vcna Flashcards
in all female rodents, there are separate orifices for what tracts
urinary and reproductive
which 3 viruses can affect ferret kidneys?
Aleutian disease virus
Systemic coronovirus
Distemper virus
Histologically how would you differentiate the viral renal diseases of ferrets?
ADV: membranous glomerulonephritis; lymphocytic-plasmacytic inflammatory infiltrate interstitium
FSC: Granulomatous inflammation (found in ~1/3 affected ferrets)
Distemper:viral influsion bodies in the bladder, renal pelvis and biliary epithelium
most common ferret kidney cancer?
lymphoma
VCNA believes you can distinguish porphyrinuria from hematuria on a dipstick
I’m pretty sure I’ve been told you can’t, but I also want to see if it fluoresces
histology of CRF in rabbits?
gross scarring; histologiy marked interstitial fibrosis and glomerulosclerosis.
commercial rodent diets are formulated with too much what for whom?
too much vit D for guinea pigs - can have hypercalcemia issues from it
histologic lesions of hamster amyloidosis?
Grossly, kidneys are pale and irregular; microscopically protein deposits, eosinophilic to amphophilic, in glomeruli, interstitium, or both
Histology of hamster glomerulonephropathy? (different than amyloidosis)
Grossly, kidneys are pitted, variably shrunken; histologically there are variable mesangial and glomerular capillary thickening, glomerular sclerosis, variable nephritis.
what’s the rat kidney worm?
Trichosomoides crassicauda - nematode of rats. eggs in urine. Gross
uroliths in rats are usually what kind?
struvite
contrast studies should not be performed in what kinds of patients?
hypovolemia, or demonstrating oliguric renal failure
old rats with chronic progressive nephrosis: are kidneys large or small?
generally large
