Muscles Degenerative - Pathology
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Degeneration
- 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, necrosis follows
- Vacuolation -> floccular degeneration -> granular degeneration -> hyaline and Zenker’s 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
White muscle disease
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
Porcine Stress Syndrome
Neuromuscular junction diseases
Aquired myasthenia gravis
- See congenital MG
Botulism
Circulatory disturbances
Muscle Congestion
Muscle Ischaemia
Trauma
- Due to:
- Direct transection of myofibres
- Compression of myofibres
- Secondary from haemorrhage (bruising)
- 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 regeneration
- Fibrosis (scarring) will compromise function
- During fractures, fragments may cause further trauma if moved