Exam 2 Flashcards

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osteoid

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bone matrix of type I collagen & ground substance (proteoglycans)
produces scaffolding/strength of bone

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2
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tension on bone results in…

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bone resorption

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3
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inactivity of bone results in…

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bone resorption

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4
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mechanical load & compression on bone results in…

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bone deposition

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5
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3 pathologies of infectious osteomyelitis

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trauma
local extension from adjacent infected site (e.g. lumpy jaw)
hematogenous (septic)

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6
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why are young livestock at increased risk of septicemia –> physitis or osteomyelitis

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decreased or failed passive transfer

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Common aerobic etiologies for infectious osteomyelitis

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Brucella
E. coli
Staph
Strep

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Common anaerobic etiologies for infectious osteomyelitis

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Salmonella (facultative)
Clostridium
Actinomyces

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Common fungal etiologies for infectious osteomyelitis

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Coccidioides immitis

Blastomyces dermatitidis

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lameness or paresis, recumbency

fever

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infectious osteomyelitis

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Sequestrum & involucrum

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trauma/hypoxia –> bone necrosis –> foreign body reaction, lytic/exudate pocket

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12
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2 pathologies of non-infectious osteomyelitis

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Panosteitis
Metaphyseal osteopathy (or hypertrophic osteodystrophy)
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13
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Signalment for panosteitis

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young (5-18 mo) large breed male dogs

German shep, goldens

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14
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Recurrent shifting leg lameness (pain on palpation) - self limiting
anorexia, mild lethargy, +/- fever

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Panosteitis

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15
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What lesions are caused by Panosteitis?

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medullary fibrosis & ossification (looks enlarged on rads), vascular congestion/edema

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Metaphyseal osteopathy (or hypertrophic osteodystrophy) causes what lesions

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  • metaphyseal (NOT physeal) vascular & trabecular necrosis
  • suppurative inflammation
  • metaphyseal & periosteal bone proliferation
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17
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Signalment for HOD

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younger (2-8 mo) large and giant breed dogs

Danes, Weimaraner’s, Boxers, German shep

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18
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Suspected causes of HOD

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idiopathic
Diet - excess Ca, vitamins, calories, hypovitaminosis C
Genetic
Infectious - canine distemper vacc, E. coli sepsis

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19
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Severe, progressive lameness
lethargy, anorexia, fever
swollen painful metaphyses of distal radius, ulna, tibia

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HOD

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20
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Pathognomonic sign of HOD

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“double physis” on rad - reactive fare trying to stabilize metaphysis

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21
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What causes metabolic bone disease

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calcium phosphorus imbalance

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22
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4 types of metabolic bone disease (all d/t Ca/P imbalance)

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Osteoporosis
Osteomalacia
Rickets
Fibrous osteodystrophy

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23
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What is osteoporosis?

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  • Not enough normal bone
  • decreased production of normal bone or excess bone removal
  • reversible
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24
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Causes of osteoporosis

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  • physical inactivity, disuse atrophy
  • starvation (Ca deficiency = increased PTH)
  • decreased estrogen
  • glucocorticoids
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25
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Pathological fracture, bone deformities

Cortical thining, increased porosity of bone

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oseoporosis

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26
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What is osteomalacia

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defective mineralization of osteoid/cartilage - can lay down Ca & P on osteoid

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What causes osteomalacia

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vit d deficiency (decreased Ca, P absorption)
Phosphorus deficiency (or Ca or both)
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28
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Pathological fractures, bone deformities
Extensive matrix of non-mineralized osteoid
cortical and trabecular thinning (soft bone)

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osteomalacia

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29
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What is rickets

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defective mineralization of osteoid specifically in the physis (how differs from osteomalacia)
happens in juveniles only

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30
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Causes of rickets

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Vit D (rarely hereditary) or P deficiency
Ca deficiency or excess (uncommon)
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31
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2 types of hereditary vit D deficiency

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type I - enz deficiency (makes active form of vit D)

type II - vit D receptor defect

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32
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thick, wide irregular physes, metaphyseal flare, enlarged joints, valgus/varus deformities, rachitic rosary

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rickets

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33
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Fibrous osteodystrophy

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juveniles, rarely adults

High PTH –> excess Ca release from bone –> replacement fibrosis - soft spongy bones

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34
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Causes of fibrous osteodystrophy

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Primary hyperparathyroidism (rare)
Secondary " " (renal dz or nutritional issue)
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35
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How does renal dz cause secondary hyperparathyroidism (thus, fibrous osteodystrophy)

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Decreased excretion of P = high P, low Ca = increased PTH secretion = more Ca mobilized from bone

36
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How does nutrition cause secondary hyperparathyroidism (thus, fibrous osteodystrophy)

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high P, low Ca, low Vit D = increased PTH secretion = more Ca mobilized from bone
e.g. carn on meat diet, Pig/EQ on grain/bran diets, lack of UVB in reptiles

37
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lameness, pathological fracture
“rubber jaw” or twisted maxilla
swollen metaphyses (but physis normal) valgus/varus deformities

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fibrous osteodystrophy

38
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Osteochondrodysplasia

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abnormal endochondrial ossification –> defective cartilage development –> (disproportionate) dwarf stature or uncontrolled growth

39
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What causes osteochondrodysplasia

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spontaneous or heritable of mutation FGFR3

40
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Osteopetrosis/Stone bone

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osteoclast deficiency/dysfunc –> excess trabecular bone, failed osteoclastic remodeling –> cavity filled w/ cancellous bone, not spongy bone & marrow

41
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Causes of osteopetrosis

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spontaneous congenital defect
hereditary - angus, paso fino
infectious: BVDV, FeLV, CDV

42
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lameness, neuro disease d/t flattened calvarium, tongue hangs out, pathological fracture & deformities, pancytopenia

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osteopetrosis

43
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Osteogenesis imperfecta/Brittle bone dz

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multiple genetic disorders –> failure to produce & cross link type I collagen, decreased osteonectin –> bone deformities
Calves, lambs, puppies

44
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bone fractures/deformities, tendon & ligament ruptures, weak enamel & sclera

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osteogenesis imperfecta

45
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Hypertrophic osteopathy pathogenesis

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Suspect vagal stimulation –> increased perfusion to periosteum –> blood pools –> peripheral hypoxia/reaction –> periosteal woven bone hypertrophy (just cortex)

46
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What is hypertrophic osteopathy comonly associated with?

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Thoracic mass
Heartworm dz
Endocarditis
NEoplasia - urinary rhabdomyosarcoma, EQ ovarian tumors

47
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Swollen but firm (not edematous) limbs, lameness

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Hypertrophic osteopathy

48
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Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head / Legg-Calve’-Perthes Dz pathogenesis

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Loss of perfusion –> ischemic necrosis of femoral head –> subchondral bone collapse & fibrosis –> progressive hip joint pain

49
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Who gets Aseptic necrosis of the femoral head

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young (4-12 mo) small terriers like yorkies, jack russels

50
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What is the most common primary bone tumor in domestics?

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Osteosarcoma

51
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Osteosarcoma

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malignant mesenchymal tumor of osteoblasts

produces osteoid

52
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Risk factors for osteosarcoma

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Size – dogs >80 lb (St. Bernards, Danes, German shep)

Age – dogs > 7.5 yrs, cats >10/5 yrs

53
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Osteosarcoma locations

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Dog - away from elbow, toward knee

Uncommonly cat anywhere, Rum/EQ flatbones of skull

54
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Osteosarcoma behavior

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Osteolytic - destroys cortical bone, stimulates reactive woven bone & inflamm around site
Highly invasive but doesn’t cross joints/articular surfaces
often metastasizes to lungs early

55
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Chrondrosarcoma

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malignant tumor of cartilage, usually affecting flat bones (nasal cavity), appendicular, joints, soft tissue

56
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Chrondrosarcoma behavior

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osteolytic, invasive/space occupying

develops slower, metastasizes later (better for treatment)

57
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Fibrosarcoma

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primary malignant tumor of fibroblasts
Often in periosteum/medulla of any flat/long bone
space occupying, lytic, destructive

58
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Osteoma

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benign tumor of osteoblasts/cytes
Affects cortex, usually on flat bones, distal limbs
Rostral mandible in juv rum/EQ - eating issue

59
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Multilobular osteochondrosarcoma (MLO)

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benign or malignant tumor of organized cartilage, bone and fibrocytes
space occupying - often calvarium/flat bones
see neuro dz or difficulty eating

60
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What is hyaline/articular cartilage composed of?

