Path Final - Urinary TS Flashcards

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What part of the golmerulus supports the capillaries and is composed of glycoprotein matrix?

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mesanguim, mesangial cells (smooth muscle cells)

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What cells are visceral epithelial cells that participate in glomerular filtration?

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podocytes

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What is the order of vasculature in the kidney?

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renal artery -> interlobar -> arcuate -> interlobular ->afferent golmerular -> capillaries ->efferent ->preitubular capillary network

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What kidney arteries are more susceptible to embolism?

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interlobular arteries

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*What roles do kidneys play in endocrine fxn? (4)

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renin-angiotensin aldosterone - sodium
erythropoietin
vitamin d conversion
degradation of PTH

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What hormone stimulates aldosterone secretion from adrenal gland and ADH release from post. pituatary?

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angiotensin 2

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What 3 things do interstitial fibroblasts produce?

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EPO, prostaglandins, inflammatory mediators

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What is the functional reserve percentage for the kidney?

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75% (then azotemia occurs)

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What is the term for elevated serum concentration of urea and creatinine?

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azotemia

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What syndrome is characterized by numerous lesions and CS caused by urea in blood with renal failure?

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uremia

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What are the 2 systemic lesion mechanisms caused by uremia?

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  1. uremic vasculopathy - vasculitis, thrombosis

2. uremic toxicity - caustic injury to mucosa due to ammonia by bacteria

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What are some additional systemic non renal lesions associated with uremic syndrome?

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ulcerative colitis, vascular thrombosis, fibrinous pericarditis, pulmonary edema, endocardial mineralization, intercostal minerlization

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What are the 3 mechanisms in which renal failure can cause death?

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cardiotoxicity of potassium
metabolic acidosis
pulmonary edema

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What are 2 causes of prerenal acute kidney failure due to imparied renal perfusion?

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circulatory collapse

renal ischemia

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What are the 2 clinical presentations of acute tubular necrosis?

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oliguria, anuria

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What 2 ways can acute tubular necrosis lead to further renal injury?

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leakage of tubular ultrafiltrate

intratubular obstruction from sloughing - tubular casts

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What bacteria and viruses can cause acute tubular necrosis?

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bacteria - lepto, e coli, strep, staph, proteus

virus - canine hepatitis, canine distemper, canine herpes

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What is the most important barrier in the kidney?

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glomerular basement membrane of renal corpuscle

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What part of the kidney prevents ascending bacteria from gaining access to the interstitum?

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tubular BM

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Which tubular injury usually leaves the basement membrane intact to regenerate?

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toxic injury (ischemic injury - no BM)

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What is the single most important cause of acute renal failure in animals? What is it caused by?

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acute tubular necrosis

ischemia or nephrotoxicity

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What is the term for a form of acute tubular necrosis that is not caused by inflammation? What is it caused by?

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nephrosis

hypoxic combined with nephrotoxic injury

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What are the gross lesions of acute tubular necrosis?

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swollen pale cortex that bulges, striations or white streaks

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What is the most common interstitial response to leptospira infection?

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lymphofollicular inflammation

