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Lymphoid and Myeloid Flashcards

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Myeloid

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Anything to do with the bone marrow and the cells it produces

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Which cells are myeloid?

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Granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, mast cells)
Monocytes
Macrophages
Erythrocytes
Thrombocytes
Dendritic cells

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Which cells are lymphoid?

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Lymphocytes

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Which tissues are lymphoid?

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Lymph nodes
Thymus
Spleen
Peyer’s patches

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What hormone is associated with physiological leucocytosis (‘fight/flight’)?

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Epinephrine

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What hormone is associated with physiological stress (‘stress leukogram’)?

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Corticosteroid

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What is different about a stress leukogram in hypoadrenocorticism/Addisonian crisis?

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Insufficient cortisol being produced to stimulate a stress leukogram

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In which ways is the myeloid/lymphoid system stimulated?

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Epinephrine
Corticosteroid
Iatrogenic antigenic stimulation (vaccine)
Inflammation
Infection
Parasites/foreign bodies

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Lymph node enlarges as part of immune response to lymphatic drainage from affected site

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Reactive hyperplasia

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Infection or inflammation of the lymph node

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Lymphadenitis

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Non-neoplastic lymphadenopathy pathophysiology (2)

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Reactive hyperplasia
Lymphadenitis

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Investigating a lymphadenopathy

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History (infection/inflammation/medication)
Physical exam (LN enlargement)
Imaging?
FNA?

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What is chyle?

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Mixture of lymph and chylomicrons

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What are chylomicrons?

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Lipids absorbed from intestine and transported via lymphatics

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What are the causes of chylous effusions?

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Rupture (trauma)
Obstruction of thoracic duct or other major lymphatic vessel (neoplasia)
Often idiopathic

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How does chylothorax usually present?

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Bilateral pleural effusion

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Management of chylothorax

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Thoracocentesis (therapeutic and diagnostic)
Surgical closure of thoracic duct?

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Lymphangiectasia pathophysiology

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Intestinal lymphatics dilate, chyle lost in lumen (protein losing enteropathy)

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Causes of lymphangiectasia

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Idiopathic
Congenital
Acquired obstruction (neoplasia)

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Is lymphangiectasia more common in dogs or cats?

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Dogs

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Management of lymphangiectasia

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Low fat diet
+/- Immunosuppressives (prednisolone)

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Diagnosis for lymphangiectasia

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History (GI signs)
Physical exam (low BCS, ascites)
Biochemistry (hypoalbuminaemia/hypocholesterolaemia)
Haematology (lymphopaenia very suspect, not always seen)
Ultrasound (hyperechoic lacteals)
Biopsy (endoscopic or surgical)

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What is seen in endoscopic biopsy of lymphangiectasia?

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White bumps in lumen where lacteal ducts have dilated

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Risk of surgical biopsy in lymphangiectasia

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Low albumin associated with wound dehiscence

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Risk of surgical biopsy in lymphangiectasia

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Low albumin associated with wound dehiscence

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Aplastic anaemia

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Failure of myeloid cell production

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In what order do cell lines become depleted in aplastic anaemia?

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Neutropaenia, then thrombocytopaenia, then anaemia

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Aplastic anaemia is usually secondary to…

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Toxicity
Adverse drug reaction
Infection (Ehrlichia, parvo, FLV)

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Pure red cell aplasia

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Failure of erythrocyte production
Rare, may be secondary to FeLV

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How do bone marrow infiltrates cause non-neoplastic myeloid disease? (Rare)

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Myelofibrosis
Gelatinous transformation

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Myeloid cell neoplasias

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Mast cell tumour
Histiocytoma
Transmissible venereal tumour

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Myeloid leukaemia key features

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Rare
Acute: immature cells
Chronic: differentiated cells

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What is polycythaemia vera?

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Chronic form of myeloid leukaemia where excess erythrocytes are produced by the bone marrow

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33
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Where is the visceral form of mast cell tumour found in cats?

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Spleen
Lymph nodes
Liver

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Histiocytoma key features

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Common
Young dogs (<2y)
usually benign
Can regress over several weeks

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What can a histiocytoma look like?

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Mast cell tumour

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What tumour would you suspect with this presentation?

