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resp pathology Flashcards

1
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What type of fluid is this and what is this condition called?

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-sero-sanguinous transudate

hydrothorax

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what can cause a hydrothorax?

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CHF

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What has hapenned to the dark areas of lung?

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congested and deflation (atelectasis)

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what diseases can cause congestion and atelectasis?

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thoracic cavity tumour

pneumothorax

haemothorax

pyothorax

abscess

inhaled fb / food

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What is the major abnormality present in image A?

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emphysema - diffuse alveolar and interstitial

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What major abnormality is seen in image B?

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  • flooding of alveoli with protein rich fluid
  • widened interlobular septa with fibrin
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what cattle disease can cause emphsema and alveoli flooding with protein rich fluid?

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Acute bovine pulmonary oedema and emphysema (fog fever)

  • lush autumn grass has tryptophan which converts to a pneumotoxin in the rumen
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name 4 features of the upper and lower resp tract that protect the lung from airborne infections?

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  • mucociliary escalator
  • mucus
  • nasal cavity with turbulent air flow
  • resident alveolar macrophages
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what area of the resp tract is most vulnerable to infection?

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where cilia end before alveoli

(bronchoalveolar junction)

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What portion of the lung is affected and what has hapenned to it?

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  • Cranioventral distribution on each lobe
  • dark bit = consolidation and congestion (chronic pneumonia)
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what is the condition shown?

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bronchiolectasis = permenant bronchiole dilation

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What is illustrated in image B?

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artery and bronchiole infiltrated in wall and lumen by inflammatory cells

neutrophils and purulent exudate stretch the bronchiole and fix it as dilated

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How do the changes in image A develope from the changes in image B?

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-damaged smooth muscle so stay dilated

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what is the blue material that is asteriksed within the airway lumen?

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thick mucous plugging the airways

can also see excess goblet cells and hyperplasia of the wall so reduced cilia so cant clear mucous

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This is from a stabled horse with a chronic history of dyspnoea and coughing. What is the most likley diagnosis?

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RAO

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How can you alleviate the symptoms of RAO?

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  • soak hay
  • good hay quality
  • change bedding to mats
  • turn horse out
  • mucolytics
  • bronchiodilators
  • expectorants
  • NSAIDs, steroids, anti-histamines
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What is the obvious abnormality and what do we call this in neonates?

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  • light and dark patchy appearance
  • primary partial atelectasis
  • it has taken a few breaths as some areas inflated
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What is the difference between the two images?

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Top = normal

Bottom = pink protein rich exudate - oedema

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What can cause pulmonary oedema?

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LS HF

brain injury

symp stimulation

tryptophan

smoke

paraquat

iatrogenic - excess fluids

barbiturate euthanasia

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A = normal

B and C = abnormal

c= more magnified

What is the difference in B and C?

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  • pink exudate and no air in alveoli
  • neutrophils present
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What two patterns of pneumonia are characterised by the changes in B and C?

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bronchopneumonia - infl cells in air space, inhaled

Embolic - from blood

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Describe the gross appearance of the lungs

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Large variably sized cream - yellow nodules

Granuloma or abscess

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what is the difference in cell type between a granuloma and abscess?

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Granuloma - macrophage

Abscess - neutrophil

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What does image A show?

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necrotic centre with viable macrophages then lymphocytes then capsule

  • a granuloma
  • dark foci = dystrophic mineralisation due to necrosis
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What cell is indicated by the asterisk in image B?

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multinuclear giant cell

(fused macrophages)

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How can you confirm Tb presence?

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ziehl - neelson stain - see magenta bits in macrophages

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What are the pathological changes with Tb?

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giant cells

granulomas

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What pigment do all these lesions have in common?

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Melanosis

-flat nodule

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what is the gross abnormality?

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Mucopurulent exudate

diffuse redenning (hyperaemia / congestion / haemorrhage)

sulphur granules in exudate

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what is the most likely undelrying cause?

