02 - Developmental Abnormalties

Question 1

(Developmental Abnormalities)

(Rare.. occur in all species)

1. persisent opening between oral and nasal cavity?
2. complications of this?

Answer 1

1. cleft palate (palatoshcisis)
2. aspiration pneumonia (shit gets into lungs)

Question 2

Any combo of… list from low to high severity

Answer 2

1. stenotic external nares
2. elongated soft palate
3. everted laryngeal saccules
4. laryngeal collapse
5. hypoplastic trachea

Question 3

(circulatory disease)

• nasal hemorrhage or epistaxis

just read…

Question 4

(Inflammation of the Upper Respiratory Tract)

(Rhinitis and Sinusitis)

1-5. name causes

(say if these are acute or chronic)

6. granulomatous inflammation, atrophic rhinitis, focal hyperplasia
7. serous, suppurative, mucopurulent, catarrhal, fibrinous, hemorrhagic

Answer 4

1. infectious (viruses, bacteria, fungi)
2. inhaled irritants/allergens
3. foreign bodies
4. dissecting tooth infection
5. dehorning injury
6. chronic
7. acute

Question 5

(Outcomes of Rhinosinusitis)

1-4. What are four possibilities?

Answer 5

1. resolve - neutralization of inflammation
2. sepsis
3. spread to inner and middle ear
4. extend into deeper airways and into lung
5. can also invade cribriform plate and cause meningitis

Question 6

(Equine Strangles)

(streptococcus equi)

1. suppurative inflammation of the upper respiratory tract –> abscess formation where? –> how long to rupture/drain?
2. What is systemic dissemination referred to as?

Answer 6

1. in regional lymph nodes; 1 to 3 weeks
2. “bastard strangles” (often fatal)

Question 7

just read

viruses tend to cause necrosis or resp epithelium - more susceptible to secondary infection

Answer 7

read

when you hear interstitial pneumonia… think VIRUSES - viruses tend to do this to the lungs

Question 8

read