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Transmissible venereal tumour

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Treatment for transmissible venereal tumour

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Chemotherapy (e.g. vinchristine)

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What tumour is likely to be associated with this cytological finding?

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Mast cell tumour

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Lymphoid neoplasias

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Lymphoid leukaemia
Plasmocytoma
Lymphoma

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Lymphoid leukaemia key features

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Rare
T/B/natural killer cells
Acute or chronic

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Is plasmacytoma malignant or benign?

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Benign

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Does B or T cell lymphoma respond better to therapy?

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B (remember B = better)

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What structure does a T-zone indolent lymphoma usually affect?

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Submandibular lymph node

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What are the problems with treatment of a T-zone indolent lymphoma?

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Low Ki67 index
Surgical removal of lymph node may be attempted

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Rare cutaneous form of lymphoma

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Epitheliotropic

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Reasons for WBC number/morphology change in blood

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Infection
Stress related (inflammation/endocrine)
Lymphoid/myeloid neoplasia

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Where are neutrophils produced?

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Bone marrow
(Occasionally extramedullary haematopoiesis: spleen/liver etc.)

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What are the stages of immature to mature neutrophils?

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Myeloblast
Progranulocyte
Myelocyte
Metamyelocyte
Band
Segmented

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Which neutrophils stages are proliferating and maturing?

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Myeloblast
Pyogranulocyte
Myelocyte

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Which neutrophil stages are just maturing and may be found in blood?

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Metamyelocyte
Band
Segmented

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Stages required for a cell to leave blood vessels

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Marginalisation
Adhesion
Migration

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Factors which cause cells to shift from marginal to circulating pool

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Epinephrine
Glucocorticoids
Infection
Stress

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What happens when cells shift from marginal to circulating pool?

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Apparent increase in circulating volume without increase in production

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How do cells become marginalised?

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Binding selectin receptors on blood vessels to ligands on cell walls

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Causes of neutrophilia

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Inflammation (infection/immune mediated anaemia/necrosis)
Steroids (stress/therapy/HAC)
Physiological (epinephrine/excitement/fear)
Chronic neutrophil leukaemia
Paraneoplastic
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency

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If there are more segmented neutrophils than immature and neutrophil numbers are increased then is the left shift regenerative or degenerative?

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Regenerative

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If there are more immature neutrophils than segmented and neutrophil numbers are increased/decreased/normal then is the left shift regenerative or degenerative?

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Degenerative

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What happens in a right shift?

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Glucocorticoids down-regulate adhesion molecules, less neutrophils leave circulation

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Common causes of neutropaenia

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Inflammation (per-acute/overwhelming bacterial infections, parvo)
Decreased production (infections, toxicity, neoplasia, marrow necrosis, myelofibrosis)

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Rare causes of neutropaenia

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Immune mediated
Chediak-Higashi
Acyclic haematopoiesis (grey collies)
Canine hereditary neutropaenia

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Causes of neutrophil toxic change

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Usually severe bacterial infection
Parvo
IMHA
Acute renal failure
DIC
Neoplasia

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Prognosis when there is lots of neutrophil toxic change

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What is this cytological finding?

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Neutrophilic toxic change (foamy cytoplasm, dispersed organelles)

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What is this cytological finding?

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Dohle bodies (focal blue grey cytoplasmic structures)

65
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Cytological features of reactive lymphocytes

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More cytoplasm
Most cytoplasmic basophilia
Perinuclear halo
Prominent golgi zone
Larger, eccentric, cleaved nucleus
More large/medium sized (small in peripheral blood)

66
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Functional lymphocyte inclusions

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Large granular lymphocytes

67
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Infectious lymphocyte inclusions

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Ehrlichia
Distemper

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Metabolic lymphocyte inclusions

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Lysosomal storage diseases

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In which age group are reactive lymphocytes more prevalent?

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Young animals

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Reasons for lymphocytosis

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Physiological
Chronic inflammation
Young animals/recent vaccination
Lymphoproliferative disorder (FeLV/BLV)
Hypoadrenocorticism

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Why is lymphocytosis seen with hypoadrenocorticism?

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Loss of normal lymphocyte inhibition by glucocorticoids

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Causes of lymphopaenia

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Stress/steroid
Acute inflammation
Loss of lymph (chylothorax/lymphagiectasia)
Cytotoxic drugs/radiation
Immunodeficiency
Lymphoma

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Where are monocytes found?

