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What parts of the brain regulate adh release?
pituitary and the hypothalamus
When ADH reaches the collecting ducts this protein is released:
Aquaporin-2 (causes water retention)
3 cases of primary polyuria (which is most common?)
1) Osmotic diuresis (most common)
2) ADH deficiency (CDI)
3) Inability to respond to ADH (NDI)
5 Causes of osmotic diuresis
1) Diabetes mellitus -> glucose
2) Renal insufficiency -> urea
3) Amino acids/ proteins
4) Fanconi syndrome (AA or fatty acids)
5) Glomerulonephritis (protein losing neuropathy)
What is the most common cause of central diabetes insipidus?
Idiopathic (cause generally not found)
4 causes of nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
1) Congenital lack of ADH receptors (rare)
2) Gram negative endotoxins (pyometron)
3) Pyelonephritis
4) Chronic kidney disease
5) Metabolic disorders
5 metabolic disorders that induce NDI (most common?)
1) Hypokalemia
2) Hypoadrenocorticism
3) Hyperadrenocorticism
4) Hyperthyroidism
5) Hypercalcemia (Most common - from lyphoma generally)
How do you distinguish pollakiuria and dysuria from pu/pd?
By confirming the polydypsia --> have owner quantify water intake
Which is more often the primary problem polyuria or polydypsia?
Polyuria! (then they drink because they are dehydrated)
3 causes of consistent isothenuria on a U/A? What is the specific gravity reading for isothenuria?
1) Renal insufficiency
2) Partial CDI
3) Nephrogenic DI

1.008-1.012
4 renal values in a blood chemistry
1) BUN
2) Creatinine
3) K+
4) PO4
If you see an increased ALP on a chemistry profile for a pu/pd patient what disease do you suspect?
Cushings - Hyperadrenocorticism
If a pu/pd patient has a normal blood glucose and glucosuria what disease does this indicate?
Fanconi syndrome (lose glucose and protein in their urine but they don't have diabetes so their bg is normal)
What would a cushing's disease patient's adrenal glands look like on ultrasound?
Hyperechoic (whiter)
What is the normal size of an adrenal gland on ultrasound?
<7mm
What specialized test can be used to differentiate Diabetes insipidus from Psychogenic polydypsia?
Plasma osmolality (hi with DI and low with P-PD)
What test can be used to differentiate CDI/ NDI/ and psychogenic pd?
Modified water deprivation test
What patients should not have a water depravation test done on them?
1) Patient that is clinically dehydrated
2) Patient with a plasma osmolality >320 mOsm/kg
8 behavioral signs a horse is in pain
1) Abnormal standing position
2) Low head position
3) Ears pinned back
4) standing in the back of the stall not interacting when a person approaches
5) Spontaneous locomotion
6) Scared when the door is open
7) Lifting feet up
8) Not interested in grain when offered
6 side effects of pain (its a medical condition)
1) Cortisol release
2) Cardiovascular effects - tachycardia, arrhythmias, hypertension
3) GI effects - ulceration, ileus
4) Respiratory effects - pulmonary dysfunction, respiratory acidosis
5) Immune dysfunction
6) Clotting dysfunction
Nmda receptor agonist used for acute pain treatment
Ketamine
Which neurons cause wind up and amplify the pain signals?
Neurons of the dorsal horn of the spinal cord
What drug can be used as an intra-articular analgesia to down regulate pain receptors?
morphine
What are the 5 cardinal signs of inflammation?
1) Pain
2) Redness
3) Heat
4) Swelling
5) Loss of function
What is the most potent class of analgesics?
Opioids
Which opioid are horses probably being underdosed with? (we aren't using a therapeutic dose if we use plumb's)
Butorphanol (.2 optimal but .02 is the clinical dose )
What route of administration for opioids can greatly decrease the chance of side effects?
dermal patch (fentanyl patch but it can get expensive quick)
What 2 drugs together as a CRI are good for a standing procedure in a horse?
Xylazine and detomedine
How are edema and effusion different?
Edema -> fluid in the tissue interstitum
effusion -> fluid into a body cavity
What 3 tissues swell rapidly with angioedema?
1) Skin
2) Mucosa
3) submucosa
4 important variables of starling's equation?
1) Capillary hydrostatic pressure
2) Interstitial hydrostatic pressure
3) Capillary oncotic pressure
4) Interstitial oncotic pressure
(the rest are constants for that tissue)
What percent of fluid absorbed into capillaries actually stays in the blood?
