Musculoskeletal Pathology III Flashcards
Name three cytoarchitectural changes of degeneration
- Vacuolar change
- Internal nuclei
- Whorled and ring fibres
What is the chronic myopathic change?
- Excessive fibre size
- fat infiltration and fibrosis
What is segmental necrosis?
- Sarcoplasm begins to fragment
- Fragmented cytoplasm can mineralise
- Circulating monocytes infiltrate and mature to macrophages
In what animals does true muscular dystrophy occur?
Golden Retriever, Rottweilers
What is myotonia?
inability of skeletal muscle to relax
What causes malignant hyperthermia?
defective ryanodine receptor
What does malignant hyptherthermia look like?
fatal, produces pale, soft, ‘parboiled’ looking muscle
What does toxic myopathy cause?
causes monophasic or polyphasic necrosis
What is ionophore toxicity?
class of antibiotics used as feed additives
What is exertional myopathy?
- ionic and physical events associated with myofibre contraction can lead to myofibre necrosis in certain conditions
What is bacterial myosistis?
fairly common in livestock, response similiary
What occurs when there is decreased muscle loading?
atrophy
What is cachexia
weakness and wasting of the body due to insufficient dietary energy
What causes the hypercortisolism ‘pot belly’?
abdominal muscle atrophy
What is physiological hypertrophy?
normal response to exercise
What is compensatory hypertrophy?
occurs due to conditions that decrease the number of working mycofibres
What can compensatory hypertrophy lead to?
fibre splitting, which reduces diffusion distance
What is chronic myopathic change
- excessive fibre size
- fat infiltration and fibrosis- may result in increased muscle size
What is dystrophic
calcification?
A type of mineralisation that occurs in damaged or necrotic tissue in the body
e.g Ca2+ entering the sarcolemma
What is an innervation based anatomic defect
failure of innervation
congenital defects in lower motor neurons
such as arthrogryposis