Doctor of Veterinary Medicine MCQ Flashcards
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A 6-year-old male intact dog presents with fever, lethargy, and purulent preputial discharge. Ultrasound reveals a fluid-filled uterus. What is the diagnosis?
Answer: Pyometra
Although pyometra occurs in intact females, this question tests clinical reasoning — pyometra is a uterine infection in intact females presenting with uterine fluid accumulation and systemic illness.
Which nerve is at greatest risk during a standing flank laparotomy in cattle?
Answer: Iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal nerves
The iliohypogastric and ilioinguinal nerves run parallel to the flank incision and can be damaged, causing paralysis of the flank musculature.
A cat is presented with acute collapse, open-mouth breathing, and muffled heart sounds. Pleural effusion is confirmed. What is the most common underlying cause in cats?
Answer: Congestive heart failure (bilateral)
Bilateral congestive heart failure, most commonly due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in cats, is the most frequent cause of pleural effusion in this species.
During a necropsy, you observe 'paint-brush' hemorrhages on the heart's epicardium of a pig. Which systemic disease should be highest on your differential list?
Answer: African swine fever
African swine fever characteristically produces petechial to ecchymotic hemorrhages on the epicardium and other serosal surfaces, along with massive splenomegaly.
Which pharmacokinetic parameter describes the fraction of an administered drug that reaches systemic circulation unchanged?
Answer: Bioavailability
Bioavailability (F) is the fraction of the administered dose that reaches systemic circulation in unchanged form, important for non-IV routes of administration.
An avian patient shows green-stained urates and lethargy. Which organ system dysfunction is most likely indicated?
Answer: Hepatic disease (biliverdinuria)
Green urates (biliverdinuria) in birds indicate hepatic disease, as birds excrete biliverdin rather than bilirubin, and liver dysfunction causes biliary pigment to spill into urine.
Which spinal cord lesion localization is consistent with a dog showing normal thoracic limb function but spastic paraplegia and absent conscious proprioception in pelvic limbs?
Answer: T3-L3
A T3-L3 lesion produces an upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion of the pelvic limbs, causing spastic paresis/paralysis with intact thoracic limb function.