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| What is the alternate name for lead toxicosis in the human world? |
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| What are the common sources of lead in small animal cases? |
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-lead paint
-plumbing material
-old linoleum
-leaded gasoline
-improperly glazed red bowls
-soil near smelters |
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| What is the common source of lead with psittacine birds? |
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| What are the common sources of lead in large animal cases? |
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-bateries
-roofling felt
-motor oil from egines
-lead paint
-lead smelters
-lead mine tailings
-old plumging
-eat anything in a dump |
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| What is the most common source of lead for water fowl? |
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| -eat lead shot or lead sinkers |
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| What is the most common toxin in cattle? |
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| Are young or old more susceptible to lead toxicity? |
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| What is special about Picher, OK? |
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-most toxic town in OK
-evacuated for lead and Zinc mining |
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| What is the most common route of exposure to lead toxicty? |
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| Does lead cross the placenta? |
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| In cattle, where in the digestive tract do lead objects frequently settle out? |
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| Lead affects multiple tissues, especially which two? |
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| What are the major cytology changes seen in dogs with lead toxicity? Does it also occur in cows? |
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-nucleated RBCs and inc numbers of basophilic stippling
-NO, ONLY IN DOGS |
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| What 5 enzymes/enzymatic processes are inhibited by lead? |
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-ALAD
-ALAS
-Caprogenase
-Heme synthetase
-Union of heme with globin |
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| What are the three most common causes of blindness in cattle? |
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-lead
-polio
-water deprivation |
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| What are the two most common toxins found in Psittacine birds? |
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| What kinds of clinical signs predominate in the cow with lead toxicity? Examples? |
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-CNS
-blindness, circling, rhythmic head bobbing, ear twitching |
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| What clinical signs predominate in the horse with lead paralysis? |
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| -laryngeal paresis, heave lines with water regurgitation |
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| What kinds of clinical signs predominate in the dog with lead toxicity? Examples? |
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-GI signs
-anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, etc |
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| What are the clinical signs of lead toxicity in waterfowl? |
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| -tenting of wings with stained vent |
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| What lesion is characteristic of lead toxicity in dogs? |
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-esophageal dilatation
-with the basophilic stippling & nRBCs |
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| Which species of animal is resistant to lead toxicity? |
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| Death occurs in about ___% of animals with clinical signs of lead toxicity. |
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| What lesions are characteristic of lead toxicity on necropsy? |
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| What sample do you take from a live animal to diagnose lead toxicity? |
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| -whole blood in a EDTA tube |
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| Lead is carried on the red cell with ___& of circulating lead bound to erythrocytes. |
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| What diagnostically can be done with the live animal to confirm lead toxicity? |
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-abdominal rads to find stuff in reticulum of ruminants
-rads of epiphyseal plate to lood for lead line in dogs |
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| What samples do you send in to diagnose lead toxicity in a dead animal? |
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| HOw do you treat a large animal with lead toxicty? |
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| -Ca EDTA +/- thiamine +/- seizure control |
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| How do you treat a small animal with lead toxicity? |
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| -DMSA Succimer +/- thiamine +/- seizure control |
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| What are the common sources of mercury? |
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-termometers
-barometers
-dental amalgum used for fillings
-used in crude gold mining techniques
-fungicide treated seed grains
-polluted watersheds |
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| What is the principle tissue form of mercury in egs? |
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| In addition to ingestion, how else can an animal get mercury toxicity? |
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| Are swine more commonly poisoned with lead or mercury? |
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| Which species is sensitive to environmental mercury, especially methyl mercury in seafood? |
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