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Norcardia or actinomyces as make sulphur granules

  • from environment from cat fight wound
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What has hapenned and what is this condition called?

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Atrophic rhinitis

  • bilateral concha loss, smaller turbinates and wonky snouth
  • tear staining
  • more prone to secondary infection
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32
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What pathogens cause atrophic rhinitis and how do they work?

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  • pasturella multocida - activates osteoclast
  • bordatella bronchiseptica - inhibits osteoblasts
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Describe the macroscopic changes in the lung? What are 3 possible causes?

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White nodules on very dark red lung - atelectasis

  • neoplasia
  • granuloma
  • abscess
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What is the underlying cause?

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Glandular (cells stuck to neighbouring cells and forming lines) neoplasia

  • adenocarcinoma
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35
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what is the most likely parasite causing this infection?

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Dictycalus viviparus

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36
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what is the likley immune status of this calf to the parasite?

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Been exposed before as formed a type 4 hypersensitivity granuloma

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37
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What defence function to the nasal chambers play?

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remove particles

humidify and warm

sneeze with noxious stimulie

38
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what defence function do the pharynx/larynx play?

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cough if particles aspirated

epiglottis blocks off trachea

39
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in what environment can resident alveolar macrophages increase in number

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dusty environment

40
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Where are lung mets common from?

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mammary

haemangiosarcomas

osteosarcomas

41
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what is hypertrophic pulmonary osteopathy?

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paraneoplastic disease where space occupying lung lesions can cause periosteal thickening of long bones

42
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What is primary atelectasis?

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failure of lung tissue to expand at birth

43
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what is secondary atelectaiss?

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collapse of a previously ventilated lung

44
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What is unusual about cattle lungs?

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thick fibrous septae between lobes so lack collateral ventilation

45
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what 2 things can cause secondary atelectasis?

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1) Compression - mass, pneumothorax etc, recumbency
2) obstruction - exudate

46
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what is emphysema?

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excessive air in lungs

47
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what is alveolar emphysema?

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permenant abnormal enlargement of airspaces distal to the terminal bronchioles, often from alveolar wall destruction by neutrophil elastace (RAO eg)

48
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what is interstitial emphysema?

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septal lymphatic are dilated with air secondary to forced expiration (pneumonia eg)

49
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what is compensatory emphysema?

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adjacent to an area of consolidation

50
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what to pigments can affect the lungs?

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melanin

anthracosis - carbon in alveolar macrophages

51
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What are 5 circulatory disorders affecting the lungs?

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hyperaemia

congestion

oedema

haemorrhage

thrombosis/embolism/infarction

52
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what is hyperaemia?

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increase blood flow into tissue (acute infl eg)

53
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what does dark red lung tissue indicate?

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hyperaemia

54
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what is congestion?

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decreased blood flow from a tissue (cardiac failure eg)

55
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what does grey/blue lung tissue indicate?

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congestion

56
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what are 4 causes of oedema?

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cardiogenic (press overload)

neurogenic (brain damage)

excess fluid therapy

damage to endothelium/epithelium

57
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How does oedema fluid appear with H and E?

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pale pink as protein rich

58
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what are normal factors resisting oedema?

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  • tight junction between alveolar ep and capillaries
  • intra-alveolar pressure > interstitial pressure
  • lymphatic drainage
59
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What are the 3 things contributing to a thrombus?

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endothelial injury

abnormal blood flow

hypercoagulation

60
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What is thrombosis?

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obstruction of vessels by blood during life

61
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what is an embolism?

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detachment of thrombi, lodged in small vessels

62
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What are the 6 types of pneumonia?

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broncho -

lobar -

broncho-interstial -

interstitial -

embolic -

granulomatus -

63
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what causes broncho-pneumonia?

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bacterial inf

aspiration pneumonia

*from airways

64
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What is the normal distribution of broncho-pneumonia?

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cranioventral lung

65
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how does bronchopneumonia spread between lobes?

