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| Definition: Hydropericardium |
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| Definition: Hemopericardium |
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| What can cause hemopericardium? |
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-rupture of great vessels
-intracardiac injections
-cancer: hemangiosarcoma, eart base neoplasia, mesothelioma
-idiopathic pericardial hemorrhagic effusion (large breed dogs)-bread and butter heart |
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| What is the common name for fibrinous pericarditis? |
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| IF the patient has fibrinous pericarditis, what mostly happened? |
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| How is suppuative pericarditis caused? |
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| -direct penetration or bloodstream |
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| What is cardiac tamponade? |
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| -compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac |
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| Does cardiac tamponade mess with systole or diastole? |
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| What is serous atrophy of fat? |
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| -lack of epicardial fat atAV junction and groove is gelatinous, amber, translucent as an indicator of severe cacehexia |
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| What are some of the endocardial diseases? |
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-subendocardial mineralization
-uremia
-chronic disease in cattle
-chronic inflamation
-rodenticides (calciferols) |
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| What is the diffuse distribution of subendocardial fibrosis? What is the localized distribution? |
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-chronic chamber dilation
-jet lesions |
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| Definition: Endocardiosis |
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-degenerative valvular lesions of dogs
-usually incidental finding and common |
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-inflammatory of the endocardium, whether mural or valvular
-this is a serious problem |
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| What features of endocardiosis distinguishes from endocarditis? |
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| -thickening is smooth, moist, glistening, and not scrape-off-able b/c tissue is messed up tissue inside the stroma, gray-ish tan, not always significant |
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| What are the two types of endocarditis? |
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| Which locations are most common for endocarditis? |
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-LAV> aortic > RAV > pulmonic
-except cattle where RAV is most common |
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| Which features of endocarditis distinguishes from endocardiosis? |
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| -build up a inflammatory, necrotic debris that is irregular, gross, corrugated, vegetative, dull, dry, crumbly and can be removed from valve, always significant |
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| True or False: Bacterial endocarditis animals must be septicemic. |
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| True or False: Endocarditis is a low pressure lesion. |
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| -FALSE, it is a high pressure lesion |
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| What are the prerequisetes of bacterial endocarditis? |
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-bacteremia
-/+ predisposing valvular damage |
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| Which bacteria is particularly bad at adhering to the valve and causing bacterial endocarditis? |
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| What is mural endocarditis? |
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| -extension to the wall from valvular lesion |
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| What causes ulcerative mural endocarditis in cattle? Dogs? |
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-Cattle: blackleg, usually right-sided
-Dogs: uremia, usually LA |
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| What is the other name for myxomatous valvular degeneration? |
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| Which animals are affected by clinical myxomatous valvular degeneration? |
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| -toy and small breed dogs |
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| Which locations does myxomatous valvular degeneration occur? |
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| -LAV >> RAV >>>> Aortic/pulmonic |
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| Which dog breeds inherit myxomatous valvular degeneration? |
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| -Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and Dachshunds |
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| Does myxomatous valvular degeneration cause left or right heart failure? |
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