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What are 3 examples of infectious interstitial nephritis?
canine ehrlichiosis, lepto, EIA
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What kind of necrosis happens during kidney infarction?
coagulative
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What kidney dysplasia is seen in lhasa apso, shih tzu and golden retrievers?
juvenile progressive nephropathy
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What species get renal cysts most often?
cattle and pigs - no clinical significance
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What breeds get polycystic kidney disease?
persian cats and bull terriers
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What is the disease associated with fibrosis of the glomerulus caused by high blood pressure and high protein diet?
golmerulosclerosis
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What breeds are genetically predisposed to glomerular amyloidosis?
abyssinian cats and chinese shar peis
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What stain is used for amyloid?
congo red stain
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What are examples of bacterial embolic nephritis causes in foals, pigs, sheep, and cattle?
foal - actinobacillus equuli pigs - erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae sheep - corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis cattle - trueperlla pyogenes
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What viruses cause viral glomerulitis?
canine hepatitis, equine arteritis, classical swine fever, newcastle, neonatal porcine cytomegalovirus
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What are 4 drugs that cause chemical glomerulitis?
puromycin aminonucleoside adriamycin histamine antagonists cyclosporin A
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What developmental disease results in abnormal brush border membrane of PCT?
basenji dog fanconi syndrome
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What breed gets primary renal glucosuria?
norwegian elkhounds
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What are some hemolytic compounds that can cause hemoglobinuric nephrosis in different species?
sheep - copper toxicity cattle - lepto or babesia dogs - IMHA, babesia horses - red maple toxicity
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What are some conditions that cause myoglobinuric nephrosis by causing acute muscle necrosis?
Extertional myopathy in horses Capture myopathy severe muscle trauma
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What histologic changes are seen in acute tubular necrosis caused by heavy metals?
intranuclear inclusion bodies
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What 4 types of drugs cause acute tubular necrosis?
antimicrobials, NSAIDs, immunosuppressive drugs, antineoplastics
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How do NSAIDs cause acute tubular necrosis?
decrease prostaglandins that maintain blood flow - ischemic injury can also cause renal papillary necrosis
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What mycotoxin causes acute tubular necrosis?
aflatoxin
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What are the plant toxins that can cause acute tubular necrosis?
pigweed, oxalate rich plants, grapes, lillies, oak
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What are the 2 pet food contaminants that cause acute tubular necrosis?
melamine and cyanuric acid
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What nephrotoxic metabolites cause oxalate nephrosis and acute tubular necrosis?
oxalate and glycolic acid
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How does vitamin D toxicosis lead to acute tubular necrosis?
hypercalcemia - metastatic minerilzation
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Which bacteria causes acute tubular necrosis by enteric proliferation and producing epsilon exotoxin?
Clostridium perfringes type D
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What lesions are seen in bacterial toxin induced acute tubular necrosis?
bilateral acute tubular degeneration with interstitial edema and hemorrhage
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What is the name for bacterial toxin induced acute tubular necrosis in small ruminants?
pulpy kidney
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What is the term for dilation of the renal pelvis due to obbstruction of urine outflow?
hydronephrosis
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What are gross and micro lesions associated with pyelonephritis?
gross - expansion by pus | micro - suppurative inflammation of pelvis and medulla with necrotic transitional epithelium
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What causes papillary necrosis?
ischemic injury caused by NSAIDs
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Hydronephrosis, pyelonephritis, and papillary necrosis are all diseases of what part of the kidney?
renal pelvis
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Granulomatous nephritis, xanthogranulomas, and renal amyloidosis are all diseases of what part of the kidney?
interstitum
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Which breed most commonly gets renal interstitial amyloidosis?
abyssinian cats
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What is the most common primary renal neoplasm of the kidney? Who gets it the most?
renal carcinoma | older dogs - german shepherds
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What disease is renal carcinomas in german shepherds associated with?
nodular dermatofibrosis
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What epithelial tumor in the urinary system has a very high metastatic potential?
transitional cell carcinoma (usually in bladder)
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What embryonal tumor of the kidney is common in pigs?
nephroblastoma
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What is a common neoplasm that metastasizes to the kidney?
renal lymphoma
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What 2 invasive tumors can invade the kidney?
pheochromocytoma | adrenocortical carcinoma
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What is the most common malformation of the urinary bladder?
patent urachus - seen in foals
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What is the most essential precursor to initiation of crystal and urolith formation?
supersaturation of urine with mineral salts and proetin
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Which crystal is known as "infection calculi" and occurs normally in mini schnauzers?
struvite
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What crystal is found normally in horses, rabbits, and goats and doesnt indicate dz?
calcium carbonate
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What crystal is seen in dalmations and no clinical interpretation can be made?
amorphous
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What crystal is seen normally in domestic animals but rarely seen in ethylene glycol toxicity?
calcium oxalate dihydrate
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What crystals are shaped like a picket fence and seen in acute renal failure and ethylene glycol toxicosis?
calcium oxalate monohydrate
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What crystal is common in small animals with portal vascular anomalies? Which breeds are predisposed to them?
ammonium biurate | seen in dalmations and bulldogs
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Which crystal is favored in acidic urine and may have a sex linked inheritance for predisposition?
cysteine crystal
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What is the most common example of a drug associated crystal?
trimethoprim-sulfadiazine, not associated with renal dz
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What is the most common cause of obstructive uropathy? *What can it predispose the animal to?
urolithiasis | *injury, bacterial cystitis, pyelonephritis, chronic inflammatory dz
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*Infections of what bacteria/viruses cause tubulointerstitial nephritis?
lepto, adenovirus, lentivirus, herpes
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*Which causes a larger infarct? Arcuate or interlobular artery?
arcuate
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*What 2 species are ectopic kidneys most commonly found?
dogs and pigs
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*What disease causes enlarged glomeruli that look like red pin point foci in the cortex grossly?
immune mediated golmerulonephritis
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*What is the most common type of IM glomerulonephritis histo lesions in horse?
proliferative glomerulonephritis - increased cells
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*What is the most common type of IM glomerulonephritis histo lesions in the cat?
membranous glomerulonephritis - thickened BM
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*What is the most common type of IM glomerulonephritis histo lesion in dogs?
Membrano-proliferative
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*What condition is associated with reactive amyloidosis (AA) and occurs with chronic inflammatory dzs?
glomerular amyloidosis
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*What 2 fungi can cause acute tubular necrosis?
aspergillus and penicillum
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*What 2 viruses cause granulomatous nephritis?
FIP, porcine circovirus
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*What 3 fungi cause granulmatous nephritis?
Aspergillosis, histoplasmosis, encephalitozoonosis
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*What are the 3 morphological types of chronic cystitis?
diffuse, lymphofollicular, polypoid
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*What protozoa infects the kidneys but usually leaves renal fxn alone?
Klossiella equi
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*What are 3 common bacteria to cause emboliic nephritis?
E coli, salmonlla, brucella
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*What 3 leptospira serovars cause interstitial nephritis?
hardjo, pomona, grippotyphosa
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*What is the disease caused by bracken fern in cattle kidney?
enzootic hematuria - hemolysis, BM damage, immunosuppression
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*What 3 leptospira serovars cause significant clinical dz in pigs?
pomona, tarassovi, australis
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*What strongyloid nematode migrates to the kidney after cycling through the liver in pigs?
Stephanurus dentatus (kidney worm)
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*What virus of pigs causes viral interstitial nephritis?
circovirus (PMWS)
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*What 2 leptospira serovars are found in dogs?
icterohaemorrhagiae and canicola
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*What disease in cats is usually associated with urethral obstruction by calculi in males?
hemorrhagic urocystitis (feline urologic syndrome)
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*What are the 3 toxicosis of cats that cause tubulointerstitial nephritis?
melamine, cyanuric acid, lillies
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*What causes parasitism of the kidney of dogs resulting in hemorrhagic and purulent pyelitis?
Dioctophyma renale (giant kidney worm)