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Which type of DNA viruses has these characteristics?
- Cause cell death
- Spread of infection
- Non-oncogenic
Productive
Which type of DNA viruses has these characteristics?
- Integration
- No spread
- Tumor cells formed
Transforming
Liver doesn't synthesize urea correctly, so NH4 levels rise causing CNS signs and toxicity. What condition is this?
Hepatic encephalopathies
What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in dogs?
Portosystemic shunts
What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in horses?
Acute liver disease
What is hepatic encephalopathy related to in cattle?
Chronic liver disease
Two histologic features of reversible hepatocellular injury
- Vacuolation
- Atrophy
Two general causes of atrophy of hepatocytes
- Lack of growth factors reaching liver
- Pressure from surrounding viscera
Four types of necrosis
- Single cell
- Coagulative
- Liquefactive
- Caseous
What defines a coagulative necrosis?
Cells maintain outline
What defines a liquefactive necrosis?
Rapid digestion of dead cells by hydrolytic enzymes
- Loss of cellular architecture
What defines a caseous necrosis?
Friable material with cheese-like consistency within a wall of granulomatous inflammation
Six patterns of necrosis of the liver
- Focal/multifocal
- Centrilobular
- Midzonal
- Periportal
- Massive
- Piecemeal
What causes centrilobular necrosis? (2)
- Hepatocytes furthest from portal vein are susceptible to hypoxia
- Viral infections
What causes periportal necrosis?
Unmetabolized toxins
What causes midzonal necrosis?
High enough [enzyme] to perform phase I but not enough to perform phase II, so reactive intermediates from phase I are just hanging around and start messing up the joint
Morphological term for liver changes caused by chronic passive congestion
Nutmeg liver
What are multifocal lesions of fibrosis and chronic inflammation of the liver caused by larval ascarid migration called?
Milk spots
Morphology of acute hepatotoxicity (3)
- Enlarged liver
- Accentuated lobular pattern
- Edema of gallbladder wall
Morphology of chronic hepatoxicity
Small, shrunken, nodular
Disease characterized by Spherical, sharply demarcated nodules
- Benign
- Affects older dogs
Hyperplastic Liver nodules
Disease characterized by Massive enlargement of single lobe or diffuse involving multiple lobes
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Gross appearance of bilary adenomas (cholangiomas)
White, solid, or cystic masses of well-differentiated bile ductules
- Benign
- Affects older cats
Gross appearance of Biliary carcinomas (cholangiocarcinomas)
Multifocal, solid, white/tan, depressed
- Locally invasive
- Malignant
- Affects older dogs
Gross appearance of cystic mucinous hyperplasia of the gall bladder
Numerous clear to yellow/green nodules
Clinically significant form of cystic mucinous hyperplasia
Biliary mucocele
Disease characterized by:
- Diarrhea
- Weight loss
- Polyphagia
Pancreatic acinar atrophy
Gross morphology of acute pancreatitis (4)
- Swollen
- Edematous
- Variable hemorrhage
- Fibrinous adhesions
Chalky white areas of necrosis in peripancreatic fat
Saponification
Gross morphology of chronic interstitial pancreatitis of cats
Smaller, firm, gray, irregular pancreas
Morphology of chronic interstitial pancreatitis of cats
- Small, firm, irregular pancreas
- Atrophy of acinar tissue
- Fibrosis
Morphology of exocrine pancreatic hyperplasia
Multiple small, firm, white/tan, slightly raised nodules within pancreas
- Should not be confused as a neoplasm
Aggressive malignant neoplasms of acinar or ductular origin that implant on peritoneal surface or metastasize to other organs
Exocrine pancreatic carcinomas
What muscle disease is characterized by Serous atrophy of fat?
Cachectic atrophy
Diffuse spread of infection through CT and along fascial planes of muscle
Phlegmon
What is the cause of eosinophillic myositis?
HS to degenerating sarcocysts in skeletal muscle
What is nutritional myopathy of cattle AKA?
White muscle disease