From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-03-02 19:04:12 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Black Lung
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Lipid Pneumonia (non ferret refs but the "fatty lung" description
and my recollection that in some cultures giving oils for some
respiratory symptoms is part of their nutritional anthropology
customs led me to look):
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG026.html
In
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG027.html
notice
BEGIN QUOTE
This is the microscopic appearance of an exogenous lipid
pneumonia in which lipid vacuoles appear, mainly along
airways, accompanied by an inflammatory response that
can contain foreign body giant cells. The term exogenous
refers to the origin of the lipid material outside the body.
This material is aspirated into the bronchial tree.
END QUOTE
(Question: did someone syringe feed this ferret?)
Here is another cause (human):
http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/LUNGHTML/LUNG125.html
BEGIN QUOTE
This is the microscopic appearance of an endogenous lipid
pneumonia in which numerous foamy lipid laden macrophages
are present in alveolar spaces. The term endogenous refers to
the origin of the lipid material from breakdown of lung and blood,
usually distal to the site of an obstructive process (such as a
neoplasm, an inhaled foreign body, or bronchiectasis). The
macrophages collect to ingest the lipid material.
END QUOTE
There are photos there one one mycobacterial disease (tuberculosis)
in a human lung that caused granulomatous disease of the lung, and
the note that several fungal diseases: histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis,
coccidioidomycosis can cause the same appearance in human lungs.
There is more there which might be of interest.
Lipid pneumonia and obstructive pulmonary disease in cats:
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10800516&dopt=Abstract>
and
http://www.jaaha.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/4/275
>From nematodes in opossums:
http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/24/2/214.pdf
In a dog from aspiration:
<http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1740-8261.1994.tb02041.x?
journalCode=vru>
>From lymphosarcoma in a bear:
http://www.vetsci.org/2001/pdf/143.pdf
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