Exam 2 Flashcards
What size probe would you use for transrectal or transvaginal ultrasound?
5
What size would you use for placenta vs fetus?
7.5
3
How can we detect pregnancy in the bovine?
-21 days without estrous cycle, ultrasound, rectal palpation, biosassay markers (PAG) and hormones (ES and P4)
What can we paplpate in the bovine to detect pregnancy?
-placentomes, fetus, chorioallantoic slip, and amniotic vessicle
How can we detect pregnancy in the small ruminants?
-21 day without estrous in goat, 17 in ewe
ballotment
ultrasound
How can detect pregnancy in the sow?
17-24 days without estrous, best detected with presence of boar
-ultra sound (18-19 days post breeding, 25-32 day proper embryo
How can we detect pregnancy in the camelid?
-spitting off, ballotment, ultrasound after day 12
How can we detect pregnancy in the mare?
-rectal palpation -> uterus over the pelvic rim, can feel the fetus by 7 months
urine estrogen -> cuboni test
rectum ultrasound -> should be done by day 14
Uterine swellings in mare’s rectal palpatation
golf ball, softball, flutuant swelling, football, basketball,
28 days, 35, 45, 60, 90
When can we feel the string of pearls in small animals?
when can we radiograph?
when can we ultrasound?
what can we detect in canines only?
21-28 days
-safe after day 40, best done in last week due to calcification
-day 22 and on
-relaxin
What is the yolk sac connected to?
What is the allantois connected to?
mid gut
hind gut
What are within the umbilical cord?
-urachus, two umbilical arteries, one umbilical vein, allantoic stalk, yolk stalk, and whartons jellys
Omphacele bs gastroischisis?
omphalocele -> a GIT defect where it fails to retract into the abdomen after the phsyiologic hernia
Gastroischisis-> a body wall defect where the lateral fold fails to fuse
Allantoic fluid
Amniotic fluid
appears more urine-like in mid gestation as the developing kidneys form urine -> to the allantois
becomes more colorless and mucoid late gestation
Compare the uterus of the cow vs the horse
cow -> short body and two horns. Cervix has interdigitating folds
horse -> long body and two short horns. Cervix has long mucosal folds
What is the most common ovarian tumors of mares?
-granulosa cell tumor
You are on a clinical case and you decide to do ultrasound on a mare. One ovary is large while the other is smaller. What do you think could this be?
-granulosa cell tumors
What are the benign ovarian tumors? What are malignant?
-cystadenoma and terratoma
-dysgermoma
What are possible risks for Anovulatory follicles?
-uterine inflammation
-prostaglandins on day 9-11
NSAID use around time of ovulation
-use of Hcg
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What is a common cause of infertility in mares?
endometritis
What is one of the most common infectious bacteria that can cause endometritis?
strep zoo epidemicus
You are doing ultrasound on a mare and think you see an embryo, but the mare has had trouble with infertility. What could be a differential
cyst
What is a reportalbe bacterial venereal disease?
contagious equine metritis
Difference between estrogen and progesterone and their affects on bacteria?
progesterone ->predisposes to infection