Pathology of the Urinary System I Flashcards
What animals have unilobar kidneys?
Carnivores and horses
What animals have multilobar kidneys?
Porcine and Bovine
Name 4 animals species with reniculate kidneys?
- Bovines
- Bears
- Cetaceans
- Pinnipeds
What is aplasia?
failure of the development (aorta never forms)
What is hypoplasia?
incomplete development/ fewer nephrons at birth
What is dysplasia?
altered structural organisation
What is renal dysplasia?
- kidneys fail to differentiate effectively
- Fibrosis
- has immature renal tubules
What is an ectopic kidney?
- Kidney misplaced from normal location because of abnormal migration during foetal development
- causes fused/ horsehoe kidneys
What is a renal cyst?
- Spherical, thin-walled distensions of cortex/ medulla filled with clear fluid
- can be associated with renal dysplasia
- single/ multiple
- usually incidental
What causes polycystic kidney disease
- autosomal dominant in persian cats and bull terriors
- Mutated gene- altered function of related proteins
What is the active circulatory disturbance
- acute nephritis, septicaemia, and toxaemias
HYPERAEMIA
What is the inactive circulatory disturbance?
physiologic, passive, hypovolaemic, shock, cardiac insufficiency, hypostatic
CONGESTION
What cause haemorrhages in the kidney?
bacteraemias and viraemias
What is renal infarction?
Local ischaemia of vascular occlusion usually due to thromboembolism
What necrosis occurs when smaller vessels are occluded?
Only cortex necrosis