Hystricomorph Disease Flashcards
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Gastrointestinal hypomotility syndrome
Slowed or stopped GI motility triggered by disease, stress, pain or combo. Always an emergency
Signs of GI hypomotility
-Dehydration
-Abdominal distension, gastric tympany
-Hunched posture, abdominal tenderness
-Bruxism
-Reduced number or size of fecal pellets
Diagnostics of GI hypomotility
Depends on underlying cause
-CBC: inflammatory leukogram
-Chem: organ changes
-Uranalysis: ketonuria, crystalluria
May be no abnormalities
-Radiographs
-Ultrasound
Treatment of GI hypomotility
-Fluids
-Analgesia
-Nutritional support
-Treat underlying cause
-Exercise
What antibiotics do you not want to use
Oral: Penicillin, lincomycin, ampicillin/amoxicillin, Clindamycin/cephalosporin, erythromycin
Antibiotic associated enterotoxemia signs
Diarrhea
Dehydration
Anorexia
Death
Treatment of Antibiotic associated enterotoxemia
-Antibiotics based on culture
-Choestryamine
-Supportive care, fluids, thermal support
Antibiotics you can use
-Enrofloxacin (FQ)
-TMS
-Chloramphenicol
-Azithromycin
Presentation of GDV radiograph
See gas distended stomach and the intestines are often cranial to the stomach
Prognosis of GDV
VERY bad
Not good surgical candidates
Ovarian cysts
-Typically bilateral or on the right
-Spontaneous during estrous cycle
-Can be non function (most common) or function
Ovarian cyst signs
-Abdominal distension
-Anorexia, weakness, lethargy, pain
-Functional-> bilateral symmetric hair loss in flank
Treatment of ovarian cysts
-Percutaneous drainage
-hCG for functional
-OHE high risk
-Spay at an early age is best
Predisposing factor for dystocia
-Bred after 6mo
-Obesity, uterine inertia from suboptimal nutrition
-Precocial young
Main type of urolithiasis
Calcium carbonate typically in ureters, bladder, or urethra
Clinical signs of urolithiasis
-Hematuria
-Stranguria
-Pollakiuria
-Dysuria
-Lethargy
-Reluctance to move
-Anorexia
-Weight loss
-Hunched
Common UTI bacteria
Corynebacterium
Treatment of urolithiasis
Usually unrewarding because genetic component
Often when you remove by the time they heal they have formed another one
Sometimes they stick to the wall
Signs of GP ectoparasites
Sometimes looks like they are having a seizure because they are so itchy
Trichofolliculoma
Benign tumor usually over dorsal lumbosacral area
Do FNA and cytology
Most common in males
Treatment of trichofolliculoma
Surgery
Can lance before surgery to make smaller
Differentials for masses in cervical area
Cervical lymphadenitis
Lymphoma
Cervical lymphadenitis
Strep equi zooepidemicus
Get in from oral abrasion that gets into deeper tissues and into lymph nodes
Sequela of osteoarthritis
Pododermatitis
