Respiratory 1 & 2 Flashcards
What are the three routes into the respiratory system?
Aerogenous (inspired air), Hematogenous (blood) and Direct Extension
What disease agents enter the aerogenous route?
Infectious pathogens and toxins
What disease agents enter the hematogenous route?
Septicemia, bacteremia, parasites, neoplasia
What disease agents enter the direct extension route?
Bites, penetrating wounds, migrating foreign bodies, neoplasia.
Particles larger then 2um are caught in…
Nasal turbinates’ and at tracheal and bronchial bifurcations.
What is clearance? (In reference to the upper respiratory tract)
It is the process of destroying, neutralizing, or removing deposited particles in the respiratory system.
What are the methods of clearance? (In reference to the upper respiratory tract).
Sneezing, coughing, phagocytosis, and mucociliary transport.
What is mucociliary transport? Where does it extend from?
It extends from the bronchi to the pharynx. Sol and gel phase mucus is produced by goblet cells and serous cells by the sub mucosal glands. Mucus is transported by ciliary activity toward the pharynx (it is swallowed or coughed out).
What are the cell associated defenses of the nose, trachea, and bronchi?
Antibodies, lysozyme and mucus.
What are the cell associated defenses of the bronchioles?
Clara cells, antioxidants lysozyme and antibodies.
What is the special defense tissue type that is present at bronchial bifurcations?
BALT (bronchial-associated lymphoid tissue).
Antigen presenting cells in these regions phagocytose and transport inhaled particles.
What is the function of the Clara cell? What part of the lungs is it found? Is it ciliated or non ciliated?
Non-ciliated cell located in the bronchioles.
Has a role as a cytokine inhibitor, producer of antibacterial and antioxidant molecules, produces surfactant.
Secretes mixed function oxidase-containing granules into the lumen of the bronchioles.
What are the dangers of having Clara cells?
They are implicated in a number of pathogenic processes. They can create toxic metabolites and damage bronchiolar epithelium.
What are the viral infections that are known to predispose Cows to bacterial colonization and pneumonia?
BHV-1
PI-3
BRSV
What are the viral infections that are known to predispose Canines to bacterial colonization and pneumonia?
Canine distemper virus
What are the viral infections that are known to predispose Felines to bacterial colonization and pneumonia?
Feline herpesvirus
Feline calcivirus
How do toxic gases like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide impair respiratory defense systems?
They increase host vulnerability to bacterial colonization and pneumonia.
How does immunodeficiency impair respiratory defense systems?
Allows commensals and normally non-pathogenic microbes to become pathogens.
What are factors that may impair pulmonary defenses?
Viral-bacterial synergism in the lungs (BHV-1, PI-3, BRSV, Canine distemper, Feline herpesvirus & Calicivirus) Toxic gases (ammonia and hydrogen sulfide) Immunodeficiency *Uremia, endotoxima, dehydration, starvation, hypoxia, acidosis, pulmonary edema, anesthesia, ciliary dyskinesia and stress.
What is rhinitis/sinusitis?
Inflammation of the nasal mucosae and/or sinuses.
Normal flora help to out-compete pathogenic microbial colonization.
What are the potential sequela (consequences) of Rhinitis and Sinusitis?
Septal deviation, osteomyelitis, meningitis (cribiform plate), otitis media or interna infections (ear).
What are the exudate types that can be produced with rhinitis/sinusitis infections?
*What is the special descriptive term reserved for exudate of the respiratory tract mucosa?
*Catarrhal (exudate that forms on surfaces as an irregular layer of tan, viscous and necrotic material that is often mucopurulent).
Serous, fibrinous, catarrhal, purulent, caseous, and granulomatous.
What is Oestrus Ovis?
What species does it effect?
It is a nasal infestation. (URI)
Larvae of this fly develop in the nostrils of sheep (myiasis: larvae infestation); other hosts are rare.
Migration of the maggots in sinuses causes irritation and inflammation.
Mucopurulent rhinitis and sinusitis and obstruction.
What is cuterebra spp?
What species does it effect?
Infestation in rabbits, rodents and cats.
Migrations in the nasal cavity. (rarely the brain).
Equine influenza
What is the pathogenesis?
What are the symptoms?
*Is this a reportable disease?`
Viral infection, highly contagious, type A strain, self-limiting.
Serous nasal discharge, fever, conjunctivitis.
Infections with pneumonia suggest immunocompromised; bronchointerstial pneumonia complicated by ARDS on rare occasion.
*OIE notifiable disease, low morbidity and mortality but important in racing industry.
