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Exam 1
Pericardial & Endocardial Dz
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Veterinary Medicine
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01/19/2017

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Definition: Hydropericardium
Definition
-water in pericardium
Term
Definition: Hemopericardium
Definition
-blood in pericardium
Term
What can cause hemopericardium?
Definition
-rupture of great vessels
-intracardiac injections
-cancer: hemangiosarcoma, eart base neoplasia, mesothelioma
-idiopathic pericardial hemorrhagic effusion (large breed dogs)-bread and butter heart
Term
What is the common name for fibrinous pericarditis?
Definition
-bread and butter heart
Term
IF the patient has fibrinous pericarditis, what mostly happened?
Definition
-hematogenous infection
Term
How is suppuative pericarditis caused?
Definition
-direct penetration or bloodstream
Term
What is cardiac tamponade?
Definition
-compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac
Term
Does cardiac tamponade mess with systole or diastole?
Definition
-diastole
Term
What is serous atrophy of fat?
Definition
-lack of epicardial fat atAV junction and groove is gelatinous, amber, translucent as an indicator of severe cacehexia
Term
What are some of the endocardial diseases?
Definition
-subendocardial mineralization
-uremia
-chronic disease in cattle
-chronic inflamation
-rodenticides (calciferols)
Term
What is the diffuse distribution of subendocardial fibrosis? What is the localized distribution?
Definition
-chronic chamber dilation
-jet lesions
Term
Definition: Endocardiosis
Definition
-degenerative valvular lesions of dogs
-usually incidental finding and common
Term
Definition: Endocarditis
Definition
-inflammatory of the endocardium, whether mural or valvular
-this is a serious problem
Term
What features of endocardiosis distinguishes from endocarditis?
Definition
-thickening is smooth, moist, glistening, and not scrape-off-able b/c tissue is messed up tissue inside the stroma, gray-ish tan, not always significant
Term
What are the two types of endocarditis?
Definition
-vulvular or mural
Term
Which locations are most common for endocarditis?
Definition
-LAV> aortic > RAV > pulmonic
-except cattle where RAV is most common
Term
Which features of endocarditis distinguishes from endocardiosis?
Definition
-build up a inflammatory, necrotic debris that is irregular, gross, corrugated, vegetative, dull, dry, crumbly and can be removed from valve, always significant
Term
True or False: Bacterial endocarditis animals must be septicemic.
Definition
-TRUE
Term
True or False: Endocarditis is a low pressure lesion.
Definition
-FALSE, it is a high pressure lesion
Term
What are the prerequisetes of bacterial endocarditis?
Definition
-bacteremia
-/+ predisposing valvular damage
Term
Which bacteria is particularly bad at adhering to the valve and causing bacterial endocarditis?
Definition
-Erysipelothrix
Term
What is mural endocarditis?
Definition
-extension to the wall from valvular lesion
Term
What causes ulcerative mural endocarditis in cattle? Dogs?
Definition
-Cattle: blackleg, usually right-sided
-Dogs: uremia, usually LA
Term
What is the other name for myxomatous valvular degeneration?
Definition
-endocaridiosis
Term
Which animals are affected by clinical myxomatous valvular degeneration?
Definition
-toy and small breed dogs
Term
Which locations does myxomatous valvular degeneration occur?
Definition
-LAV >> RAV >>>> Aortic/pulmonic
Term
Which dog breeds inherit myxomatous valvular degeneration?
Definition
-Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and Dachshunds
Term
Does myxomatous valvular degeneration cause left or right heart failure?
Definition
-left heart failure
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