Only 10% (90% of the fluid absorbed into capillaries is resorbed into the tissue)
4 causes of edema/ effusion (general terms)
1) Increased capillary hydrostatic pressure
2) Decreased capillary oncotic pressure (decr albumin)
3) Impared lymphatic drainage (blockage)
4) Loss of vascular integrity
3 causes of a loss of vascular integrity
1) Inflammation
2) Neoplasia
3) Heat/toxins -> leaky vessels
2 main types of edema
1) Peripheral edema
2) Pulmonary edema
3 main ddx's for abdominal distention
1) Organomegaly (gastric dil, si, li, bladder,liver, spleen, kidney)
2) Abdominal mass lesions
3) Effusions
4 ways fluids are classified with fluid analysis
1) Transudates
2) Modified transudates
3) Exudates
4) Neoplastic fluid
3 specific types of exudates
1) Chyle
2) Blood
3) Inflammatory
how are transudates/ mod transudates/ and exudates differentiated?
Transudate -> low cells and low protein (sg <1.015 cells <1500/ul)
mod transudate -> Moderate cells and moderate protein level (sg 1.015-1.025, <7000 cells/ul)
exudate -> hi cells, hi protein (sg >1.025, >7000 cells/ul)
2 general causes of transudates with example conditions
1) hypoalbuminemia ( protein losing enteropathy/nephropathy, liver disease)
2) Liver disease with portal hypertension (presinusodal or sinusoidal liver disease)
2 general causes of modified transudates with example conditions
1) Increased hydrostatic pressure
1)Post sinusoidal liver disease with portal hypertension
2) Budd chiari syndrome (post vena cava obstruction)
3) Heart failure
4) Pericardial disease (causes heart failure)
5) Lung lobe torsion

2) Damaged vascular wall
6)Neoplasia
7) Diaphragmatic hernia
4 signs of heart failure (other than a mod transudate)
1) Jugular venous distention
2) Abnormal jugular pulses
3) Hepato/splenomegaly
4 disease that can cause pleural effusion
1) Myocardial disease
2) Pericardial disease
3) Mitral/ tricupsid insufficiency
4) Severe R or L heart failure
5 causes of a chylous effusion? (most common?)
1) Trauma (lymph leakage from si)
2) Neoplasia (lymph node drainage is compromised)
3) Idiopathic (Most common)
4) Heart failure
5) Lung lobe torsion (lymph flow obstruction)
4 causes of a blood effusion
1) Trauma
2) Coagulopathy
3) Neoplasia (HSA)
4) Lung lobe torsion
What is the general cause of an inflammatory effusion?
Severe increase in vascular permeability
5 causes of non-septic inflammatory effusion
1) Pancreatitis
2) FIP
3) Bladder rupture -> Urine
4) Bile duct rupture -> Bile
5) Neoplasia
3 parts of Beck's triad on a physical exam (what does this indicate?)
1) Muffled heart sounds
2) Venous congestion (jugular pulses)
3) Weak femoral pulses
--> Clinical signs of pericardial effusion
What is the treatment for pericardial effusion?
Pericardiocentesis (get the fluid out!)
What is the best course of treatment for a hemangiosarcoma?
Patient must have resection surgery and chemo (only one or the other much worse prognosis)
5 steps of the cough reflex
1) Air inspired
2) epiglottis and vocal folds close
3) Diaphragm, Internal intercostals, and abdominal muscles contract
4) Epiglottis and vocal folds open
5) air is expelled
What causes the sound you hear with a cough?
Air and tissue vibration from turbulent air flow
5 things that initiate a cough reflex
1) Fluid
2) Noxious gasses
3) Particulate matter
4) External compression
5) Bronchoconstriction
What is a cough without inspiration called?
expiratory reflex
When does a expiratory reflex happen?
With direct stimulation (like intubation)
Distal vs proximal airways
What kind of stimulation is each more susceptible to?
Distal -> Chemical stimulation
Proximal -> Mechanical stimulatoin
What specific receptor of the airways stimulates a cough?
C-fibers
What is the reflex loop of the C-fibers? (nerves ect involved)
C-fibers --> Vagus n. --> Medulla --> cough center --> efferent muscles of the larynx, trachea, bronchi...ect
What species is less susceptible to mechanical tracheal stimulation (to cause a cough)?
