cattle urinary Flashcards
what are your DDx for heamaturia
pyelonephritis
cystitis
urolithiasis
enzootic heamaturia
bracken poisoning
toxic nephrosis
what is your DDx for heamoglobulinuria
(darker red urine)
Babesiosis
bacilliary heamaglobinuria
clinical presentation of pyelonephritis
chronic weight loss
pyrexia
blood and pus in urine
can feel swollen and painful kidney on rectal
what are the causative agents and treatment for this
corynybacterium renale or E.coli
long course AB’S
when is cystitis usually seen in cattle
secondary to dystocia
ascending infection
differentiate between cystitis and polynephritis
more pronounced straining to urinate seen in cystitis
what causes enzootic heamaturia
malignant lesions in the urinary bladder.
caused by heamangioma in bladder associated with long term bracken ingestion
clinical signs of enzootic heamaturia
blood in urine
anemia
weakness
fever
what does bracken ingestion cause in sheep cows and equines
cattle; enzootic heamaturia, blood in feaces, weakness
sheep; bright blindnes/sheep retinal atrophy, blood in feaces
equine: anorexia, incoordination, arched back, wide stance. Thiamine injections to treat
what is seen in cases of acute bracken poisoning
petechial haemorrhages
clots
bruising diarrhoea
heamaturia
death
due to bone marrow toxicity
what causes toxic nephrosis
Acorn toxicity!
acorn toxicity clinical signs
kidney damage
anorexia
depression
fetid tarry diarrhoea
death
what parasite is closley associated with bacilliary heamaglobinuria
liver fluke
migration of fluke triggers spores in liver
clostridium heamoliticum
clinical signs
bacilliary heamaglobuinuria causative agent
found in soil and dormant in liver (rare disease)
pyrexia, jaundice, anemia, oedema
causative agent of redwater
babesia divergens
(spread by ixodes ricinus
