Small Animal Flashcards
Aspergillosis
Cuases Purulent/hemorrhagic nasal discharge and epistaxis. Diagnosis by fungal culture or PCR. Treat with systemic azoles, topical clotrimazole or surgery with iodine cadexomer-impregnated bandages.
Aflatoxin from moldy food
Tremors, vomiting and hepatopathy. Control tremors + activated charcoal + intralipid.
Sporotrichosis
Cats: cigar shaped fungi inoculated via puncture wounds. Cutaneous ulcerative lesions. Treat with azole or potassium iodine.
Cryptococcus
Cats (zoonotic): causes roman nose presentation and respiratory signs. Narrow-based budding yeast on cytology.
Blastomycosis
Hunting dogs: causes primary pulmonary infection with secondary granulomatous lesions. Broad-based budding yeast.
Coccidioidomycosis
Valley fever in dogs: Respiratory signs + lymphadenopathy + seizures + lameness. Mimics lung tumors. Spherules on cytology. Treat with fluconazole.
Histoplasmosis
Respiratory and GI signs in cats + dogs. Anemia + neutrophilia + thrombocytopenia on bloodwork. Skin test or antigen testing.
Pythium/Lagenidium
Water molds: granulomatous masses in GI tract or pruritic cutaneous disease. Poor prognosis - wide surgical excision or amputation of affected limb.
Canine infectious tracheobronchitis
Distemper virus + adenovirus + parainfluenza virus
Feline viral pneumonia
Calicivirus + FIP (less common)
Lymphocytic portal hepatitis
No infiltration of neutrophils = good prognosis > 2 years
Chronic cholangiohepatitis
Neutrophil infiltration = fair prognosis (50% survival at 3 months)
Tick paralysis
Dermacentor ticks
Otodectes cynotis
Ear mites
Ring worm
Microsporum canis
Myxedema
Increased mucin in dermis caused by hypothyroidism or excess growth hormone
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Hereditary defect of collagen synthesis –> pliable thin skin
Tetrology of Fallot
Pulmonic stenosis + overriding aorta + RV hypertrophy + ventricular septal defect.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Rickettsia rickettsia
Soft tissue sarcoma
Locally invasive mesenchymal tumors with low metastatic rate
Blastomycosis location
Ohio + Mississippi + Tennessee
Suppurative + non-septic arthritis
Immune-mediated polyarthritis or rickettsial polyarthritis
Hepatocutaneous syndrome
Necrotizing skin disorder associated with liver disease
Paraneoplastic hypercalcemia
T-cell lymphoma or anal sac adenocarcinoma
Ehrlichia canis
Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks