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Skeletal Muscle Flashcards

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White Muscle Disease is caused by

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Vitamine E / Se deficiency

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Pathogenesis of Malignant Hyperthermia

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  • Inherited defect in skeletal muscle ryanodine receptor
  • Excessive Ca release and contraction when stimulated
  • Heat production and myocyte necrosis
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Disease

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Exertional Rhabdomyolysis

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Disease

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White Muscle Disease

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Causes of monophasic lesions of skeletal muscle

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Trauma - will be focal

Exertion - Capture myopathy

Toxin - ionophores, plants

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MDx

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

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Myocytes increase in size by

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Addition of Myofilaments

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MDx

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Diffuse eosinophilic myositis

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Disease

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Splay Leg

Swimmer Syndrome

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T/F: Atrophy can be the result of another pathological process affecting the muscle

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True

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MDx

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Polyphasic myocyte degeneration and necrosis with dystrophic calcification

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What types of causes incite this pattern of degeneration and necrosis?

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Polyphasic lesion causes:

Nutritional deficiency - Vitamin E/Se

Ongoing toxicities

Genetic defects in myocyte structure/metabolic elements

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13
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Pathogenesis of Botulism

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  • Decaying organic matter
  • Clostridium botulinum thrives and elaborates into environment
  • Ingested
  • Toxin inhibits Ach release from nerve terminals at neuromuscular junction
  • Progressive generalized paralysis with death by cardiorespiratory failure
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Disease

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Compartment Syndrome

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Muscular Dystrophy

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X linked inhereted myopathy reported in dogs and cats (especially goldens)

Defects in dystrophin gene - cytoskeleton protein

No treatment

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16
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Pathological process that accounts for this appearance?

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Degeneration / Necrosis

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17
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Lesions caused by White Muscle Disease are seen in (Active/Inactive) Muscle

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Active

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18
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MDx

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Focal Muscle Degeneration and Necrosis

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Disease

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Black Leg

Clostridium chauvoie infection

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Why is it important to use special stains when diagnosising sarcomas?

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To differentiate between sarcomas - each type behaves differently

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MDx

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Atrophy

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Describe morphological problem

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Muscle is pale, swollen and dry to the touch

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23
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MDx

(Rear leg of dog)

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Hemangiosarcoma

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24
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MDx

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Myocyte Hypoplasia

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25
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Pathogenesis of Infarction

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  • Recumbancy
  • Increased intramuscular pressure
  • Poor perfusion
  • Ischemia
  • Infarction
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26
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Possible cause of eosinophilic myostis in a dog

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Masticatory Myositis

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27
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Pathogenesis of Black Leg (Clostridium chauvoei infection)

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  • Ingestion of spores
  • Dissemination to muscle via blood
  • Latency
  • Tissue hypoxia/acidosis
  • Bacterial proliferation
  • Production of exotoxins
  • Myonecrosis and systemic endothelial damage
  • Death from septicemic shock
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28
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Exertional Rhabdomyolysis

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Necrosis/lysis of skeletal muscle

Ionic events of contraction can produce adverse environment

May have underlying metabolic condition which predispose - polysaccharide storage disease

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MDx

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Intramuscular hemorrhage

30
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What typically causes this pattern of necrosis?

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Acute Toxicity

Exertion

31
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Cause

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Damage to the Left Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve

32
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T/F: Cuase of muscle injury can be determined by histopathology alone

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False; supplemental tests and clinical history are usually required

33
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Cause

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Trauma - penetrating wounds, fractures

34
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What do myofibers do when they are hurt?

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Die

Regenerate

35
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MDx

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

36
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Morphological Diagnosis?