74
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Where are macrophages found?

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What are monocytes and macrophages responsible for?

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Phagocytosis

76
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Causes of monocytosis

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Inflammation
Steroid/stress
Monocytic/myelomonocytic leukaemia

77
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Cause of eosinophilia

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Hypersensitivity
Parasitism
Hypoadrenocorticism
Paraneoplastic (mast cell)
Idiopathic syndromes (canine eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy, myositis, feline eosinophilic granuloma)
Eosinophilic leukaemia (rare)

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When are nucleated red cells seen in moderate numbers?

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Regenerative anaemia
Lead toxicity
Extramedullary hematopoiesis/EMH
Splenic contraction
Damaged marrow
Erythroleukaemia

79
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How should you confirm WBCC?

80
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Neoplastic condition of the bone marrow in which neoplastic cells of lymphoid or non-lymphoid stem cells undergo clonal expansion with or without cellular differentiation

81
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Which tissues may be infiltrated by leukaemic cells in the circulation?

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Liver
Spleen
Lymph nodes

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What is the cause of clinical signs in leukaemia?

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Failure of normal marrow function
Infiltrated organ dysfunction
Hyperviscosity
Paraneoplastic syndromes (IMHA, hypercalcaemia)

83
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Specific B-cell (plasma cell) neoplasia

84
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Is AML (acute myeloid leukaemia) or ALL (acute lymphoid leukaemia) more common in dogs and cats?

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AML more common

85
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Is AML (acute myeloid leukaemia) or ALL (acute lymphoid leukaemia) more responsive to aggressive therapy?

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How are cell types differentiated in acute leukaemias?

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Not cytology as morphology is similar
Immunophenotyping
(Cytochemistry)
Clonality testing (PARR/ PCR for Antigen Receptor Rearrangements)

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How are cell types differentiated in chronic leukaemia?

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Cytology (morphology of cells close to normal but there are too many)

88
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4 main reasons there might be a lymphadenopathy

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Reactive hyperplasia
Lymphadenitis
Metastatic neoplasia
Lymphoma

89
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FNA lymph node findings with reactive hyperplasia

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Cytologically indistinguishable from normal (heterogenous, majority small cells, some plasma cells/macrophages, few neutrophils/eosinophils/macrophages)

90
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Lymph node FNA findings in lymphadenitis

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Increased neutrophils/eosinophils
Inflammatory cells mildly increased or completely replace normal structure

91
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Lymph node FNA findings in metastatic neoplasia

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Carcinoma cells
Mast cells
Melanoma cells

92
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Lymph node FNA findings in lymphoma

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Increased % of large immature lymphocytes (>50%)
More mitoses than reactive
More tingible body macrophages
More lymphoglandular bodies (cell fragility)

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Reactive or neoplastic lymph node FNA?

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Reactive or neoplastic lymph node FNA?

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Neoplastic

95
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What organ is this?

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What is the pink?

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Red pulp
Meshwork of sinusoids with blood and macrophages

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Function of red pulp

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Removal and destruction of erythrocytes (damage/antibody coated)
Retrieval of iron from erythrocyte destruction
Blood storage

98
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What is the purple?

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White pulp

99
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What is the function of white pulp?

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T and B lymphocyte system (Ag processing)

100
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What are all of these?

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Incidental findings in older animals, not significant

101
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Causes of splenomegaly

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Infection/reactive hyperplasia
Congestion (barbiturate euthanasia/Anthrax/torsion)
Neoplasia
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemia

102
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What can cause a splenic nodule?

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Haematoma
Hyperplasia
Abscess

103
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What is seen in this spleen?

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Reactive hyperplasia to white pulp lymphoid tissue

104
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What is seen in these spleens?

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Senile hyperplasia

105
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Reasons for splenic haemorrhage

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Haemangiosarcoma
Benign haemangioma
Splenic rupture (GDV)

106
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What neoplasia causes blood filled irregular channels on histology of spleen?

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Haemangiosarcoma

107
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Primary neoplasia of the spleen

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Lymphoma (diffuse and white in bad cases)

108
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Site of T cell maturation

109
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What organ is this?