Equine viral rhinopneumonitis What is another name for this disease? What are the three common presentations? What is the source of infection? How is it spread (what transmission type?)
Equine herpes virus 1 and 4 (EHV 1,4)
1)Mild respiratory disease in foals (4-8 months)
2)Myeloencephalopathy (degenerative disease of the brain/spinal cord)
3)Mare abortions
Persistent carriers, both virus types can remain latent in trigeminal ganglia (a ganglion on the sensory root of the fifth cranial nerve), reoccur, and shed.
It is shed via aerogenous transmission.
Strangles
1) What is the causative agent?
2) What is the most common age group it effects?
3) Is it in normal nasal flora?
4) How is it spread initially (and what transmission type?)
5) What are the symptoms?
1) Streptococcus equi spp. equi
2) Young horses.
3) Not in normal nasal flora.
4) Aerogenous infection of the nasopharynx mucosa > lymphatic vessels > mandibular and retropharyngeal LN > superlative rhinitis and lymphadenitis. Some horses become carriers and continue to shed bacteria.
5) Cough, nasal discharge, conjunctivitis and swollen lymph nodes (heamtogenous spread is possible from here). Abscess formation in disseminated organs is potentially fatal (Bastard strangles).
What are the sequela (consequences) of an equine Strangles infection?
Bronchopneumonia.
Nerve compression (recurrent laryngeal/laryngeal hemiplegia; sympathetic nerve-facial paralysis and Horner syndrome (miosis (constricted pupil), partial ptosis (drooping upper eyelid) and loss of hemifacial sweating (anhidrosis).
Purpura hemorrhagica: strep equi antigen-ab complexes form in small vessels of the skin and mucosa.
Guttural pouch empyema (pus/fluid collection)
Abscess ruptures and fistulous (abnormal connections between two organs) tracts.
Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR)
1) Causative agent
1) Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1)
Porcine atrophic rhinitis
1) Causative agents (4)
2) Pathogenesis/symptoms?
Multi-pathogen lesion
Infectious
Bordetella bronchiseptica, pasturella multocidia, haemophilus parasuis, and porcine cytomegalovirus.
2) Infection causes sneezing and coughing, nasal discharge > increased osteoplastic activity and osteopenia > atrophy and loss of nasal conchae > septal deviation and facial deformity.
Bovine necrotic laryngitis
1) Causative agent?
2) Predisposing agents?
3) What are symptoms?
4) Possible outcomes?
Fusobacterium necrophorum
Infectious
2) Predisposing conditions: unsanitary housing, underlying disease or trauma, oral ulceration, nutritional deficiency, being on a feedlot.
3) Bilateral laryngeal ulcerations and necrotizing lesions. Promotion of extensive bacterial growth and release of endotoxins and exotoxins.
4) Endotoxemia/bacteremia > endotoxic/septic shock.
Laryngeal obstruction > asphyxiation
Aspiration > bronchopneumonia
Infectious laryngotrachetis (ILT) of Chickens 1)Pathogenesis
1) Stressed latent carriers shed herpes virus > aerosolized in environment > inhalation by naïve chickens > mild laryngitis to thick diphtheritic membranes and necrotic plugs > severe dyspnea, gasping, coughing.
* In photo the laryngeal lumen is occluded by fibrinonecrotic exudate.
Nasal polyp Description? Composition? Most common in..? Associated with chronic..?
Non-infectious
Benign, smooth, pedunculated.
Composed of inflammatory vascular stroma covered by squamous or psudostratified epithelium.
Cats (nasopharynx and Eustachian tube) - ear
Also seen in horses (ethmoid)
*Associated with chronic rhinitis and sinusitis.
Equine ethmoid hematoma
Neoplastic? Description?
Presentation/symptoms?
Pathogenesis?
Ethmoid (unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain)
Non-neoplastic, dark red, pedunculated mass extending from the mucosa of the ethmoid conchae.
Presents as unilateral nasal bleeding (epistaxis)
Pathogenesis unknown.
Laryngeal hemiplegia (paralysis)
What side/s does it usually effect? What muscles?
What are the causes?
Species specific causes?
Degenerative upper airway disease
Unilateral, usually left sided, atrophy of the muscles that abduct and adduct the arytenoid cartilages (doral and lateral cricoarytenoid muscles).
Caused by recurrent laryngeal neuropathy. Usually idiopathic, possible nerve trauma.
Dogs: Heritable in Siberian huskys and bouvier des flandres, degenerative in older dogs.
Horses: roaring may be a sequela of strangles, lymph node enlargement or abscesses compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve.