Urinary Tract: Urinary and Urolithiasis Flashcards
How can the urinary system be examined?
- History- how long/ other sigs
- Frequency/ease of urination
- Urine- smell/appearance
- Rectal ecamination- left kidney/bladder
- Catheterisation
- Prepuce
What is normal urinalysis for large animals?
- Colour
- SG- 1.02- 1.045
- pH- normally alkaline
- Protein- usually trace only
- Glucose- usually teace
What are the clinical signs of urinary disease?
- Abdominal pain
- Dysuria
- Haematuria
- Polyuria
- Anuria
- Oliguria
- Proteinuria
What urinary disease do the following clinical signs show?
1. Abdominal pain
2. Dysuria
3. Polyuria
4. Anuria
5. Oliguria
6. Proteinuria
- pyelonephritis, calculi
- pyelonephritis, calculi, cystitis
- diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipiidus, idiopathic in calves
- obstruction by calculi
- prerenal, renal or post renal
- renal amyloidosis
What diseases can cause haematuria?
- Pyelonephritis +pus
- Cystitis
- Urolithiasis
- Enzootic haematuria
- Acute bracken poisoning
- Toxic nephrosis
- Glomerulonephritis, renal infarction
What diseases may cause haemoglobinuria?
Babesiosis- red water
* port coloured urine
Post-parturient haemoglobinuria
Bacillary haemoglobinuria- clostridium haemoliticum
- What is hypospadia?
- What is a patent urachus?
- Failure of closure of male urethra- usually fatten fine
- Urine from the ummbilicus
- What agents may cause pyelonephritis?
- What can it be secondary to?
- Corynebacterium renale clasically or E.coli- usually sporadic
- Secondary to trauma
Ascending infection usually
What are the clinical signs of pyelonephritis?
- Chronic weight loss
- ± mild pyrexia
- Appetits usually ok
- Dysuria
- Blood and pus in urine
- Examine rectum- painful swollen kidney, bladder, ureter
What do these images show?
Pyelonephritis
How is pyelonephritis treated?
Long course ABs
* penicillins, oxytet
C.renale- sensitive to most ABs
E.coli- may not be
1/3 get better, 1/3 recur, 1/3 never get better
- What is often associated with cystitis?
- What can it be secondary to?
- What is the clinical sign?
- How is it treated?
- Pyelonephritis
- Secondary to dystocia
- Straining more pronounced
- ABs as for pyelonephritis
- What can amyloidosis be secondary too?
- What are the clinical signs
Secondary to other chronic infections
Clinical signs
* off food and ill
* profuse diarrhoea
* generalised sub cut oedema
* PUPD
* proteinuria
* low plasma albumin
* pale swollen kidneys
What can cause enzootic haematuria?
What lesions are found
Associated with long term ingestion of braken
- Haemangiomata in bladder
- ‘teart pastures’ high molybdenum
- Blood clots in urine
- Tumour in guts- squamous cell carcinoma
How does long term ingestion of braken poisoning show?
- Bright blindness- sheep retinal atrophy
- Enzootic haematuria- long term ingestion
- Gut tumours- sheep and cattle- long term
How does acute braken poisoning present?
- Bone marrow toxicity
- Pancytopenia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Petechiae in mouth, conjunctive, vulva
- Subcut bruising
- Blood clots- nose, faeces
- Pyrexia and depression
- Diarrhoea
- Haematuria
- Death