Horse
Where are most receptors that initiate cough by contact with irritants?
Larynx and carina (they are also in may other places in the resp tract)
3 Cardiovascular ddx's for cough
1) Pulmonary edema
2) L atrial enlargement
3) Thromboembolic disease
Important ddx's for a foal with a cough
Septecemia or Rhodococcus equi pneumonia
Top ddx for a toy breed with a cough
collapsing trachea
American cocker spaniel with a cough - ddx?
Bronchitis (predisposed)
Young cat with acute onset of cough and dyspnea - top ddx?
Feline asthma
Dog or cat with a heart murmur on the L side and a cough - top ddx?
L sided heart failure w/ mitral regurgitation
Dog or cat with a right sided heart murmur and cough
Pulmonary hypertension with tricuspid valve regurgitation (r sided murmur less suggestive of underlying heart disease more suggestive of pulmonary disease)
Dog or cat with weak irregular pluses and a cough
cardiac disease (most likely cardiac and not respiratory)
CT with contrast is done when what disease is suspected in a cough patient?
Pulmonary thromboembolism
Where do the most effective cough suppressants work? What class of drug are they?
They work centrally (brain). Opioids
When is treatment of the cough symptoms specifically contraindicated?
Bacterial pneumonias
4 cough suppresant drugs (most effective?)
1) Butorphanol - most
2) Hydrocodone -most (2 of them)
3) Codeine
4) Dextromorphan
2 treatments for bronchoconstriction leading to cough
1) Methylxanthines (theophylline, theobromine)
2) Beta 2 agonists (albuterol, terbutaline)
3 general causes of dyspnea
1) Hypoxemia
2) Hypercapnia
3) Acidemia
2 chemoreceptors for hypoxemia
1) Aortic body (aorta :) )
2) Carotid body (subclavian a.)
What is the bodies response to stimulation of central and peripheral chemoreceptors in the airways?
Increased respiratory rate (try to compensate)
7 general ddx's for dypsnea
1) Airway disease (brachycephalic syndrome, nasopharyngeal polyps)
2) Pulmonary parenchymal disease
3) Pleural wall disease
4) Peripheral neuropathy/ myopathy (myasthenia gravis, botulism, polyradiculoneuritis, tick paralysis)
5) Thoracic wall disease (neoplasia, neuropathy, flail chest-rib fractures,penetrating chest wound)
6) Pain
7) High environmental temps
What is the term for increased rate and effort of respiration?
Hyperpnea
4 ddx's for tachypnea
1) Pulmonary parenchymal disease
2) pleural space disease
3) Thoracic wall disease
4) Metabolic acidosis (DKA, Ethylene glycol tox, renal failure, lactic acidosis, salicylate tox, diarrhea, ammonium chloride)
Why should you take note if a coughing patient was recently treated with glucocorticoids?
GC can cause pulmonary thromboembolisms b/c they can cause a hypercoagulation state
What diagnostic can be used to diagnose cilliary dyskinesia?
Nasal biopsies
Which sinus is not a "true" sinus?
Maxillary sinus
Which species has a functional sphenoid sinus?
cats
What causes nasal congestion (in general terms)?
When nasal capillaries become distended with blood
When stimulated this nerve causes a sneeze
Trigeminal nerve
6 steps of a sneeze
1) Rapid inspiration of air
2) Thyroarytenoideus contracts and closes the vocal folds
3) Abdominal muscles contract (air increases in pressure)
4) Caudal part of the tongue pushes up the soft palate
5) vocal folds open
6) Air is released (sneeze)
What kind of reflex is a reverse sneeze?
aspiration reflex
What kind of disease does reverse sneeze point to?
nasopharynx disease
A dog is standing with its head and neck extended in a reverse sneeze what phase is this?
the paroxysmal inspiratory phase
In general what kind of nasal discharge does inflammatory disease have?
serous or mucoid
What inflammatory nasal diseases often present with epistaxis?
fungal infections - Cryptococcosis and aspergillosis
Young dog with recurrent pneumonia and sneeze -top ddx?
Ciliary dyskenesia
Young cat with sneeze, nasal discharge and is not from a shelter - top ddx?
Nasopharyngeal polyp or stenosis
German shepherd or other large breed dog with sneeze and nasal discharge - top ddx?
Nasal aspergillosis
10 year old dog with chronic sneeze and nasal discharge - top ddx?
