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What is Sjogrens syndrome?

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  • uncommon vet

- immune mediated attack of salivary gladns -> dry mouth and dry eye

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What is myasthenia gravis?

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  • nicotinic muscarinic receptors ACh
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What are the 3 underlying factors to r/o as causes of immune mediated dz before declaring it IDIOPATHIC??

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  1. Previous tx
  2. Infection
  3. Neoplasia
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What is the emchanism that breaks down leading to immune mediated dz?

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Tolerance

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What are the 2 types of immune response?

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> humoral
- Antibody mediated
cell
- B and T cell mediated

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Potential trigger factors -> pathogenesis of immune-mediated dz? -

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  • release of sequestered ag (not usually seen by imune celsl)
  • abnormal imunoregulation
  • molecular mimicry
  • polyclonal activatioin of T and B cells (Bacteria can cause this)
  • exposure of cryptic epitopes
  • haptenisation (haptens = small molecules eg. penicillin) of foreign molecules to self antigen (stick onto big molecules and get them in trouble!)
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How can infection influence autoimmune dz?

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  • breakdown of vascular /cellular barriers allowing exposure of self antigen - promotion of celll death by necorsis causing inflam -> bystander activation
  • polyclonal activation of T cells - bacterial superantigens
  • molecular mimicry (pathogens look like self antigen)
  • vector-bourne pathogens may be important in some part of world (r/o) usually protozoal, rickettsial, bacterial
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eg. vector-borne pathogen that can cause IM dz? Dxx?

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  • Babesia
  • blood smear
    > bilobed pyriform gaps in RBC
    > inclusion bodies stuck on surface
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Most common aetiology of IMD? egs of potential aetiologies:

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  • usually multifactorial
  • genetic, infectious and hormonal influence (ex esp.)
  • canine egs:
    > SLE (genetics, viruses)
    > IMHA (vaccinal ag)
    > IMPA (vaccinal ag)
  • feline egs:
    > rarer
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What age is idiopathic immune mediated dx commonly seen?

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youong animals

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Which species are most afected by IMD?

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  • dogs
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Which cats are predisposed to IMD?

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  • more exotic breeds (siamese, persians, persion-related)
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What hx and clinical exam signs indicate IMD?

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  • remission and exacerbation fluctuating (beware coincidence of giving Abx and the dz remissing etc.)
    > PE
  • lamess, mucocutaneous lesions (ddepigmentation of nasal planum, lethargy, dyspnoea, weight loss, PUPD, +- seizures, behaviour,
  • effusive painful joints, cutaneous erythema, macular, papules, pustules, eroise, pallor +- petichiae, cardiac arythmia
  • lymphadenomegaly +- splenomegaly
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Ddx of depigmentation of the nasal planum??

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  • drug eruption

- aspergillosis

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What are the most important aspects of work up for IMD?

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History and PE

- DO NOT RELY ON DXX TESTS!!

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Potential findings on CBC/coag with IMD?

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> anaemia
- regenerative (IMHA)
- non-regenerative (infection, uraemia, chronic bleeding, attack of precursors) 
> thrombocytonpenia (MARKED) 
- IM thrombocytopenia 150,000
> leucopenia 
- anticonvulsants esp. 
- anti-leucocyte Abs eg. SLE, IM neutropenia
> coagulation abnormlalitis
- ^ APTT, PT, anticoagulant Ab (SLE) 
- DIC less common but poss
- hyPER coagulability d/t surface g stimulation coagulation
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What findings may be seen on blood smear with regenerative anaemia IMD?

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  • spherocytes (lack of central pallor, smaller cells, more apparent in the dog than cat) indicate extravascular destruction
  • polychromatophils
  • ghost cells (intravascular haemolysis)
  • rubriocytes (red cell precursors)
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What breed are pdf IMHA?

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cocker spaniels

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What diagnostic tests on biochem would be relevant for IMD?

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> azotaemia, ^ inorganic phosphate
- chronic glomerular lesions
> hypoalbumenaemia, hypercholesterolaemia
- PLN 
> hyperbilirubinaemia
- pre-hepatic/haemolysis
> hyperglobulininaemia 
- inflam dz, polyclonal B cell activation[lupus]
> ^CK and lactate dehydrogenase
- polymyositis and or myocarditis
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What proceses can cause ^ CK? ECHO

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  • anorexia

- muscular dystrphy

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What should be looked for on urinalysis dxx?

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> proteinuria
- PLN (r/o UTI and occult infection)
eg. dirofilaria immitis, ehrlichia canis, anaplasma phagocytophilum, borrellia burgderfori, rickettsia rickettsiae, bartonella spp
haematuria, pyuria, erythrocyte casts
- r/o UTI and infection
- compatible with membranoproliferative GN

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Which funghi are present in the uk?

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  • aserpgillus

- cryptococcus

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Dxx for locomotor affected IMD?

