
- Lameness examination
- visualisation, palpation
- examination during motion
- provocating tests (flexion is painfull)
- perineural and intrasynovial anesthesia
- arthrocentesis, analysis of the synovia
- Diagnostic imaging
- X-rays
- UL
- Scintigraphy
- MRI
- Diagnostic arthroscopy
Diagnosis
- what can be seen on X-ray
- Periarticular osteophytes (pathognomic sign)
- Subchondral sclerosis
- Subchondral cystic lesions
- Narrowing joint space
OA
- Bone spavin
Bone spavin is osteoarthritis, or the final phase of degenerative joint disease (DJD), in the lower three hock joints. It usually affects the two lowest joints of the hock (the tarsometatarsal and the distal intertarsal joints), with the third joint, the proximal intertarsal, being the least likely to develop bone spavin. The condition is most commonly seen in teenage to elderly horses.
- DITJ: dist. intertarsal joint
- TMTJ: tarsometatarsal joint
OA: DITJ - TMTJ - Bone spavin
- pathogenesis
- Occurence: more often in adults
- recurance of compression and rotation
- conformational abnormalities:
- cow hocks
- too straight behind
- Metabolic causes:
- protein and mineral imbalance
- endocrine disorders