Digestive Flashcards
(22 cards)
In healthy animals serum amylase activity originates where?
Duodenum
Which species has salivary amylase?
Pigs
What are the main sources of serum amylase activity?
Pancreas
Liver
Small intestine
Where is amylase and lipase inactivated?
Renal tubular epithelium
Which pancreatic enzyme is more likely to have a false negative result?
amylase
Lipase levels in dogs with EPI is?
Normal
Which is the most sensitive/specific test for pancreatitis in dogs and cats?
Pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (PLI)
What 3 conditions in cats comprise triaditis
Pancreatitis
Inflammatory bowel disease
Biliary tract disease
What test diagnoses exocrine pancreatic insufficiency?
Trypsin-like immunoreactivity (TLI)
Cobalamin synonym
Vit B12
EPI: folate levels
Normal to increased
EPI: cobalamin levels
Decreased
Conditions that cause increased folate
EPI
Bacterial overgrowth
Conditions that cause decreased folate
Proximal and diffuse small intestinal disease
Condition that causes normal folate
Distal small intestinal disease
Conditions that cause decreased cobalamin
EPI
Bacterial overgrowth
Distal / Diffuse small intestinal disease
Condition that causes normal cobalamin?
Proximal small intestinal disease
Where is cobalamin absorbed?
Ileum
Where is full late absorbed?
Proximal small intestine
Glenn path changes associated with lymphangiectasia
Pan hypoproteinemia
Lymphopenia
Hypocholesterolemia
Hypocalcemia
Cobalamin and foliate in EPI/Bacterial overgrowth
Decreased Cobalamin
Increased Foliate
Causes of hyperammonemia in horses?
Colic
Liver dysfunction
Congenital enzyme deficiencies
