Hystricomorph Disease

Question 1

Gastrointestinal hypomotility syndrome

Answer 1

Slowed or stopped GI motility triggered by disease, stress, pain or combo. Always an emergency

Question 2

Signs of GI hypomotility

Answer 2

-Dehydration
-Abdominal distension, gastric tympany
-Hunched posture, abdominal tenderness
-Bruxism
-Reduced number or size of fecal pellets

Question 3

Diagnostics of GI hypomotility

Answer 3

Depends on underlying cause
-CBC: inflammatory leukogram
-Chem: organ changes
-Uranalysis: ketonuria, crystalluria
May be no abnormalities
-Radiographs
-Ultrasound

Question 4

Treatment of GI hypomotility

Answer 4

-Fluids
-Analgesia
-Nutritional support
-Treat underlying cause
-Exercise

Question 5

What antibiotics do you not want to use

Answer 5

Oral: Penicillin, lincomycin, ampicillin/amoxicillin, Clindamycin/cephalosporin, erythromycin

Question 6

Antibiotic associated enterotoxemia signs

Answer 6

Diarrhea
Dehydration
Anorexia
Death

Question 7

Treatment of Antibiotic associated enterotoxemia

Answer 7

-Antibiotics based on culture
-Choestryamine
-Supportive care, fluids, thermal support

Question 8

Antibiotics you can use

Answer 8

-Enrofloxacin (FQ)
-TMS
-Chloramphenicol
-Azithromycin

Question 9

Presentation of GDV radiograph

Answer 9

See gas distended stomach and the intestines are often cranial to the stomach

Question 10

Prognosis of GDV

Answer 10

VERY bad
Not good surgical candidates

Question 11

Ovarian cysts

Answer 11

-Typically bilateral or on the right
-Spontaneous during estrous cycle
-Can be non function (most common) or function

Question 12

Ovarian cyst signs

Answer 12

-Abdominal distension
-Anorexia, weakness, lethargy, pain
-Functional-> bilateral symmetric hair loss in flank

Question 13

Treatment of ovarian cysts

Answer 13

-Percutaneous drainage
-hCG for functional
-OHE high risk
-Spay at an early age is best

Question 14

Predisposing factor for dystocia

Answer 14

-Bred after 6mo
-Obesity, uterine inertia from suboptimal nutrition
-Precocial young

Question 15

Main type of urolithiasis

Answer 15

Calcium carbonate typically in ureters, bladder, or urethra

Question 16

Clinical signs of urolithiasis

Answer 16

-Hematuria
-Stranguria
-Pollakiuria
-Dysuria
-Lethargy
-Reluctance to move
-Anorexia
-Weight loss
-Hunched

Question 17

Common UTI bacteria

Answer 17

Corynebacterium

Question 18

Treatment of urolithiasis

Answer 18

Usually unrewarding because genetic component
Often when you remove by the time they heal they have formed another one
Sometimes they stick to the wall

Question 19

Signs of GP ectoparasites

Answer 19

Sometimes looks like they are having a seizure because they are so itchy

Question 20

Trichofolliculoma

Answer 20

Benign tumor usually over dorsal lumbosacral area
Do FNA and cytology
Most common in males

Question 21

Treatment of trichofolliculoma

Answer 21

Surgery
Can lance before surgery to make smaller

Question 22

Differentials for masses in cervical area

Answer 22

Cervical lymphadenitis
Lymphoma

Question 23

Cervical lymphadenitis

Answer 23

Strep equi zooepidemicus
Get in from oral abrasion that gets into deeper tissues and into lymph nodes

Question 24

Sequela of osteoarthritis

Answer 24

Pododermatitis