Nasal tumor
New cat from a shelter with chronic nasal discharge - top ddx?
Feline upper respiratory infection complex
Dog with acute sneezing that is rubbing it's face - top ddx?
nasal foreign body
Horse with a lowered head and a ton of purulent nasal discharge - top ddx?
guttural pouch empyema
Horse has just finished exercising and now has nasal discharge - top ddx?
lower respiratory tract lesion
4 non specific treatments to clears respiratory secretions
1) Humidification
2) Saline nasal drops
3) decongestants
4) Mucolytics
Treatment that can cause increased nasal congestion and discharge once stopped
decongestants
What is the treatment for lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis?
Immunosuppression - prednisone or prednisolone (and azathioprine, chlorambucil and cyclosporine possibly to decr side effects)
What drug might be beneficial for nasal carcinomas and lymphoplasmacytic rhinitis?
COX-2 inhibitory NSAIDs
What is the treatment of choice for nasal aspergillosis?
Clortrimazole or eniconazole
What drug is indivated if there is a fungal infection of the sinuses that has ocular involvement?
Fluconazole
What is the treatment of choice for cats with severe CNS signs and nasal discharge?
Amphotericin B and flucytosine (fungal infection)
4 Functions of the nasal passages
1) Filter air
2) humidify air
3) Moisten air
4) Sense smells
A horse that recently walked into a pole - it's shoulder seems to pop out during weight bearing phase - What nerve was damaged?
Suprascapular n. (infra/supraspinatus muscles effected)
Dog limping with severe atrophy of the triceps - what nerve is damaged?
Musculocutaneous n.
3 main nerves of the forelimb
1) Musculocutaneous n.
2) Radial n.
3) Ulnar n.
3 main nerves of the hindlimb
1) Saphenous n.
2) Peroneal n.
3) Tibial n.
What is the term for a behavior change seen in an animal before a seizure?
Prodomal sign (aura)
Non clinical seizure only seen on EEG
Focal seizure
Cat that all the sudden starts to tremor and bite the air after being pet on the back
Simple partial seizure
Dog staring off into space then starts biting it's flank mechanically
Complex partial seizure
Dog with dilated pupils, clinched jaw, and tonic muscle contractions
Generalized seizure
5 dog breeds with genetic predisposition for seizures
1) German shepherds
2) Golden retreiver
3) English springer spaniel
4) Labrador retreiver
5) Standard poodle
2 EMG abnormalities that may be seen in an animal with seizures (what should normal look like?)
1) Fibs (biphasic -fried egg sound)
2) Sharps (monopolar - putt putt sound)
(normal should be a straight line - quiet)
4 points of contact on the patient for a nerve conduction velocity test
1-2) 2 stimulation sites
3) recording site
4) ground
What is the unit for a nerve conduction velocity test? What is a normal reading?
units - meters/ sec (m/s)
normal - >50 m/s
Who has faster NCV readings dogs or cats?
Cats (in general because they are smaller, athletic dog could be similar or faster)
Which vestibular lesion causes ipsilateral conscious proprioception deficits?
Central and paradoxical (not peripheral!)
Dog that is circling, has increased extensor tone, and contralateral CP deficits - top ddx?
Cerebral cortex lesion (has decorticate rigidity) - will also have no menace in the contralateral eye
10 parts of the menance response reflex loop (hopefully she doesn't ask this)
1) Threaten -> Optic n.
2) Optic chiasm
3) Optic tract
4) Rostral colliculli
5) Lateral geniculate
6) Occipital cortex
7) Association corext
8) Cerebellum
9) Motor cortex
10) Facial n. -> blink
Acute onset of neuro clinical signs - 3 possible causes
1) Trauma
2) Vascular injury
3) Infection
Slow chronic progresssion of neuro clinical signs - 2 possible causes
1) Neoplasia
2) Degenerative disease
5 main segments of the spinal cord
1) C1 - C5
2) C6 - T1
3) T2 - L3
4) L4 - L6
5) S1 - S5
Cells that clear foreign substances in the liver
Kupffer cells
Term for bile resorption and recirculating in the portal blood to the liver
Enterohepatic cycling
6 functions of the liver
1) Carbohydrate metabolism
2) Protein metabolism (Binding proteins, clotting factors/ inhibitors, lipoproteins)
3) Fat metabolism (FA, ketones, cholesterol synth)
4) Urea synthesis (NH3 -> urea)
5) Bile acid synthesis ( fat sol vitamin absorption also)
6) Detoxification (bilirubin, urea, aromatic aa)
Where is conjugated bilirubin converted into urobilinogen?
the bowel -> then some leaves in the urine
6 ddx for hyperbilirubinemia
1) Excess production
2) Hepatocellluar disease
3) Disturbed secretion of conjugated bilirubin (intra or extra hepatic bile obstruction)
4) Congenital syndrome in sheep
5) Hemolysis
6) Obstructive biliary disease
Hemolytic disease from a toxin
copper toxicity in sheep - most likely
5 infectious causes of hemolytic disease
1) Leptospirosis
2) Babesiosis
3) Eperythrozoon (hemoparasitic bacteria)
4) Equine infectious anemia
5) Clostridium toxin (secondary to myositis)
What vaccine can cause hepatic disease?
Tetanis antitoxin for theiler's disease
3 most highly suggestive clinical signs of liver failure
1) Icterus
2) Hepatic encephalopathy
3) Photosensitization
Bilirubinuria is suggestive of what disease?
Obstructive hepatic or biliary disease
6 Indications of a poor prognosis for liver failure
1) Hypoalbuminemia
2) Hyperglobulinemia
3) Prolonged PT
4) high GGT and ALP w/ normal - low SDH
5) Fibrosis
6) Hepatic encephalopathy or Hemolytic crisis
5 ddx's for hepatocellular failure
1) toxin
2) Immune mediated (transfusion or tetanus antitoxin)
3) Hypoxia, toxemia, and shock
4) Infectious disease (EIA, EVA ect)
5) Hepatic lipidosis ***can happen in any large animal (and cats too :) )
What time of day are animals the hottest? coldest?
hottest in the evening
coldest in the early hours of the morning (sleeping)
3 main ways heat is lost
1) Conduction
2) Convection
3) Radiation
4) Evaporation
(also cutaneous vasodilation & behavioral changes)
What part of the body controls body temperature?
Anterior hypothalamus - negative feedback
If the set point of the anterior hypothalamus gets changed for body temperature what is the result?
behavioral and homeostatic responses to lose or acquire heat
4 responses of the body to activation of warmth sensitive neurons of the skin and mucus membranes
1) Increased respiratory rate
2) Vasodilation
3) Sweating
4) Attempt to find cooler environment (behavior change)
4 responses of the body to activation of cold sensitive neurons in the skin
1) Vasoconstriction
2) Piloerection
3) Increased muscular activity
4) postural and behavioral changes to conserve heat
Term for the hypothalamus responding to changes in blood temperature
Central thermosensitivity
What body temp will neonates with sepsis have?
normal to low
How are hyperthermia and fever differentiated?
Hyperthermia - no pyrogens acting on the hypothalamus and not associated with a infection
Fever - is caused by pyrogens and related to infection (and possibly drugs if they cause the release of pyrogens)
What is the genetic defect of malignant hyperthermia?
Defective ryanodine receptor - pigs, horses, humans and dogs
Term for the loss of ability to sweat - when is it really bad to see this?
Anhidrosis
If seen during heat stroke animal is about to die
4 top ddx's for a sustained hi temp with out a disease found
All CNS origin
1) Head trauma
2) Encephalitis
3) Brain malformations
4) Degenerative diseases of the brain
4 Clinical signs of central loss of temperature control
1) lack of diurnal variation
2) Absence of sweating
3) Resistance to anti-pyretic agents
4) Excessive response to external cooling **important one
Main exogenous pyrogen
Interleukin-1 (IL-1)
(also break down products of proteins and LPS from bacteria)
How can NSAIDs be used to differentiate hyperthermia from a true fever?
If the fever responds to NSAIDs then it is a true fever (decr temp)
7 Benefits of fever
1) Increased survival for specific diseases
2) Enhanced antibody production
3) Enhanced immune system function (L0, M0, and interferon proliferation)
4) Hypoferremia (keep Iron away from bact. )
5) Inhibit growth of some tumors
6) inhibit growth of some microbes
7) Can be used to monitor disease and response to treatment
Critical body temps for domestic animals
cow >107
cat/ dog 106
Horse >105
Useful diagnostic for a fever of unknown origin
Blood culture (don't discontinue antibiotics b/c if Ab resistant it will be cultured anyway)