Achy Breaky Heart
Type ("side") of CHF that causes pulmonary edema in dogs.
What is Left-Sided CHF?
A sign of megaesophagus: passive expulsion of material from the mouth, pharynx or esophagus.
What is regurgitation?
Two common blood values and one urine value that indicate Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)
increased BUN
increased creatinine
decreased urine specific gravity
(azotemia with lack of urine concentrating ability)
The toxic chemicals in chocolate
What are caffeine and theobromine?
(methlyxanthines)
A microorganism that causes kennel cough in dogs
What is Bordetella?
(or mycoplasma, CAV-2, parainfluenza)
Type of cardiomyopathy most common in dogs.
What is dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)?
Term for the black "tarry" stool often caused by GI ulcers in the stomach and small intestine.
What is "melena?"
(digested blood)
The cystic calculus common in alkaline urine often occurring with a bacterial cystitis. Dietary dissolution is a treatment option.
What is struvite?
(magnesium ammonium phosphate)
Causes severe hypoglycemia and /or liver failure.
What is Xylitol?
The organism that causes Lyme disease
What is Borrelia burgdoferi?
The most common degenerative AV valve disease in dogs.
What is mitral valve insufficiency?
(myxomatous mitral valve disease MMVD)
(mitral "regurg")
The substances secreted by the exocrine pancreas.
What are digestive enzymes - lipase and amylase?(also trypsinogen)
The urolith common in Dalmation dogs that lack certain hepatic and renal metabolic pathways
What is urate?
The means by which oleander causes fatalities
What are Cardiac glycosides?
(arrhythmias)
There is an antibody ELISA test for this feline disease
What is FIV?
A secondary hind limb condition of cats with undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)
("saddle thrombus")
Steatorrhea is a sign of this disease sometimes caused by chronic pancreatitis.
What is exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. (EPI)
The electrolyte that builds up during urinary obstruction and can lead to bradycardia or cardiac arrest
What is potassium?
What is hyperkalemia?
The chemical bait that causes generalized muscle tremors and hyperthermia - "shake and bake"
Metaldehyde - snail/slug bait
Negri bodies
What are brain cell inclusions that are diagnostic for rabies virus infection?
Congenital defect resulting in a "machinery murmur" heard over the main pulmonary artery in neonatal puppies.
What is Patent Ductus Arteriosus?
A serious disease of the overweight anorexic cat, can lead to liver failure.
What is hepatic lipidosis?
The drug used to treat urethral sphincter incompetence (leaking in spayed female dogs)
What is Phenylpropanolamine (Proin)
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning.
What is atropine?
What is 2-PAM?
An adverse effect of Canine Adenovirus-1 (Infectious Canine Hepatitis). Occurs with natural disease or vaccination.
What is "blue eye"?
(anterior uveitis)