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Muscle Infarct

37
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Describe the lesion

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Fibrosis and fiatty infiltration (steatosis) of skeletal muscle

38
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Causes of myocyte hyperplasia

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Double Muscling

Inactivation of the regulatory gene myostatin - involved in myoblast cell progression to muscle fibers

39
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MDx

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Acute necrotic and hemorrhagic myositis

40
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Disease

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White Muscle Disease

41
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Azoturia

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Excess nitrogen in urine

42
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MDx

(Rear leg of dog)

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Rhabdomyosarcoma

43
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Causes of myositis

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Necrotic / hemorhhagic = Clostridium chauvoei, Clostridium septicum

Suppurative - Pyogenic bacteria

Lymphocytic - Immune- Mediated

Eosinophilic - Active protozoal / parasitic infections, immune mediated

Granulomatous

44
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“Biochemical” pathological processes resulting in severe muscular clinical signs

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Neuromuscular Junction Disorders

Electrolyte Disorders

Inherited disorders of Muscle Metabolism - Myotonias

45
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What cell type do neoplasms with striaged muscle differentiation (rhabdomyoma/sarcoma) derive from?

46
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Gross morphological diagnosis?

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Skeletal muscle degeneration and necrosis

Rhabdomyolysis

47
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Fibrosis and fatty infiltration (steatosis) often develops in what chronic skeletal muscle condition

48
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Causes of myocyte hypertrophy

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Exercise conditioning

Compensatory - decreased number/size of functional myocytes, increased load on remaining

49
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Describe the lesion

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Muscles are dark red, swollen, soft/friable/ palpable crepitus

50
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MDx

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Focal Suppurative myositis

51
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Pathogenesis of Compartment Syndrome

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  • Rapid muscle growth
  • Period of increased circulation (exertional)
  • Muscle swelling confined by facia
  • Impedes blood supply
  • Ischemia
  • Infarction
52
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What pattern of necrosis is this?

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Monophasic

53
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MDx

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Chronic eosinophilic myositis and muscle atrophy

54
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What pathological process could account for this appearance?

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Degeneration and Necrosis

Inflammation and Repair

Circulatory Disorder

55
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Disease

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Splay Leg

Swimmer Syndrome

56
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Causes of skeletal muscle atrophy

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Physiologic - disuse/aging

Cachexia/ Malnutrition

Endocrine disease - myocytes have surface receptors for hormones

Denervation - myocyte maintencance requires trophic factors generated at neuromuscular junction - occurs quickly

57
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Histological characteristics of myofiber regeneration

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Internalization of nuclei

Macrophage infiltrate

58
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Histologic characteristics of myofibers that die

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Vaculation of sarcoplasm

Condensation of sarcoplasm

Nuclear pyknosis

Calcification

59
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MDx

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Focal monophasic myonecrosis

60
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Disease

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Laryngeal Paralysis

61
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Pathogenesis of Polyphasic Skeletal Muscle Degneration caused by nutritional deficiency

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  • Vitamine E/Se Deficiency
  • Needed for enzymes like glutathione peroxidase / reductase
  • Lack of ability to scavange free radicals
  • Oxidative damage - lipoperoxidation of cell membranes
  • Myocyte injury
62
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What is morphologically abnormal?

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Decreased striations

Necrosis

Hypnotic nuclei

Neutrophil infiltration

63
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What 3 Pigments and tissue deposits are observed in skeletal muscle?

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Lipofuscin

Exogenous Pigments

Dystrophic Calcification

64
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MDx

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Polyphasic monocyte degeneration and necrosis, chronic, with hypertrophy, atrophy and fibrosis

65
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Capture Myopathy

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Zoo and Wild Birds

Due to exertion, stress during capture/handling/transport

Anaerobic glycolysis leads to hyperthermia and metabolic acidosis

66
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Endogenous Pigments seen in skeletal muscle

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Hematogenous Pigments (Hemoglobin, Hemosiderin, Bilirubing, Porphyria)

Melanin

Lipofuscin

67
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Type of skeletal muscle lesion

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Monophasic Lesion

68
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Pathological process to account for this appearance?

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Disorders of Growth

69
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T/F: Malignant hyperthermia is an example of a metabolic condition predisposing to necrosis

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