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==Degeneration==
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[[Image:Degenerate muscle fibres.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Degenerate muscle fibres (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
 
 
 
*Different types of degeneration
 
*May, or may not, be reversible
 
*Cloudy swelling, hydropic, vacuolar, granular and fatty change
 
*Occur following many different types of insult and are usually '''segmental'''
 
*If regeneration does not occur after formation of small vacuoles, [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|necrosis]] follows
 
**Vacuolation -> floccular degeneration -> granular degeneration -> [[Hyaline Degeneration|hyaline]] and [[Zenker Degeneration - Pathology|Zenker’s degeneration]]
 
*[[Hydropic Degeneration#Vacuolar Degeneration|'''Vacuolar degeneration''']]:
 
**Due to swelling of organelles or due to glycogen or fat accumulation
 
**May be caused by hypokalaemia, hyperkalaemia or necrosis
 
*Histologically:
 
**Swollen
 
**Hypereosinophilic
 
**Lost cross striations
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Muscle Calcification]]===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Muscle Ossification]]===
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Muscle Pigmentation]]===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==[[Muscle Necrosis]]==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==[[Muscle Atrophy]]==
 
 
 
 
 
==[[Toxic Myopathy]]==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==[[Endocrine Myopathy]]==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==Nutritional myopathy==
 
[[Image:White muscle disease.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>White muscle disease (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
 
[[Image:White muscle disease histo.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>White muscle disease (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
 
===[[White Muscle Disease - Pathology|White muscle disease]]===
 
*Very important economic disease of sheep, cattle and pig
 
*Caused by:
 
**Deficiency of selenium, vitamin E or both
 
**Exacerbated by rapid growth, unaccustomed exercise or other dietary factor
 
*Pathogenesis:
 
**Oxygen free radicals (OFR) can damage cell membranes
 
**Vitamin E usually mops up OFRs
 
**Selenium as part of glutathione peroxidase neutralises effects of OFRs
 
**If Vit E or Se are deficient -> the balance shifts to membrane damage, calcium entry and mitochondrial damage -> cell swells and dies -> segmental muscle [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|necrosis]]
 
*Grossly:
 
**Lesions are bilaterally symmetrical in hard working muscles (vary with species)
 
**Early lesions are pale areas and streaks
 
***Difficult to see especially in pale muscles
 
**Later becoming calcified necrotic areas
 
***More obvious
 
**Pigs also have lesions in their [[Hyaline Degeneration|heart]] and [[Liver Fibrosis#Hepatosis dietica|liver]]
 
*Histologically:
 
**[[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|Segmental necrosis]] +/- [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Calcification|calcification]] and [[Muscle Regeneration|regeneration]]
 
**Multifocal and multiphasic lesions
 
 
 
 
 
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==Exertional myopathies==
 
 
 
*Caused by intensive and exhaustive activity of major muscle masses
 
*Glycogen used up -> local heat and lactic acid -> muscle degeneration
 
*Other forms include '''capture myopathy''', racing greyhounds, sheep chased by dogs
 
 
 
 
 
===Equine rhabdomyolysis===
 
 
 
*'''Azoturia''' (Monday morning disease)
 
**Acute
 
**Due to exercise following a prolonged period of rest
 
**Clincal signs:
 
***Unable to move
 
***Sweating
 
***Tremors
 
***Swollen and hard lumbar, gluteal and femoral muscles
 
**Myoglobin leaks from muscle cells -> leaks into urine -> urine is dark red/brown (myoglobinuria) -> damages renal tubules
 
**Grossly:
 
***Salmon pink muscles -> dark, moist, swollen +/- pale streaks
 
**Histologically:
 
***Segmental myofibre [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|necrosis]]
 
****Multifocal and monophasic, but may be multiphasic if repeated bouts
 
***Both, type IIA and IIB fibres affected; type IIB preferentially affected in acute disease
 
***Minor inflammatory reaction and calcification
 
 
 
*'''Tying-up'''
 
**Similar to azoturia but much milder
 
**Grossly - normal muscle
 
**Histologically - same as azoturia
 
 
 
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===[[Porcine Stress Syndrome]]===
 
 
 
 
 
==Neuromuscular junction diseases==
 
 
 
