Beta
378776

SERUM HEPATITIS (THEILER'S DISEASES) IN ANTITETANIC SERA PRODUCING HORSES 33 CLINICAL CASES

Article

Last updated: 23 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

Veterinary medicine / clinical pathology

Abstract

The medical records of 33 horses aged between 3.5 and 9 years suffering from serum hepatitis were reviewed. Serum hepatitis in horses was clinically manifested by mental depression related signs in most of the affected horses including dullness, depression, lethargy, compulsive walk, and hyporeflexia. Other cases showed mental irritation related signs including hyperexcitability, muscle tremors and convulsions. The majority of horses were completely anorexic, enduring acute abdominal pain. The clinical examination revealed congested mucus membranes, tachypnea, tachycardia, abdominal distention and photosensitization. The blood picture revealed anemia, leukocytosis, and neutrophilia with regenerative shit left shift. Serum biochemistry revealed hypopreteinemia, hypoalbuminemia, hypoglycemia and increased activity of serum aspertate aminotranferase, Gama glutamyle transferase, alkaline phosphatase, increased total bilirubin and increased prothrombin time. All horses were treated with non-sterooidal anti inflammatory; 24 of which reccived as well corticosteroids. Special care were also trialed, including lactated ringers, dextrose 5% solutions, and neomycin. To control the nervous signs Xylazine was indicated. Most of the horses were treated for more than 5 days. Fifteen out of the 33 examined horses rapidly died few hours from the onset of the clinical signs, while nine were euthanatized shortly before death because of their deteriorated condition. The postmortem examination of the fifteen horses revealed ruptured liver capsule, severe internal hemorrhages and friable liver parenchyma, theother nine cases showed hepatomegally without rupture of the liver capsule. The histopathological examination of the liver tissues showed massive subcapsular hemorrhages with granulation tissue

DOI

10.21608/vmjg.2007.378776

Authors

First Name

M

Last Name

EL-HANAFY

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Vet. Med., Dept. of Internal Medicine and Infectious Discases,

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

55

Article Issue

4

Related Issue

50238

Issue Date

2007-10-01

Receive Date

2024-09-08

Publish Date

2007-10-01

Page Start

981

Page End

990

Print ISSN

1110-1423

Online ISSN

2537-1045

Link

https://vmjg.journals.ekb.eg/article_378776.html

Detail API

https://vmjg.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=378776

Order

378,776

Type

Original Article

Type Code

544

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Veterinary Medical Journal (Giza)

Publication Link

https://vmjg.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

SERUM HEPATITIS (THEILER'S DISEASES) IN ANTITETANIC SERA PRODUCING HORSES 33 CLINICAL CASES

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024