MEAT INSPECTION Flashcards
Acute pericarditis
Chronic pericarditis
Gangrenous pericarditis (complication of traumatic reticuloperitonitis)
Vegetative valvular endocarditis
Multiple liver abscesses
Single liver abscess
Fasciolosis (mild)
- rounded liver due to enlarged dorsal lobes and atrophied ventral/caudal lobes
- prominent bile ducts
Fasciolosis (moderate)
- rounded liver (enlarged dorsal lobes and atrophied caudal/ventral lobes)
- prominent thickened calcified bile duct
- scarring
Which parasite causes fasciolosis?
Fasciola hepatica
Fasciolosis (severe)
- rounded enlarged liver
- prominent distorted bile duct
- severe scarring
- fluke in bile duct if not adequate immune response
What is the difference between cirrhosis and hepatic fibrosis?
CIRRHOSIS: small, multinodular liver. Fibrosis with regeneration. Rare.
HEPATIC FIBROSIS: uniformly firm. No change in outline. Diffuse fibrosis with NO regeneration. eg. ragwort poisoning
Hydatidosis
What is the cause of hydatidosis?
Intermediate stage of Echinococcus granulosa (dog tapeworm)
Cysticercus tenuicollis
Cysticercus tenuicollis (parasitic nodules)
Hepatic lipidosis
- friable
- yellow/orange
- swollen
- smell of ketones?
Telangiectasis
Nutmeg liver
-from right sided heart failure-> chronic liver congestion, centrilobular necrosis and fibrosis
Tension lipidosis
Johnes disease
What causes Johne’s disease?
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis
Generalised peritonitis
Interstitial nephritis
Interstitial nephritis (white spot- acute)
Pyelonephritis
What causes pyelonephritis?
Corynebacterium renale