Urinary 7-Cattle Specific Diseases Flashcards
What tree causes toxicity?
Oak
What part of the oak tree causes toxicity?
any part of it can cause renal tubular necrosis
What is the toxic substance in oak toxicity?
Metabolites of tannins
What will the kidney look like from Oak toxicity?
Swollen pale kidneys
Damaged tubules that can fill with blood resulting in multifocal red spots.
GI ulceration
What causes pulpy kidney dz?
Clostridium pefringens D
Pathogenesis of pulpy kidney dz?
Increased carbohydrate in the intestine causing proximal tubular degeneration and necrosis w/interstitial edema and hemorrhage leading to the pulpy appearance
Embolic Nephritis is also called?
White spotted kidney
When will you see embolic nephritis?
In stressful situations
Why do ruminants get embolic nephritis?
Bacteria embolize the kidney leading to microabscess and abcess formation
What is the etiologic agent that causes tubulointerstitial nephritis?
Leptospira interrogans
Hairy vetch causes what disease?
Granulomatous nephritis
Lesion of granulomatous nephritis?
Multifocal eosinophilic to granulomatous lesions within the kidney, skin, and other viscera
Contagious bovine pyelonephritis is caused by?
Cornyebacterium renale
ascending infection
What is a common neoplasia in cattle?
Renal Lymphosarcoma
What virus can be associated with lymphosarcoma?
Bovine leukosis virus
Lesion of lymphosarcoma
Multiple bulging, soft to tan nodules in the renal cortex
Urolithiasis is most common in which sex, and ruminant?
Males, and sheep and goats at the sigmoid flexure or urethral process
What is the most common toxicosis of cattle?
Bracken fern
What can bracken fern toxicosis cause?
Hemolysis, damage to bone marrow, and immunosuppression, and urinary bladder neoplasia is repeated low level exposure occurs.
What are the CS of bracken fern toxicosis and what is the prognosis
Intermittent hematuria, anemia, weakness, hemorrhages, concurrent infections
Usually fatal after onset of symptoms
CS of weight loss, diarrhea, and poor productivity-what can this be?
weight loss—-Protein losing nephropathy=
Renal Amyloidosis
