Exam 1 Flashcards
What is anasarca?
Generalized edema with profuse accumulation of fluid w/in the subcutaneous tissue
What is general pathology
Major pathological processes in incited by various injurious stimuli. Applies is all cells/tissues/organs.
What distribution is the image displaying
Locally Extensive
Define clinical manifestations
clinical signs resulting from functional abnormalities of affected tissues
What is the clinical significance of edema
- Depends on: extent, location, duration
- Tissue may become firm and distorted due to an increase in fibrous CT after prolonged edema
What is this image showing?
Venous infarction, small intestinal volvulus. Note the intensely congested loops of small intestine undergoing early venous infarction. The twisting of the mesentery associated with the volvulus has resulted compression of the arteries and veins of the intestine.
What is livor mortis (aka hypostatic congestion)
Gravity pulling blood post death. -variation in color of tissues, skin, lungs and kidneys. -in some areas the tissues will be more red, in other areas pale
What is hydrothorax
Fluid in the thoracic cavity
Define Diffuse
Throughout a large portion of the effected tissue
What is antithrombin III
a major inhibitor of thrombin
Pulmonary edema- non-inflammatory is associated with what?
Associated to left-sided congestive heart failure (CHF)
What is the outcome of thrombi
- Lysis
- Propagation
- Embolization
- Organization/recanalization
What is most associated with chronic pulmonary edema, what happens?
- Most commonly associated with cardiac failure
- Alveolar walls become thickened -> may lead to fibrosis
- Congestion, micro-hemorrhages -> accumulation of heart failure cells.
What is the difference between hyperemia and congestion
Hyperemia indicates increase of arteriole-mediated engorgement of the vascular bed. Blood is oxygenated (red)
Congestion indicates passive, venous engorgement. Blood is not oxygenated (blue)
What are some associated changes when an animal has bloat
Rectal/vaginal prolapse, froth in trachea, ruptured viscera
What does the rate of decomposition depend on
-Cause of death -Environmental and body temp -Microbial flora (GI tract, Bacterial fermentation -> heat/gas)
Define focal
one isolated lesion
What is vascular enodthelium’s role in hemostasis
- Anti-thrombotic and pro-fibrinolytic in the normal state
- Pro-thrombotic and anti-fibrinolytic during injury
Define Edema
- Abnormal accumulation of excess extracellular water in interstitial spaces or in body cavities.
- Fluid is outside both the vascular fluid compartment and cellular fluid compartment. (i.e.: w/in the interstitium)
What causes tissue edema?
If there is an increase in hydrostatic pressure or diminished plasma osmotic pressure will cause extravascular fluid to accumulate. Tissue lymphatics will remove the excess volume, eventually returning it to the circulation via the thoracic duct. However, if the capacity for lymphatic drainage is exceeded then tissue edema results.
What is an embolism
Embolism is the passage through the venous or arterial circulation of any material capable of lodging in a blood vessel lumen.
Describe a post mortem clot
-unattached, shiny/wet, elastic, perfect cast of vessel lumen.
What organs are very susceptible to tissue hypoxia
Brain and tissue
In agonal hemorrhages what is petechiae and ecchymoses associated with?
Terminal hypoxia
Pulmonary edema inflammatory edema is associated with what
Damage to pulmonary capillary endothelium -> e.g. pulmonary
ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) : Sudden, diffuse, and direct- increase in vascular permeability: high fatality rate -> followed by pneumonia is animal survives
What is cardiac hypertrophy
Limit beyond which enlargement of muscle mass is no longer able to cope with the increased burden-> several regressive changes occur in the myocardial fibers (eg. lysis and loss of myofibrillar contractile elements)
What is the medium that all metabolic prodcuts must pass between the microcirculation and the cells
Interstitium
What is this image displaying?
“Chicken fat clot” from a horse; due to separation of RBCs and clotted serum. - PM Blood Clotting
What is Virchow triad
Virchow triad = pathogenesis of thrombosis
- endothelial injury
- Alterations in blood flow (turbulence or stasis)
- Hypercoagulability: Increase in coagulation factors (or increase sensitivity), decrease in coagulation inhibitors
Define etiology
The cause
What can well vs poorly demarcated margins tell you?
Well demarcated = the lesion represents a different tissue (tumors), Infarcts, chronic lesion with fibrous capsule.
Poorly demarcated = the lesion and adjacent tissue may be similar. The process is gradually infiltrating into the normal tissue; is poorly contained
What is disease name? (define)
Aims to encapsulate the host, morphology, and cause of disease; ex: Bovine Viral Disease
What is the image showing and what is happening
Chronic hepatic congestion: nutmeg liver
Chronically there is low-grade hypoxia and increase pressure of centrolobular hepatocytes leading to atrophy and necrosis
Explain the following image
Diffuse brown discoloration of the lungs of a dog with chronic pulmonary edema and congestion secondary to left-sided CHF.
Define hemorrhage
the escape of blood from the blood vessels (extravasation)
-can be internal or external (w/in tissues or body cavities
What is post mortem blood clotting
Occurs several hrs. Post death in the heart and vessels. Coagulopathies can delay or cause failure of blood to clot. Chicken fat clot appearance: due to separation of RBCs and clotted serum.
Regardless of the underlying pathology, shock gives rise to what? and what causes it
Systemic Hypoperfusion - it can be caused either by reduced cardiac output or by reduced effective circulating blood volume.
What are features of a description
(near shore lobsters dig starfish clams coral and molluks)
Number, Size, Location, Distribution, Shape, Color, Consistency, Margins/suface
Is the image a PM clot or AM clot?
PM Clot
Unattached, shiny/wet, elastic, perfect cast of vessel lumen
What distribution is the image displaying
Multifocal-coalescing
What are the 3 types of shock
- Cardiogenic shock- failure of the heart to maintain normal cardiac output
- Hypovolemic shock- fluid loss due to hemorrhage, vomiting and diarrhea
- Blood Maldistribution: Anaphylactic (type I hypersensitivty), Neurogenic, Septic
What can distribution tell you?
multifocal?
Locally extensive?
Symmetrical?
Multifocal = embolic/hematogenous route
Locally extensive = local introduction via penetrating wound or anatomic pathway
Symmetrical = indicates systemic/metabolic cause of the lesion
What distribution is the image displaying
Diffuse
Define Multifocal
Numerous similar lesions that can be of variable size
True or False - determining the pathological process facilitates determining the etiology
True
What distribution is the image displaying ?
Multifocal
What is this histological slide showing?
Edema
- Clear or pale eosinophilic staining depending on whether is non-inflammed or inflammatory edema
- Spaces are distended
- Blood vessels may be filled with RBCs
- Lymphatics are dilated
- Collagen bundles are separated
What is pericardial effusion?
Means fluid around the heart. Image shows “mulberry heart disease” (inflammatory edema). Note the fibrin strands and cloudy appearance of the pericardial fluid
Define pathogenesis
sequence of events from initial stimulus to ultimate expression of disease
What is infarction?
Venous Infarcts?
Localized area of ischemic necrosis in a tissue or organ caused by occlusion of either the arterial supply or the venous drainage.
-Venous infarcts are usually intensely hemorrhagic as blood backs up into the affected tissue behind the obstruction
What is suffusive hemorrhage
Larger than ecchymosis and contiguous.
Explain the pathogenesis of septic shock
caused by endotoxin-producing gram-negative bacilli (endotoxic shock). LPS and other microbial substances induce injury and activation of the vascular endothelium plus stimulate (“active”) WBCs to release cytokines -> vasodilation and pro-thromotic diathesis (DIC)