I. Diseases of the bone marrow 1. Severe combined immunodeficiency disease 2. Myeloid necrosis 3. Myelodysplasia 4. Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia 5. Neoplasia 6. Bone marrow biopsy II. Diseases of circulating blood…

I. Liver 1. Hemodynamic changes a. Lobar atrophy b. Portosystemic shunt c. Chronic congestive heart failure d. Focal ischemia 2. Metabolic, necrotic, and toxic diseases a. Lipidosis b. Amyloidosis c….

I. Heart 1. Congenital cardiovascular anomalies a. Ventricular septal defect b. Common truncus arteriosus c. Patent ductus arteriosus d. Vascular ring anomaly and megaesophagus 2. Pericardial diseases 3. Myocardial diseases…

I. Eyes 1. Congenital ocular diseases 2. Degenerative ocular diseases 3. Inflammatory ocular diseases 4. Neoplastic ocular diseases II. Ears 1. Inflammatory otic diseases 2. Nonneoplastic and neoplastic proliferative otic…

I. Kidney 1. Abnormalities 2. Circulatory disturbances a. Hemorrhage b. Infarcts 3. Metabolic disturbances 4. Inflammatory and infectious diseases 5. Necrosis/degeneration 6. Renolithiasis 7. Neoplasia II. Lower urinary tract 1….

I. Genetic muscle disorders 1. Glycogen branching enzyme deficiency 2. Polysaccharide storage myopathy 3. Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis 4. Malignant hyperthermia 5. Recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis II. Myotonic myopathy III. Dietary and…

I. Pituitary gland II. Thyroid gland III. Adrenal gland This chapter covers pathologic changes affecting the pituitary gland, thyroid glands, and adrenal glands. Parathyroids, the endocrine pancreas, and gonads are…

I. General considerations II. Techniques 1. Positioning, examining, and opening of the carcass 2. Evisceration of the abdominal, pelvic, and thoracic organs a. Cranial mesenteric artery 3. Removal of the…