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FlashCards por sportycanine, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por sportycanine
quase 11 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| What are the main general causes of weight loss? | Muscle atrophy, inappropriate caloric intake, palatability of diet, or systemic problem. |
| What is the normal caloric requirement for small animals? | Approximately 40-60 kcal/kg; lower in large dogs, higher in small dogs/cats |
| How are weight loss problems divided into categories? | Weight loss with decreased appetite; Weight loss with normal/increased appetite |
| What are some reasons why a pet cannot eat? | pre-hension difficulties; painful mouth: dental disease; dysphagia: inflammation, ulceration, FBs, neoplasia |
| What are some reasons for true anorexia in SAs? | Primary CNS; Secondary CNS: toxins, pyrexia, electrolyte disturbance, hepatic disease, neoplasia, psychic factors |
| What is maldigestion and what are its causes? | Maldigestion: inability to digest food consumed, mainly due to loss of enzymes; Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, secondary enzyme deficiency, deficient bile acid, or loss of brush border enzymes |
| What is malabsorption and what are its causes? | Malabsorption: inability to absorb digested nutrients; Primary GI disease: infiltrative disease of gut wall - IBD, lymphangiectasia, GI lymphoma, bacterial overgrowth, dry FIP; Secondary GI: hepatic disease, RS heart disease, hyperthyroidism |
| What is malutilisation and what are its causes? | Malutilisation: inability of the body to utilise absorbed nutrients; diabetes mellitus, congestive heart failure, dirofilariosis, neoplasia, hyperthyroidism, hepatic?, renal? |
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