Respiratory 3 Flashcards
What are 4 canine cough differentials? (there are 6 total)
- Infection
- Heart disease
- Allergies
- Tonsillitis/sore throat
- Collapsing trachea
- Neoplasia
What are some examples of infectious agents that should be on your differential list for a coughing canine?
Bordetella, parainfluenza, adenovirus-2 (Kennel cough)
Distemper (Pneumonia)
Filaroides osleri
Blastomyces (Fungal infection)
In addition to canines, collapsing tracheas can occur in what 3 other species?
Horses
Goats
Cattle
- Where is the most likely spot for the trachea to collapse?
- What type of an environment increases the risk of developing a collapsing trachea?
- In what age group of animals does tracheal collapse most commonly occur?
- At the thoracic inlet
- Household with smokers increases risk
- Typically in middle aged to older animals
- What is normal post mortem tracheal width to height ratio?
- What is tracheal width to height ratio with collapsing trachea?
- Normal = 1 : 1
- Collapsing trachea = 4+ : 1
With a collapsing trachea…
- Which part of the trachea collapses on inhalation?
- Which part of the trachea collapses on expiration?
- Cervical trachea collapses on inhalation
- Thoracic trachea collapses on expiration
Fill in the missing words of the pathogenesis for collapsing trachea:
C-shaped cartilagenous rings weaken –> rings flatten out –> the dorsal tracheal membrane stretches, becoming _______ –> the trachea collapses under _______ pressure –> collapse leads to mucosal irritation with increased _______ and inflammation –> cough
C-shaped cartilagenous rings weaken –> rings flatten out –> the dorsal tracheal membrane streatches, becoming wider –> the trachea collapses under negative pressure –> collapse leads to mucosal irritation with increased secretion and inflammation –> cough
A 2 year old male Bull dog presents for (1) snorting while breathing, (2) snoring in his sleep, (3) sleeping on his back, (4) and occasionally turinging blue and collapsing during exercise.
What is a likely diagnosis based on the signalment and the history?
Brachycephalic airway syndrome
In addition to the English Bulldog, what are 3 other dog breeds that are prone to the heritable condition of Brachycephalic airway syndrome?
Pug
Perkingese
Boston Terrier
List as many clinical signs of the bradycephalic airway syndrom as you can!
(There are 9 provided)
- Loud snoring
- Coughing
- Gagging
- Syncope (fainting)
- Episodes of collapse
- Difficulting eating
- Stertorous breathing (heavy snoring or gasping sound)
- Exercise intolerance with cyanosis
- Sleeping on their back
- What are the 3 primary anatomic components of bradyceophalic airway syndrome?
- What are the 3 secondary components that develop as a result of the increased respiratory effort?
- Elongated soft palate
- Stenotic nares
- Hypoplastic trachea
- Everted laryngeal saccules
- Everted tonsils
- Laryngeal collapse
This is tissue from a dog with a chronic cough for 2 years.
What is your diagnosis?
Collapsing trachea
- What abnormality do you notice?
- What disease process is this a component of?
- In what percentage of these cases would you likely see this abnormality?
- Stenotic nares
- Collapsing trachea
- 77%
- What do you call this abnormality?
- What disease process is this change associated with?
- Elongated soft palate (the tip of the soft palate has protruded into the airway and interfered with inspiration of air into the lungs)
- Collapsing trachea
This is tissue from a dog:
- What is your diagnosis for the diffusely mottled area of lung in the image?
- What is your diagnosis for the dark red anteroventral lung in the image?
- Intersitial pneumonia
- Bronchopneumonia
This is tissue from a dog that presented with the following symptoms:
Mild to moderate fever
Oculonasal discharge
Vomiting and diarrhea
Cough, labored breathing
Ataxia
Hyperesthesia (increased sensitivity to stimuli)
Deteriorating mental and motor skills
- What do you call the object circled in red?
- What are the objects circled in yellow?
- What is an infectious agent associated with the object circled in red?
- Red = eosinophilic, intracytoplasmic inclusion body
- Yellow = neutrophils
- Canine distemper virus
- Canine distemper virus is immunosuppressive and causes necrosis of what?
- That necrosis disrupts respiratory defenses, predisposing an animal to what?
- Pneumocytes, bronchiolar macrophages, and alveolar macrophages
- Bacterial bronchopneumonia
If an unvaccinated animal presents to you with a combination of GI, respiratory, and neurologic signs, what should be a top differential?
Canine distemper virus
Complete the pathogenesis of canine distemper virus:
Unvaccinated dog –> exposed to canine distemper virus –> viremia –> spreads to the epithelium of the ___?___, ___?___, ___?___, and central nervous system.
Unvaccinated dog –> exposed to canine distemper virus –> viremia –> spreads to the epithelium of the RESPIRATORY, GASTROINTESTINAL, UROGENITAL TRACTS, and the central nervous system.
Complete the pathogenesis for Blastomyces in a dog:
Fungus grows in the soil –> conidia are inhaled –> ___A___ –> hematogenous & lymphatic dissemination –> ___B___ –> macrophages release cytokines –> recruite additional inflammatory cells into the interstitium –> ___C___
A. Fungus becomes a yeast at elevated temperature of host
B. Systemic blastomycosis
C. Interstitial pneumonia
What are the following cell types:
Yellow?
Green?
Red?
Yellow = macrophage
Green = PMNs
Red = Blastomyces