Lecture 19 and 20 Flashcards
How is inflammation in the liver classified
- Distribution
- Atomical area affected
- Typer of inflammatory cells
- Duration
- Severity
- Causative agent
What is non-specific teactive hepatitis
- Often diffuse throughout liver around portal tracts
- Response to systemic illness
- GIT disturbances/infections
- Redidual prior hepatic health
- Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis
- Often an incidentalding

Non-specific reactive hepatitis
What is seen with Canine chrinic hepatitis
- Cause often undetermined
- Hereditary copper toxicosis and hepatitis
- Other familial chronic hepatitis
- Liver is often small/shrunken/nodualr
- Inflammatin and fibrosis
- Intrahepatic cholestasis

Canine chronic active hepatitis

Canine chrinic active hepatitis
Whats is cholangitis
Inflammation limited to the biliary ducts in portal area
What is cholangiohepatitis
Inflammation centred on ducts but has spilled out and involves the periportal area

Suppurative cholangitis

Feline lymphocytic cholangitis

Feline Lymphocytic Cholangiohepatitis

Chronic Cholangitis
What causes bacteraemia, septicaemia
Bacterial nfections that have sustained or repeated bacteraemic phace foften produce liver lesions
What can septicaemia produce
- Multifocal necrosis and inflammation or small aggregations of inflammatory cells
How do infections of the portal vein occur
Some enteric bacteria may enter the portal blood stream and gain entry to the liver
- In liver bacteria may be phagotosed by Kupffer cells
- Such bacteria may proliferate in the liver and cause local lesions or bacteraemic phase

Haematogenous infectious agents often cause multifocal random hepatic necrosis
How does CAV1 spread
Oral route
What does CAV1 target
Endothelial cells, hepatocytesm renal epithelium
- Enarged liver with fibrin surface
- Acute hepatic nectosis and inflammation
- Widespread petechial haemorrhages
- Excessperitoneal fluid

Infectious canine hepatitis

Infectious canine hepatitis: necrosis and intranuclear viral inclusion bodies
Where is herpes virus common
Foetuses and neonates

Equine herpesvir1
Hepatitis/hepatic necrosis in foal
What is Theiler’s disease
- Equine serum hepatitis
- Sporadic form of acute liver failure and death in horses
- Many occur in horses that have recieved injection of agent containing equine serum
Clinical signs and pathology of Theiler’s disease
- Hepatoencephalopathy
- Janundice and dark urine
- Flabby ‘ dishrag’ liver
- Secere periaciner and midzonal hepatocellular necrosis and harmorrhage

Equine serum hepatitis
What are some bacterial diseases of the liver
- Liver abscessesand granulomas
- Clostridial diseases
- Leptospirosis
- secondary to bacteraemia/septicaemia

Liver abscess: fusobacterium necrophorum

Chronic hepatic abscess in a sheep: corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis

Hepatic abscesses: Rhodococcus equi

Hepatic Abscess

Hepatic abscess: caudal vena cava

Multiple caseous granulomas: tuberculosis: mycobacterium
What is the other name for Clostridial hepatitis and what bacteria causes it
Black disease
Clostridium noviyi
How does costridium novyi cause clostridial hepatitis
- Dormant spored germinatein necrotic or low oxygen areas in liver
- Toxins cause foci of hepatocellular necrosis
- Liver
- Effusion in body cavities
- Rapid putrefaction of carcass

Black disease
What is Bacillary Haemoglobinuria
- Common in regions of Fasciola hepatica flukes
- Causes by clostridium haemolyticum
- Spores generate when there is low oxygen
- Bacteria release toxins - phospholipase C
- Induces hepatic necosis
- Intravascular haemolysis
What causes Tyzzer’s disease
Clostridium piliforme
- Oral infection -> GIT -> portal circulation -> liver

Tyzzer’s disease

Tyzzer’s disease
Where is leptospirosis shed
Shed in urine
What are the gross lesions of leptospirosis
- Icterus
- Hepatic haemorrhage
- Ascites
What are the histological lesions of leptospirosis
- Centrolobular necrosis
- Bile plug in canaliculi
- Also interstitialephritis

Salmonellosis

Ovine campylobacteriosis: foetal liver

Chicken spotty liver disease

Mycotic hepatitis: multiple necrotic foci: disseminated fungal infection: Mucor spp
What are nematodes a massive problem for the liver
They migrate throgh it causing abscesses, granulomas, chronic hepatitis

Capsulat and portal fibosis: ascaris suum larval migration

Dirofilarisis: vena caval syndrome: caudalvena cava
What do cestodes cause
Cysts in liver of intermediate host

Cestodes

Echinococcus granulosis in sheep ‘Hydatid cysts)
Where do mature flukes live
Bile duct -cuase cholangitis
Where do immature flukes live
Immature flukes migrate in liver causing haemorrhagic, necrotic tracts

Facioliasis: fasciola hepatica

Fascioloides magna
What do flagellate cause
Necrotic hepatitis in birds

Hepatic coccidiosis - rabbit