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Small Animal GI
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- 1How do you diagnose and treat myasthenia gravis?AChR antibody blood test
Pyridostigmine - 2What causes oesophageal stricture, and how are they treated?Sequalae of oesophagitis or FB
Balloon dilation and analgesia - 3What is the pathogenesis of vascular ring anomaly?When aorta develops from RIGHT aortic arch instead of left resulting in tethering of the oesphagus to the heart base by the ligamentum arteriosum
- 4What is the general treatment of oesophagitis?omeprazole, sucralfate, metoclopramide, analgesia
- 5When is endoscopy contraindicatedIn megaoesophagus (aspiration risk!)
- 6What characterises small intestinal d+?large volume, no urgency, malabsorption, weight loss, gas production
- 7What characterises large intestinal d+?small volume, increased frequency and urgency, tenesmus, dyschezia, blood / mucus
- 8What are signs of canine parvovirus?Haemorrhagic gastoenteritis
neutropenia
risk of sepsis - 9What is the usual presentation of canine coronavirus?in kennels
mild catarrhal d+ - 10What causes acute haemorrhagic diarrhoea syndrome ?Net F toxin
clostridium perfringens - 11How do you diagnose and treat giardia?faecal smear or zinc sulphae floatation
fenbendazole / metronidazole - 12Which 3 tests determine where protein is being lost in hypoalbuminaemia?BAST (liver)
UPC (kidney)
B12/Folate (intestine) - 13Where is B12 absorbed in the intestine?Ileum
- 14How would you treat megacolon?IVFT, laxatives, enemas
last resort = sub-total colonectomy (px good in cats) - 15What is the presentation for intussuception?3mo-1yo after parasites / FB / tumour / enteritis
- 16how would you surgically treat intussuception?manual reduction, resection and anastomosis, Enteroplication
- 17Why are large intestines bad for surgery?slow healing
segmental blood supply
high intraluminal pressure
high bacterial count - 18What does apomorphine do and what patient is it useful in?Emetic (dopamine agonist)
dogs (not cats) - 19What is misopristol?Synthetic PGE1, used in NSAID overdose or anticipated ulceration
- 20What causes EPI?Pancreatic acinar atrophy
- 21What breeds and age are predisposed to EPI?GSDS and collies
6m-5yo - 22What are the signs of EPI?weight loss, PP, greasy-grey faeces, v+d
- 23How do you dx EPI?TLI after 12h of fasting
low levels are diagnostic - 24How do you tx EPI?oral pancreatic extract
digestable and palatable diet (NOT LOW FAT)
cobalamin supplementation - 25What triggers acute pancreatitis?Hyperlipaemia caused by high fat diet, obesity, minature schauzers
blunt abdo trauma
hypoperfusion
drug related - 26How do you test for pancreatitis?PLI - monoclonal Ab test
- 27How do you tx acute pancreatitis?Fluids, nutritional support, control nausea, v, and pain
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- Undergraduate Veterinary Medicine Flashcards on Small Animal GI, created by E M on 22/05/2022.
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