===Aquired myasthenia gravis===
 
 
 
*See [[Myasthenia Gravis|congenital MG]]
 
 
 
 
 
===Botulism===
 
 
 
*Caused by:
 
**Ingestion of ''[[Clostridium botulinum]]'' toxin which inhibits acetyl choline release
 
*Diagnosis by demonstration of toxin in faeces, ingested material or serum
 
 
 
 
 
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==Circulatory disturbances==
 
 
 
===Congestion===
 
 
 
*Localised or generalised stasis -> dark red muscle
 
*E.g. in ruminal tympany ([[Bloat|bloat]]) - congestion of muscles cranial to thoracic inlet
 
*May resemble haemorhage grossly
 
 
 
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===Ischaemia===
 
 
 
*Firstly [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|segmental necrosis]]
 
*-> death of satellite cells
 
**Causes [[Muscle Regeneration|regeneration]] but myoblast precursors have to be recruited from viable fibres
 
*-> death of all cells
 
*Mostly healed by fibrosis and scar formation
 
*May attempt regeneration by [[Muscle Regeneration|budding]]
 
Main causes:
 
*'''Vascular occlusion'''
 
**Infarction from embolism is rare due to collateral circulation
 
**Extension of infarcts depends on size of vessels occluded
 
***Small capillaries -> segmental [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|necrosis]]
 
***Large arteries -> whole muscle areas, including sattelite cells, are killed
 
**Healed by fibrosis
 
**May be due to:
 
***Blockage of iliac arteries by aortic-iliac thrombosis in horses
 
***Blockage of aortic bifurcation in cats
 
***[[Dirofilaria immitis|''Dirofilaria immitis'']] arteritis in dogs
 
***Vasculitis due to [[Reoviridae#Bluetongue Virus|bluetongue virus]] in sheep
 
***[[Haemorrhage#Purpura haemorrhagica|'''Equine purpura haemorrhagica''']]
 
****Non-contagious, sporadic
 
****Grossly:
 
*****Subcutaneous oedema
 
*****Scattered haemorrhagic foci throughout skin and muscles
 
*****Vasculitis -> infarcts of muscles
 
****May cause myoglobinuria if extensive
 
****Possibly immune mediated
 
****In horses post [[:Category:Streptococcus species|streptococal]] infection, especially [[Respiratory Bacterial Infections - Pathology#Strangles|strangles]]
 
*'''External pressure'''
 
**During prolonged recumbency, e.g. anaesthesia, inability to rise, or due to too tightly fitting bandages or casts
 
**Post anaesthesia myopathy especially in horses
 
***Dorsal recumbancy -> gluteals and longissimus ischaemia
 
***Lateral recumbancy -> triceps brachii, pectoralis, deltoideus and brachiocephalicus ischaemia
 
**Caused by pressure on muscle > perfusion pressure of capillaries
 
**Downer cows - vetral recumbency -> ischaemia of pectoral muscles and muscles of limbs tucked under the animal
 
**Pregnant ewes with twins or triplets -> internal abdominal oblique muscle ischaemic necrosis -> potential rupture
 
*'''Muscle swelling''' where it cannot expand
 
**E.g. supracoracoid muscle infarction in some breeds of turkeys after flapping their wings
 
***Surrounded by inelastic fascial sheath and bone
 
 
 
 
 
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==Trauma==
 
 
 
*Due to:
 
**Direct transection of myofibres
 
**Compression of myofibres
 
**Secondary from haemorrhage (bruising)
 
***May increase muscle pressure -> [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Ischaemia|ischaemia]] -> [[Muscles Degenerative - Pathology#Necrosis|necrosis]]
 
**Partial rupture - ''e.g.'' of diaphragm in road traffic accident
 
**Complete rupture - ''e.g.'' quadriceps of racing greyhounds
 
**Myorrhexis (tearing) - ''e.g.'' slippery floor causing 'splits' in cattle -> adductor muscle tear
 
*Healing is by [[Muscle Regeneration|regeneration]]
 
*Fibrosis (scarring) will compromise function
 
*During [[Bones Fractures - Pathology|fractures]], fragments may cause further trauma if moved
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 18:20, 3 March 2011