Urinary 7-Cattle Specific Diseases

Question 1

What tree causes toxicity?

Answer 1

Oak

Question 2

What part of the oak tree causes toxicity?

Answer 2

any part of it can cause renal tubular necrosis

Question 3

What is the toxic substance in oak toxicity?

Answer 3

Metabolites of tannins

Question 4

What will the kidney look like from Oak toxicity?

Answer 4

Swollen pale kidneys
Damaged tubules that can fill with blood resulting in multifocal red spots.

GI ulceration

Question 5

What causes pulpy kidney dz?

Answer 5

Clostridium pefringens D

Question 6

Pathogenesis of pulpy kidney dz?

Answer 6

Increased carbohydrate in the intestine causing proximal tubular degeneration and necrosis w/interstitial edema and hemorrhage leading to the pulpy appearance

Question 7

Embolic Nephritis is also called?

Answer 7

White spotted kidney

Question 8

When will you see embolic nephritis?

Answer 8

In stressful situations

Question 9

Why do ruminants get embolic nephritis?

Answer 9

Bacteria embolize the kidney leading to microabscess and abcess formation

Question 10

What is the etiologic agent that causes tubulointerstitial nephritis?

Answer 10

Leptospira interrogans

Question 11

Hairy vetch causes what disease?

Answer 11

Granulomatous nephritis

Question 12

Lesion of granulomatous nephritis?

Answer 12

Multifocal eosinophilic to granulomatous lesions within the kidney, skin, and other viscera

Question 13

Contagious bovine pyelonephritis is caused by?

Answer 13

Cornyebacterium renale

ascending infection

Question 14

What is a common neoplasia in cattle?

Answer 14

Renal Lymphosarcoma

Question 15

What virus can be associated with lymphosarcoma?

Answer 15

Bovine leukosis virus

Question 16

Lesion of lymphosarcoma

Answer 16

Multiple bulging, soft to tan nodules in the renal cortex

Question 17

Urolithiasis is most common in which sex, and ruminant?

Answer 17

Males, and sheep and goats at the sigmoid flexure or urethral process

Question 18

What is the most common toxicosis of cattle?

Answer 18

Bracken fern

Question 19

What can bracken fern toxicosis cause?

Answer 19

Hemolysis, damage to bone marrow, and immunosuppression, and urinary bladder neoplasia is repeated low level exposure occurs.

Question 20

What are the CS of bracken fern toxicosis and what is the prognosis

Answer 20

Intermittent hematuria, anemia, weakness, hemorrhages, concurrent infections

Usually fatal after onset of symptoms

Question 21

CS of weight loss, diarrhea, and poor productivity-what can this be?

Answer 21

weight loss—-Protein losing nephropathy=

Renal Amyloidosis