Pericardial pathology Flashcards
What causes fibrinous pericarditis in cattle?
Traumatic pericarditis/ Hardware disease (fibropurulent)
Pasteurellosis
Blackleg
What causes fibrinous pericarditis in swine?
Glassers disease (Haemophuls parasuis)
Mycoplasma hyorhinis
Porcine enzootic penumonia (M. hypopneumoniae)
What causes fibrinous pericarditis in horses?
Mycoplasma felis
Mare reproductive loss syndrome (Eastern tent caterpillar from Strept. and Actinobacillus
What causes fibrinous pericarditis in cats
Feline infectious peritonitis
What causes fibrinous pericarditis in poultry?
Colisepticemia (E. coli)
M. gallispeitcum
Salmonellosis
Chlamydia psittaci
New duck disease (Riemerella/ pasterurella anatipestifer)
What causes purulent pericarditis?
Traumatic pericarditis/ Hardware disease
Foreign object in reticulum → punctures through diaphragm to pericardium
Lesions causes by traumatic pericarditis
Bread and butter (heart covered in fibrin)
Pericardial sac thickened
Fibrinosuppuritis
How does traumatic pericarditis cause cardiac tamponade?
Aorta and pericardial sac ruptured → blood filled pericardium → influx of fluid compresses the heart → heart can’t compensate leading to tamponade
Lesions of fibrinous pericarditis
SHAGGY HEART (pericardial space filled with fibrin)
RV and LV hypertrophy
Leading to heart failure
What is the prevention for hardware disease?
Magnets
Hydropericardium
↑ amount of transparent serous fluid in the pericardial sac
Associated with generalized anasarca (edema), CHF, irritation to pericardium
What virus can causes hydropericardium
African swine fever
Cardiac tamponade
Acute compression of heart due to rapid accumulation of excessive fluid in the pericardial sac
Associated with acute hemopericardium
Cardiac tamponade pathogenesis
Impaired atrial and ventricular filling → heart doesn’t have time to compensate → venous blood pools in systemic circulation
Serous atrophy of fat
Malnourishment
Utilization of fat stores for energy → adipocyte atrophy and replacement of serous fluid (shiny/ gelatinous)