Things i can't remember Flashcards
What can be used to inhibit osteoclastic action in treating idiopathic hypercalcaemia in cats
Bisphosphonates
What can be used to reduce beta cell insulin production and increase hepatic production
e.g in insulinoma
Diazoxide
What is the reversal agent for benzodiazepines
Flumazenil
Sress leukogram
INcreased monocytes and neutrophils
Decreased lymphocytes and eosinophils
Increased erythrocytes?
Clinical signs of idiopathic polyradiculoneuritis
Ascending mtor paralysis starting from caudally over 24 hours
Slow nerve conduction
CSF elevated protein
- diagnosis of exclusion
Most spontaneosuly reover
What tumour can be assocaited with myasthenia gravis
Thymoma - expressed muscle like cells which contain AchR
Where are meningiomas commony found
Cervical spinal cord
What are type I vs type II Hansen disc disease assocaited with
Type 1 = extrusion i.e chondroid metaplasia therefore assocaited with chondrodystrophic breeds
= acute
Type 2 = protrusion i.e fibrous metaplasia; assocaited with old age
= slow progressive
What lesions can give us HOrner’s syndrome
C6-T2
brachial plexus
What breed has a much higher chance of developing progressive myelomalacia
French bulldog
Treatment for hydrocepahlus
Medication: corticosteroids, omeprazole
Surgery = ventriculoperitoneal shunt
Treating hepatic encephalopathy
Treat liver disease
Ctnorol seizures
REduce ciruclating neurotoxins via highly digestible protein in diet, lactulose to select for bacteria that make less ammonia, acidify gut to be an ammonia tract
Then once stable can deal with port-systemic shunt ligation
What medication do we use to treat CCD (canine cognitive dysfunction)
Selegiline = MOA inhibitor
+ use anxiolytics
Treatment for neospora
Clindamycin
Idiopthic trigeminal neuropathy affects which branch of this nerve the most
Mandibular
