Stomatitis Flashcards
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What are stomatitis, glossitis, & gingivitis?
- inflammation of the mucous mbs of the oral cavity, tongue, & gingiva, respectively
what is stomatitis often accompanied by ?
- anorexia caused by painful mastication
- hypersalivation (ptyalism) from overproduction or failure to swallow
How do we classify stomatitides in domestic animals?
- superficial stomatitis (affects primarily the epithelium & immediate subepithelial tissues)
- deep stomatitis (affects deep tissues of oral cavity)
What are the different types of superficial stomatitis?
- vesicular stomatitis
- erosive/ulcerative stomatitis
- proliferative stomatitis
What are the different types of deep stomatitis?
- necrobacillosis
- actinobacilosis
- eosinophilic granulomas & ulcers
vesicular stomatitis
proliferative stomatitis
erosive dermatitis
Necrobacillosis
eosinophilic granulomas
actinobacilosis
what is the etiology of necrobacillosis?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
What is the etiology of eosinophilic granulomas?
potentially immune mediated
What is the etiology of actinobacilosis?
Actinobacillus lignieresii
What is an important cause of vesicular stomatitis?
Foot & Mouth Disease
What is foot & mouth disease?
- caused by FMD virus Aphthovirus (Picornaviridae)
- loves stratified squamous epithelium &, in young animals, myocardium
- highly contagious disease in Ru & Sw w/ great economic impact & low mortality
What are the clinical signs of FMD?
- vesicles, bullae, erosions, ptyalism, lameness, fever, anorexia
What lesions are caused by FMD?
- vesicular +/- erosive (due to mechanical impact) or even ulcerative (if infected w/ Fusobacterium necrophorum) stomatitis & occasionally esophagitis
- vesicular (+/- erosive/ulcerative) pododermatitis & thelitis (dermatitis of teats)
- in young animals, myocarditis that can present as occasional sudden death (up to 20%)
What is the pathogenesis of FMD?
- vesicle formation w/in stratified squamous epithelium is characteristic: hydropic & ballooning degeneration & necrosis of cells of stratum spinosum
- viral epithelial cytolysis creates microvesicles, which coalesce to produce intraepithelial fluid-filled vesicles (< 1cm) & bullae (> 1 cm)
- due to mastication & abrasion, vesicles rupture resulting in erosions; this stage of vesicular stomatitides is v difficult to differentiate from other erosive & ulcerative stomatitides (look for ulcerative collarettes)
- erosions may heal w/in a few days by proliferation of stratum basale, or progress to ulceration if abrasions & secondary bacterial infections damage the basement mb
what are differential diagnoses for FMD?
- vesicular stomatitis (Rhabdovirus)
- vesicular exanthema (calicivirus)
- swine vesicular disease (enterovirus - porcine variant of coxsackievirus B5 which causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease in humans)
- all of the 3 differential diagnoses have identical appearances & none are fatal, but sp susceptibility & epidemiology may vary
- final confirmatory dx is based on demo of the particular virus
- IMPORTANT: federal authorities must be informed about suspected outbreaks of vesicular diseases
What is important about vesicular stomatitides progression?
may present as erosive stomatitis (during certain stages) & can progress to ulceration secondary to abrasion & infection to the point that they cannot be distinguished from the erosive/ulcerative stomatitides
MACULE: colour change in the epithelium -> not palpable
- virus has gone here & infected these epithelial cells & then these viruses produce ballooning degeneration
- PAPULE
- damages the mb & water flushes in & causes cells to balloon
- as they expand, now you can palpate this
- then these cells are bursting & forming together a VESICLE filled w/ translucent fluid w/ a lot of virus in it