Exam 4: Lab Objectives

Question 1

What is the pattern of pathology for Halicephalobus gingivalis?

Answer 1

Can migrate to any tissues, but kidney and brain/spinal cord are preferred spots
Incites very destructive pyogranulomatous inflammation
Renal failure is typical
Anemia is common (from decreased EPO production)
One or more large renal masses

Question 2

What is the pattern of pathology for Leptospirosis?

Answer 2

Corticomedullary streaks
Classical presentation = acute renal AND hepatic failure

Question 3

What are the differentials for canine with acute liver and renal failure?

Answer 3

Leptospirosis
Amanita toxicosis (mushroom)
Blue green algae

Question 4

What is the pattern of pathology for Canine herpesvirus?

Answer 4

Vascular + embolic
+ Pneunomia and hepatopathy
Highly fatal in puppies < 4-6 weeks of age
Virus is temperature sensitive (prefers cold temperatures)

Question 5

Answer 5

Canine herpesvius

Question 6

Answer 6

Canine herpesvirus

Question 7

What is the typical presentation of Actinobacillus equuli?

Answer 7

Newborn foal - “sleepy foal disease”
Acute diarrhea and fever
Colitis, dehydration, many white foci distributed throughout renal cortex (embolic or glomerular patterns)
One of the few causes of true infectious glomerulonephritis

Question 8

Cryptococcus in dogs, cats

Answer 8

Often includes ocular involvement and CNS
Embolic pattern
Cats = rhinitis

Question 9

Lymphoma in goats

Answer 9

Pelvic pattern