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type II collagen
chrondrocytes
proteoglycans
water

61
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How does hyaline cartilage get it’s nutrition & oxygen supply?

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subchondral bone

synovial fluid

62
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How does articular cartilage respond to injury?

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poor healing capacity
superficial lesion = no healing, no progression
deep lesions = granulation, fibrocartilage
Fibrillation, eburnation

63
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Fibrillation

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cartilage condenses/clumps, starts to fray

64
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Eburnation

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subchondral bone exposed through cartilage

65
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How does synovium respond to injury?

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inflammation
villous hyperplasia of synoviocytes
Pannus (fibroplasia over areas of eburnation)

66
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How does synovial fluid respond to injury?

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fluid volume increases
Viscosity changes (increased = fibrin, Ig presence, decreased = hyaluronic acid & proteoglucan loss)
67
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Periarticular lesions you may see with joint injury

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Osteophytes
Enthesophytes
Joint mice

68
Q

What causes degenerative joint disease (thus, osteoarthritis)

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chronic instability
abnormal/altered cartilage
abnormal/altered subchondral bone

69
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Mechanisms that cause infectious OA

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  • direct inoculation of joint

- hematogenous/septic spread

70
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Causes of hematogenous spread –> OA

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failure of passive transfer

Mycoplasma bovis or hyosynoviae, Strep, Staph, E.coli

71
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Immune-mediated polyarthritis (IMPA)

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Type III hypersensitivity –> chronic joint inflamm, arthritis
Idiopathic, hereditary, secondary (SLE, rhematoid, neoplasia)

72
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Who is prone to IMPA

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dogs - Akitas, beagles, boxers

73
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fever, lethargy, anorexia
joint swelling, shifting leg lameness, stilted painful gait
+/- back or neck pain

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IMPA

74
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Osteochondrosis pathogenesis

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Failed endochondrial ossification of the epiphysis –> unmineralized epiphyseal cartilage –> focal areas of abnormal thickening of cartilage

75
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What can osteochondrosis progress to?

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Osteochondrosis dessicans
thick cartilage –> hypoxia –> necrosis & fragmentation of cartilage –> subchondral bone exposed, weakened –> subchondral cyst –> cavitating defect

76
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Risk factors for osteochondrosis

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genetics - rapid growers
nutrition - high calories, Ca, protein, vitamins/minerals or low Cu
Management - mechanical stress, exercise etc.

77
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Who commonly gets osteochondrosis

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pigs, chickens, large breed dogs, warmbloods, throughbreds

78
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Common sites of osteochondrosis

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main appendicular joints: stifle, shoulder, fetlock, tarsus

79
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Lamenss, pain, decreased performance, decreased weight gain

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osteochondrosis

80
Q

Who is especially prone to subchondral bone cysts & fractures

A

horses

81
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Synovial sarcoma

A

malignant neoplasm of synovial cells
large breed middle age dogs
often stifle or weight bearing appendicular joints
highly invasive into surrounding area (unlike osteosarcomas), many metastasize to lungs
amputate

82
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Periarticular histiocytic sarcoma

A

malignany neosplasm of synovial DC’s
large breed middle age dogs - bernese mountain dogs
invasive into soft tissue, osteolytic
majority matastasize & early

83
Q

Job of intervertebral disks

A

unite vertebrae
limit movement at intervertebral joint
distribute mechanical forces

84
Q

Job of nucleus pulposus

A

absorb shock, help w/ felxibility

85
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Job of annulus fibrosus

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handles compression, equalizes load

86
Q

Job of intercaptial ligaments

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stabilize ribs, vertebrae

Only exists between T2-T10, not cervical or lumbar regions (need more flexibility)