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> joint lesions common in polysystemic IM dz (usually non-erosive pauciarthropathy)
- erosive lesions suggest overlap syndrome
- arthritis not always clinically obvious
synovial fluid
- ^ WBC
- ^ protein content
- ^ neutrophils
- v viscosity (d/t loss of GAGs)
- culture
- poor mucin clot formation

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Where is arthrocentesis of the carpus performed? ECHO
- Antiebrachial-carpal region - lateral to: - medial to:
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Give examples of tests of IMD that oculd be used to r/o specific path
- coombs test - anti-platelet Ab - RF - T3, T4, TG autoAb - Ach R autoantibody - 2M Myofibre autoAb - antinuclear Ab - biopsies
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What is the coombs test? What other tests can be used for this dz?
- test for IMHA - antibodies associated with Ag on RBC clumps/agglutinates - titre down to lowest conc - if acute IMHA suspected, in-saline agglutination and osmotic fragility tests can also be performed > primary reagent : polyvalent canine/feline IgG, IgM, C3 antiserum (direct antiglobulin) - false + and - occour > monovalent better (send off)
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What test r/o myasthenia gravis?
- AChR autoAb (immunoprecipitation RIA of nicotinic AChR autoAb) - very good sensitivity and specificity (rare false +-)
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Forms of myasthenia gravis?
- focal - generalised - acute fulminating - paraneplastic
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Best PE test for myasthenia gravis?
- repeat palpebral response | > will tire and not be able to blink
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What test can r/o SLE?
- ANA (antinuclear antibodies) - indirect (patient serum not cells, apply to tissue sample) Immunofluorescence/immunoperoxidase - fair senstivity and specificity, some false results
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When would biopsy be useful? What tissue should be sampled?
> mucocutaneous dz - sample junction NOT centre > lesions may nto be specific for one dz - immune deposits in lesional tissue may be demonstrated by immunoperoxidase or immunoflueorescence techniques
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Why is IMD a problem?
Not common - BUT severely affected and can be rapidly fatal
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Which vector borne diseases are present in the UK?
ECHO
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What do neutrophils indicate?
Infection (sepsis) OR immune-mediated dz
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What does an air broncho-gram suggest?
- consolidatino of lung and pulmonary pattern
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What does fluffiness on thoracic rads indicate?
Interstitial pattern
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What is central and perpheral tolerance?
> central - thymic selection > peripheral - intrinsic (ignorance, deletion phenotypic skewing) ~ anergy - extrinsic (tolerogenic dendritic cells, Tregs)
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What are the 2 types of Coombes and gel response
``` > type 1 (MHC2) - Dendritic cell primes naive T cells - TH2 cell interaction with B cells - sensitisation - degranulation > Type 2 - NK cell (complement mediated lysis) - target cell (cytotoxicity and phagocytosis) - macrophages > Type 3 - Neutrophil and basophil activation - complement activation and immune complexes > Type 4 - Denrditic cell primes naive T cells - TH1 effector function - endothelial activation and local inflammation ```
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How can vector borne diseases initiate immune-mediated problems?
- immune complex deposition -> vasculitis - cross-reactive antibodies - hypergammaglobulinaemia - autoantibodies > other info on slide
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What causes masticatory myofibre autoAb? (MMM) Clinical signs? Dx?
- idiopathic immune-mediated disease of 2M myofibres (myosin) - swelling +- eventual atrophy of muscles of mastication - Dx: demonstrate autoAb against 2M myofibres of temporalis m. in immunocytochemical assay
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What test should be considered when immune-mediaed thrombocytopenia is on the ddx list?
- antiplatelet antibody test - indirect immunofluorescence test (substrate comprises PLTs from healthy donor) - reagent = fluorescenated goat anti-dog or anti-cat IgG antiserum (icroscopic and flowcytometric assays poss) - false +- possible
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What test r/o erosive arthrittis causes?
Rheumatoid factor - non-specific autoAb to igG (may be found in a range of infectious/inflam/neoplastic dz) - high titres seen with RA - assayed by ELISA/Rose-Waeler test > RF agglutinates IgG-coated substrate RBCs
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When is T3, T4 thyroglobulin autoAb test indicated?
- lymphocytic thyroiditis - Ab against thyroid antigen > 50-60% hypothyroid dogs have TG-autoAb > 20% euthyroid dogs with TG-autoAb develop signs in a year > T3-autoAb observed in 33% hypothyroid dogs, T4 15%
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What are SCE recommednations for interpretting T3/T4/TG autoAb results?
- normal FT4D and TSH => healthy euthyroid - low TT4/FT4D w/ ^TSH => hypothyroid - TGautoAb w/ NAD => impedning hypothyroid? - low TT3 limited diagnostic value, except SIGHT HOUNDS, which have low TT4 and FT4D based on generic canine ref ranges.
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What is the spectrum of immune-mediated dz?
> non-organ specific (usually d/t vasculiltis related effects) - SLE - Sjogren's syndrome - RA - canine familiar dematomyositis - DIscoid lupus erythematosus - pemphigus-pemphigoid complex - glomerelonephritis - easinophilic myositis - non-erosive PA - feline progressive PA - immune-mediated anaemia, thrombocytonpenia, neutropenia - myasthenia gravis

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