LEC 12 - GI III Flashcards
Describe: Bloat
Distention of the rumen by gas accuumulation
What is another name for bloat?
Ruminal Tympany
What is the cause of primary bloat?
Legume/dietary/frothy bloat
Formation of stable foam when fed certain feeds
What foods cause primary bloat?
Alfalfa
Ladino clover
Grain concentrates
What causes secondary bloat?
Physical or functional obstruction or stenosis
How does bloat manifest?
Distended left paralumbar fossas
Compresses the diaphragm
Increases intraabdominal + intrathoracic pressure
What does the intrathoracic pressure lead to in bloat?
Decrease in venous return to the heart
Generalized congestion cranial to thoracic inlet
What is a bloat line?
Sharp demarcation between caudal + crainal mucosa of esophagus
What causes the bloat line?
Compromised venous return
Leads to grossly distended rumen which displaces the diaphragm cranially
Term: Hari balls
Trichobezors
Term: Phytobezors
Plant balls
What causes phytobezoars?
Indigestable roughage
What occurs in rumenants when nails or wires are ingested?
Perforation of reticulaum
Leads to reticulitis + peritonitis
– sometimes pericarditis
What disease occurs with nail/wire ingestion?
Hardware disease
What can occur with battery ingestion?
Lead poisoning
What is seen grossly with traumatic reticulitis?
perforated walls of reticulum
tend to lodge in tunica muscularis
Wire will be surrounded by sinus tract draining to surface reticulum
Chronic ulcer will form
What causes rumenitits?
Lactic acidosis
What causes lactic acidosis in ruminants?
Grain overload
Sudden diet change to easily fermentable/carb feed
OR
Change in fee volume
What is the pathogenesis of lactic acidosis?
Change in feed
Promotion of Gram (+) bacteria
Produce lactic acid
Low pH in rumen
Acidic pH eliminates normal flora + damage mucosa
What is the normal ruminal pH?
5.5 to 7.5
What is the cause of death in rumenitis?
Dehydration > Increased osmotic effect
Acidosis + Circulatory collapse
What is seen grossly with rumenitis?
Abundant grain in ruminal contents
Watery contents
Multifocal scars = previous episodes
What are the histological lesions seen with rumenitis?
Coagulative necrosis of ruminal epi.
Neutrophilic inflammation
Widespread mucosal ulceration
What are the bacterial causes of rumenitis?
Trueperella pyogenes
Fusobacterium necrophorum
What can bacterial rumenitits lead to?
Will colonize damaged ruminal wall
Transported to liver via portal ciruclation
What are the common fungus related to rumenitis?
Aspergillus
Mucor
Rhizopus
Abisdia
Mortierella
What causes fungus to create rumenitis?
Antibiotic treatments
What is seen grossly with mycotic rumenitis?
Numerous well-demarcated red foci of necrosis + hemorrhage
What causes vagal indigestion?
Damage to the vagus nerve
Function outflow problem from the forestomach
Vagal indigestion: Type I
Caused by inflammatory lesions around the nerve
Vagal indigestion: Type II
Functional or Anatomical condition
Results in failure of omasal transport into abomasum
Vagal indigestion: Type III
Phyiscal impaction of abomasum
Vagal indigestion: Type IV
Pregnancy related
Shifting position of abomasum
Compression of abdominal branches of the nerve