Gallbladder

Question 0

What carries bile from different lobules of the liver?

Answer 0

Bile ducts

Question 1

Which organ stores, concentrate and releases bile?

Answer 1

Gallbladder

Question 2

What carries bile to the intestine?

Answer 2

Common bile duct

Question 3

What are 6 things bile consists of?

Answer 3

• Water
• Cholesterol
• Bile acids
• Bilirubin
• Inorganic ions
• Variety of other constituents

Question 4

What are 3 things bile secretion provides?

Answer 4

• Bile acids necessary for digestion of dietary fats.
• Secretory route for various metabolites and drugs.
• Buffers to neutralize acid pH from the stomach.

Question 5

What is the first thing you check the gall bladder for during necropsy?

Answer 5

Patency

Question 6

What are 8 possible lesions of the gallbladder?

Answer 6

• Gallbaldder distension
• Gall bladder stones (choleliths)
• Biliary obstruction
• Rupture of the biliary tract or the gall bladder
  Gall bladder edema
• Gall bladder mucosal hyperplasia
• Inflammation (Cholangitis, Cholecystitis)
• Neoplasia (rare)

Question 7

Gall bladder distention is a common result of what?

Answer 7

Fasting

Question 8

Marked distention can be seen with what kind of toxicosis due to paralysis caused by the toxic metabolite Lantadene A?

Answer 8

Lantana camara

Question 9

What is another name for gallbladder stones?

Answer 9

Choleliths

Question 10

Concretions of normally soluble components of bile are known as what?
What can they be composed of?

Answer 10

• Gallbladder stones/Choleliths

- Mixture of cholesterol, bile pigments, salts of bile acids, calcium salts and a proteinaceous matrix

Question 11

Why do gallbladder stones (choleliths) form?

Answer 11

Supersaturation and precipitation of bile.

Question 12

Gallbladder stones (choleliths) are not usually significant until what occurs?

Answer 12

Obstruction

Question 13

What are 4 possible causes of biliary obstruction?

Answer 13

• Cholangitis
• Parasites
• Fibrosis
• Cholelithiasis (gall stones)

Question 14

What are 3 possible outcomes of biliary obstruction?

Answer 14

• Post hepatic jaundice
• Hepatic atrophy
• Biliary fibrosis

Question 15

Rupture of the biliary tract or gallbladder is usually what in origin?

Answer 15

Traumatic

Question 16

What does rupture of the biliary tract or Gallbladder result in?

Answer 16

Steady leakage of bile into the peritoneal cavity.

Question 17

What can rupture of the biliary tract or gallbladder lead to?

Answer 17

Chemical peritonitis

Question 18

If rupture of the biliary tract or gallbladder leads to an infection with enteric bacteria, this can be what?

Answer 18

Rapidly fatal

Question 19

What are 2 common causes of gall bladder edema?

Answer 19

• Right heart failure

- Infectious canine hepatitis

Question 20

What is inflammation of the gall bladder called?

Answer 20

Cholecystitis

Question 21

Is cholecystitis acute, chronic or either one?

Answer 21

Either one

Question 22

What condition can be seen in calves with acute salmonellosis and yersiniosis?

Answer 22

Fibrinous cholecystitis

Question 23

Both salmonellosis in cattle and arsenic toxicosis can lead to what condition?

Answer 23

Hemorrhagic cholecystitis

Question 24

A cystic proliferation of the mucus-producing glands of the gallbladder is known as what?

Answer 24

Gallbladder mucosal hyperplasia

Question 25

Where does gallbladder mucosal hyperplasia affect?

Answer 25

The walls of gallbladder and bile ducts.

Question 26

In what species can you seen gallbladder mucosal hyperplasia?

Answer 26

Old dogs, less often in pigs and cats

Question 27

What might gallbladder mucosal hyperplasia be associated with?

Answer 27

Mucocele

Question 28

Is gallbladder neoplasia common or rare in animals?

Answer 28

Very rare