110
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What happens to the thymus after puberty?

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Involutes (still present)

111
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Responses of thymus to injury

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Lymphoid atrophy/depletion
Haemorrhage/haematoma
Neoplasia
(Inflammation)

112
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Are cysts a concerning finding in the thymus?

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No, incidental and not a problem

113
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Viral infections that cause thymus depletion

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EHV1
FPV
CPV
CDV
FIV

114
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When do cats develop thymic lymphoma?

115
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What is SCID/Severe Combined Immunodeficiency?

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Constellation of entities which vary in severity but all result in failed production of lymphocytes

116
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Immunocompromised

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Any aspect of host defense is deficient

117
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Immunosuppressed

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Immune defense is specifically impaired

118
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Immunodeficient

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Body’s immune response is compromised or absent

119
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Morbillivirus, RNA, enveloped virus which destroys a number of cells but has a tropism for lymphocytes?

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Canine Distemper Virus

120
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Infection with canine distemper virus

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Oronasal infection (inhale aerosol)
Replication in local lymphoid tissue
Enters macrophages
Disseminated into local lymph nodes
Spreads to other haemopoietic organs (spleen, bone marrow etc.)

121
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What virus would you suspect with these changes to the nasal planum?

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Canine distemper virus

122
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How is canine distemper virus prevented?

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Part of core vaccinations

123
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Non enveloped DNA viruses that have a tropism for fast dividing cells (GI tract crypts, bone marrow, lymphoid tissue)

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Canine parvovirus 2 and feline panleukopenia virus

124
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What precaution should be taken due to the fact that CPV and FPV are related viruses?

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Do not isolate puppy in a kitten ward

125
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Pathogenesis of CPV/FPV

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Panleukopaenia: destruction of white blood cell precursors in bone marrow
Vomiting and diarrhoea: sequestration of neutrophils within GI tract = damage to barrier = bacterial translocation (use antibiotics suitable for E. coli)

126
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Retrovirus RNA virus in oncovirus family that causes tumours in cats

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Feline Leukaemia Virus

127
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Transmission of FeLV

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Mutual grooming (‘love virus’)
Bites (rare)
Transplacental

128
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Risk factors for FeLV

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Young (more susceptible, groomed by mother)
Increased population density
Poor hygiene (unwashed bowls)
Shared bowls

129
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Clinical stages of FeLV

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Abortive
Regressive
Progressive

130
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Once cats have progressive FeLV what can happen?

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They can come in and out of regressive/progressive

131
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How is FeLV different to FIV?

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More severe, less selective (pancytopaenia)

132
Q

Retrovirus RNA virus of lentivirus genus that is closely related to HIV

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Feline Immunodeficiency Virus

133
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Do cats have to be clinically affected with FIV to have a positive serology?

134
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Transmission of FIV

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Deep wounds inoculated with saliva
(Kittens born to persistently infected queens rarely infected but antibodies may be present)

135
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Pathophysiology of FIV

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Infects CD4+ T lymphocytes (helper cells), dendritic cells and macrophages
Functional immunodeficiency leading to AIDS-like deterioration

136
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ats at risk of FIV

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Promiscuous (unneutered)
Old
Male
Stray (free-ranging)

137
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What disease is associated with severe stomatitis

138
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Control of FIV

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Vaccination not recommended

139
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Enveloped RNA virus causing FIP which is ubiquitous in the feline population

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Feline Corona Virus/FCoV (enteric virus)

140
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Pathophysiology of FIP

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Mutation allows FCoV to infect monocytes
Extravasation of monocytes (become macrophages)
Increased vascular permeability leading to effusions

141
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Clinical sign of FIP

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Pyrexia
Fluid in abdomen
Uveitis

142
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What disease can cause uveitis in cats?

143
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Forms of FIP

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Effusive (‘wet’)
Non-effusive (‘dry’)

144
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How does the effusive form of FIP usually present?

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Fluid in any body cavity (pleural, pericardial, abdominal)

145
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How does non-effusive form of FIP usually present?

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Ocular and neurological presentations

146
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What if the main factor in severity of FIP?

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Cats immune system

147
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What is antibody-dependent enhancement/ADE in FIP?

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The potential for exacerbation of disease by pre-existing antibodies

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