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airway / necrosis of alveoli +septa

66
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what are the possible sequelae of broncho-pneumonia?

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resolution

abscess

pleuritis and adhesion

death from hypoxaemia

chronic and get bronchiectasis

67
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what is bronchiectasis?

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permenant dilation of some bronchi due to irreversible damage to bronchi wall

68
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what causes lobal pneumonia?

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highly toxic bacteria

aspiration

69
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what does lobar pneumonia normally infect?

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entire lobes

(common in cats as incomplete lobulation and septation)

70
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what causes broncho-interstitial pneumonia?

A

mycoplasma

virus

71
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what is the pathogenesis of broncho-interstitial pneumonia?

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infl in bronchioles – lymphocytic proliferation – lymphoid cuffing of airways

72
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What can cause interstitial pneumonia?

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-haematogenous damage

73
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what distribution does interstitial pneumonia have?

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diffuse

74
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what are 2 toxins that can cuase interstitial pneumonia?

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  • paraquat
  • tryptophan
75
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what can cause embolic pneumonia?

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endocarditis, hepatic abscess, phlebitis

76
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what is the distribution of embolic pneumonia?

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focal

77
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what can cause granulomatus pneumonia?

A

mycobacteria

funghi

78
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What are A-F?

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A = ciliated ep cell

B = type 1 ep cells (pneumocyte)

C= type 2 ep cells

D=alveolar capillary

E=alveolar macrophage

F=Clara cell

79
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This is from a cat’s nose with persistent unilateral nasal discharge

What is the mass composed of? what is the diagnosis?

A

diffuse proliferation of subepithelial connective tissue overlain by an intact ep

inflammatory polyp

80
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Lung from a horse with long term resp difficulty. Diagnosis?

A

RAO

chronic aggregation of plasma cells, lymphocytes and eosinophils around bronchioles with emphysema

81
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Lung from a young intensively housed calf with unresolving pneumonia

How did the infection enter the lungs?

What is the difference in the damaged areas of each lung?

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  • entered by inhalation as accumulated in lower cranioventral lobes
  • furthest left lung - chronic as pale and nodular. Will be firm and consolidated. Bronchiectasis and fibrosis cause the pallor and nodularity

Middle lobe - sub-acute = darker red due to blood leakage. Slightly undulating surface from infl cells filling and expanding alveoli and bronchioles

Right lobe = acute = dark red from hyperaemia. Surface is shiny and moist and smooth

82
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Lung from a 6mo calf that died in resp distress.

What is S and is it what caused death? How was S formed?

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S = bull of emphysema

  • a secondary lesions to bronchopneumonia obstructing air outflow by accumulating exudate
  • as cattle have fibrous interlobar septa trapped air can penetrate the alveolar walls and enter interstitial tissue forming air pockets
83
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What pattern is this?

A

Nodular interstitial

84
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What pathology is shown here?

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Pleural effusion

  • cardiac silhouette and diaphrgam not visible
  • increased opacity
  • fissure lines
  • lung edges away from thoracic wall
85
Q

What pathology is shown here?

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Pneumothorax

  • elevation of cardiac silhouette
  • no vessel or bronchi
  • area of lucency on left side if collapsed lung
86
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What pathology is shown here?

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cranial mediastinal mass

  • trachea deviated to left
87
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What are the 3 most common dog cranial mediastinal tumours?

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thymoma

lymphoma

haemangiosarcoma

88
Q

what pathology is present here?

A

Diaphragmatic hernia

89
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What pathology is present here?

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pneumomediastinum

  • as two vessels below trachea re visible when they shouldnt be
  • aorts appears better marginated than normal due to surrounding gas
90
Q

What pathology is shown here? what else is abnormal?

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Diaphragmatic hernia

Sternal fracture with some new bone formation

91
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What pathology is shown here?

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pleural effusion

  • black anechoic area at location of lung on both sides of cranial mediastinum which is consistent with fluid

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