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What are the components of the upper respiratory tract?

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nasal cavity, sinuses, nasopharynx, larynx, and trachea

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What is the mucosa of the upper respiratory tract composed of?

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ciliated, pseudostratified columnar epithelium, goblet cells, and submucosal glands

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What is the function of the mucosa in the respiratory tract?

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generates, maintains, and moves mucus bilayer of the mucociliary apparatus

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What are the primary functions for the upper respiratory tract?

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warm and humidify air, cleanse air, initial defense against pathogens, conduct air to lower respiratory tract

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How does the upper respiratory tract condition/clean air?

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warm and humidify air, remove particulates, antigen sampling

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What is the ‘design’ of the upper respiratory tract and what does it allow for?

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large surface area for increased contact, moist surface for humidification, highly vascularized for heat exchange, cause turbulence for mixing of air, extensive network of dendritic cells for capturing invading organisms

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What allows the upper respiratory tract to move air efficiently?

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the smooth, straight, large diameter tube that is the trachea (and bronchi)

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What happen when a foreign particle enters the respiratory tract?

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Turbulence shoots it into the mucus bilayer where it is remobed by coughing, sneezing, or the mucociliary bilayer

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What are the components of the mucociliary escalator?

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surface mucus (the lower liquid layer and the more viscous gel layer) and cilia

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How does the mucociliary escalator work?

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mucus coats the surface, inspired particles become trapped in the mucus, cilia sweeps mucus towards the throat, mucus is swallowed, many infectious agents are destroyed in the stomach

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What is primary ciliary dyskinesia?

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when the cilia are not functioning properly in the mucociliary escalator

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When do clinical signs associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia become apparent?

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2-12 weeks of age

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What clinical signs are associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia?

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nasal discharge and a rattling, raspy or snorkeling sound when the animal breathes

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What complications are associated with primary ciliary dyskinesia?

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fluids/mucus and pathogens are not effectlively cleared making affected animals very susceptible to bacterial infections

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How can primary ciliary dyskinesia be misdiagnosed as?

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bronchitis, bronchiectasis, and bronchopneumonia

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What is the role of the microflora in the respiratory tract?

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it competes for attachment sites, stimulates immunity, and induces production of innate defense factors

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What are the bronchi and bronchioles made up of?

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ciliated, columnar epithelium, with goblet cells, +/- submucosal glands

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What are the terminal and respiratory bronchioles made up of?

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simple non-ciliated cuboidal epithelium - no glands

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What is the alveoli made up of?

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simple flattened epithelium, cuboidal epithelium, and alveolar macrophages

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What do the cuboidal epithelium of the alveoli produce?

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surfactant

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What is the function of the alveoli?

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gas exchand and acid base balance

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What occurs to the cilia in the cold and therefore to mucus?

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the cilia become sluggish or stop and mucus thickens

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What does heat, low humidity, and dehydration do to mucus?

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it dries it out resulting in decreased mucus clearance

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What can lead to a decreased immune response in the respiratory tract?

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immunodeficiency disorders and viruses

