Category: Urinary

𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, as the name suggests, is a toxicity that comes from eating the leaves of the red maple tree. Specifically, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 leaves like those found after a hard frost, or falling off of pruned or fallen tree limbs.

𝐃𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 is the largest parasitic 𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐞 (roundworm) in our veterinary species. The female worms can measure up to 100cm long! As their name might suggest, they like to sit in and around the kidneys.

𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐜𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, or PKD, is an inherited disease of kidney development where multiple large 𝐜𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐬 (fluid filled structures with a lining) form within the kidney.

𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 is essentially what it sounds like, having too much copper in the body. There are two basic forms, 𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, where the body is delivered a large amount of copper over a short period of time, and 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲, where there are consistently high levels of copper, but not enough to induce acute toxicity.

𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐬-𝟏 is a virus in the family Herpesviridae, which is the same family as human herpesvirus! As you might have guessed by the name, this disease affects canids, like our pet dogs.

𝐔𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐬 is the presence of 𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐢 (stones, basically) in the urinary passages, typically in the bladder or urethra. You can also get calculi in the kidney, called 𝐧𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐬, as part of the same disease process. The stones are made up of precipitated urine contents, proteins and debris, which clump together and can obstruct normal flow of urine.

𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is when the blood supply to a tissue is blocked, causing that tissue to die. Infarcts in the kidney are somewhat unique because of their characteristic shape: each vessel in the kidney supplies a wedge shaped section of tissue, so when an infarct occurs, only that wedge of kidney is affected. So when you look at the kidney 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐥𝐲 (without a microscope) you are able to see distinctive wedge shapes of infarcted tissue!