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What can cause airway epithelial damage?
air pollutants, chemicals, viruses, and bacteria
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What is the most costly disease of beef cattle?
bovine shipping fever
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What causes bovine shipping fever (disease not agent)?
a bacterial pneumonia
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The bacteria in the respiratory tract are typically opportunists. What allows them to cause shipping fever?
environmental and management factors that interfere with the respiratory defenses allowing the resident bacteria to cause disease
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What are considered the 'ultimate' causes of bovine shipping fever?
stress, dust/ammonia, viruses
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How does stress lead to bovine shipping fever?
stress leads to increased corticosteroid levels and thus immunosuppresion
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How does dust/ammonia lead to bovine shipping fever?
it decreasses mucociliary clearance
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How do IBR, PI3, and BRSV lead to bovine shipping fever?
they decrease mucociliary clearance and alter innate immunity (decrease TLR expression and defensins)
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How does BVDV lead to bovine shipping fever?
it supresses alveolar macrophage function and causes a sustained neutropenia
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What does CIRD stand for?
Canine Infectious Respiratory Disease
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What does BRDC stand for?
Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex
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What does PRDC stand for?
Porcine Respiratory Disease complex
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Environmental factors + upper respiratory virus = ?
predisposition to bacterial bronchopneumonia
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How does the upper respiratory tract respond to mild acute injury due to an inhaled agent?
acute inflammation: hyperemia and serous exudate (contains IgM and IgG)
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How does the upper respiratory tract respond to severe acute injury?
acute inflammation with epithelial necrosis: ulceration and adherent fibrinonecrotic membrane
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What two things result from chronic injury to the upper respiratory tract?
chronic inflammation and squamous metaplasia
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What is chronic inflammation characterized as in the upper respiratory tract?
goblet cell and mucous gland hyperplasia which produces a thick, mucoid exudate
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What is squamous metaplasia characterized as in the upper respiratory tract?
loss of mucocilliary apparatus (no cilia), mucosal drying (no goblet cells), and microflora changes
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What are some expected clinical signs of infectious upper respiratory tract disease?
nasal discharge and sneezing, runny eyes (conjunctivitis), and cough and fever
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What are some potential consequences of infectious upper respiratory tract disease?
a negative impact on the mucociliary apparatus, diminished conditioning of the air, decreased mucosal defense mechanisms, and increased access to lungs by particulate material
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What does IBR stand for?
infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
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What are the common herpesviral infections in cattle, horses, cats, and pigs?
IBR, equine rhinopneumonitis, feline viral rhinotracheitis, pseudorabies (PRV - swine)
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What classic lesions does equine rhinopneumonitis cause?
mild, necrotizing rhinitis, tracheitis, and bronchiolitis
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What is equine rhinopneumonitis caused by?
EHV-1 and EHV-4
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What classic lesions does feline viral rhinotracheitis cause?
mucopurulent and ulcerative rhinitis and tracheitis
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What can lower respiratory tract injury cause in the airways?
bronchitis/bronchiolitis, bronchiectasis, and bronchiolitis obliterans
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What can lower respiratory tract injury cause in the alveoli?
atelectasis, edema, bronchopneumonia, and emphysema
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What can lower respiratory tract injury cause in the interstitium?
interstitial pneumonia
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What is the pathogenesis of necrotizing bronchitis/bronchiolitis?
pathogen induced necrosis of the ariway epithelial cells leads to mucociliary dysfunction
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What are the causes of necrotizing bronchitis/bronchiolitis?
IBR, BRSV, SIV, Herpes, and Histophilus somni
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What is degenerative bronchitis/bronchiolitis characterized by?
decreased function of the airway epithelial cells
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What causes degenerative bronchitis/bronchiolitis?
Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Bordatella bronchiseptica (K9)
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What clinical signs are associated with bronchitis/bronchiolitis?
cough (productive), fever and chills, labored breathing (wheezing), and depression
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What is the pathogenesis of complete repair to injury to the bronchi/bronchioles?
1. degeneration/necrosis with loss of epithelial cells covering the basement membrane 2. transient inflammation 3. epithelial cell mitosis with cell proliferation 4. complete repair
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What can result from partial/complete airway obstruction?
bronchiolitis obliterans, atelectasis, emphysema, bronchiecstasis
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What is ectasia?
dilation or distention of a tubular structure
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What is bronchiectasis?
permanent, abnormal dilation of bronchi
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What causes bronchiectasis?
prolonged inflammation
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What is the pathogenesis of bronchiectasis?
1. severe suppurative bronchitis 2. neutrophil lysosomal enzymes weaken/destroy bronchial wall 3. dilated, mucus-filled airway with diminished mucociliary clearance
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What is the pathogenesis of bronchiolitis obliterans?
1. bronchiolar injury 2. loss of lining epithelium + lumen filled with fibrinous to suppurative exudate 3. fibroblasts migrate in and organize exuate 4. partial or complete airway obliteration by fibrous connective tissue
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What does partial, valve-like obstruction lead to?
over-inflation (emphysema)
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What does complete obstruction of the airways lead to?
atelectasis (alveolar collapse)
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What does obstruction that interferes with clearance of the airways lead to?
a preadisposition to bronchopneumonia
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What is atelectasis?
alveolar collapse
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What is atelectasis neonatorum?
failure of a newborns lung to expand
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What can cause atelectasis?
lack of pulmonary surfactant, reduce inspiratory force, obstruction, and compressive (influences within the chest cavity)
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What population of animals is reduceed inspiratory force common in?
weak neonates
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What are some influences in the chest cavity that can lead to compressive atelectasis?
thoracic effusions and pneumothorax
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What does atelectasis look and feel like grossly?
a well demarcated dull red color, the lung is depressed or shrunken compared to surrounding inflated lung with a spongy texture
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True or False: When squeezing an atalectic lung you will get fluir or exudate expressed from airways
FALSE
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What does atelectasis look like microscopically?
the alveoli are compressed into slits
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What is pulmonary edema?
fluid accumulation in the air spaces and/or parenchyma of the lung
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What can cause diffuse pulmonary edema?
increased capillary hydrostatic pressure due to left sided heart failure (most common) and low plasma protein oncotic pressure
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What can cause non-diffuse pulmonary edema?
increased capillary permeability and obstruction of lymphatic drainage
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How does pulmonary edema appear grossly?
The lungs are slightly more red (than in atelectasis), heavy and sligtly swollen. Fluid will ooze from cut surfaces. Clear gluid can distend into the interlobular septae. Frothy fluid will be in the airways and the trachea.
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How does pulmonary ededma appear microscopically?
hypocellular amorphus eosinophilic fluid in the alveoli
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In balloon terms, what is a normal lung?
a balloon filled with air - very light and no material released when popped
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In balloon terms, what is a lung with diffuse pulmonary edema?
a water balloon - much heavier than a normal lung, fluid leaks out of airways when popped
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In balloon terms, what is a lung with atelectais?
a sad, old balloon that lost all of its air - the surface may become wrinkled
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What is bronchopneumonia?
inflammation of the lung in which exudate accumulates primarily in the bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli
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What is bronchopneumonia most often caused by (general)?
inhaled infectious agents that localize at the bronchiole/alveolar junction
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What is emphysema?
an abnormal accumulation of air in the lung
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What causes emphysema?
obstruction - air is allowed in but not allowed out
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What is alveolar emphysema characterized by?
distension and rupture of alveolar walls - the lungs feel crepitus when palpated
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What is bullous emphysema?
if an alveolar lesion becomes confluent and forms a large pocket (greater than 1cm in diameter)
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What is interstitial emphysema characterized as?
air ruptures into the interlobar septa
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When does interstitial emphysema typically happen in cattle?
in concurrence with respiratory distress or as part of the agonal process because they lack collateral ventilation, have wide interlobular septae, and are prone to developing this lesion

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