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Volume 22 (12):1125-1136, 2018.
Gross morphology and types of pneumonia found at
necropsy in 70 horses over 10 years of practice.
Moaddab
H¹, Siavosh Haghighi ZM²*, Tavanaeimanesh H³
¹Department
of clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi
University, Kermanshah, 2Department of Basic Sciences and Pathobiology,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi University,
Kermanshah, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, University of Tehran, Iran
ABSTRACT
Moaddab H, Siavosh Haghighi
ZM, Tavanaeimanesh H., Gross morphology and types of pneumonia found at necropsy in 70 horses
over 10 years of practice, 22 (12):1125-1136, 2018. We recorded gross necropsy
findings in 70 horses between 2007-2017 exhibiting respiratory distress,
labored breathing, cough, nasal discharge, or euthanized due to overwhelming
respiratory failure. Those showing primary gross lesions in the lower
respiratory system were diagnosed with pneumonia. Of these, ~57% appeared bronchial,
30% interstitial, 10% embolic and ~3% granulomatous. Exudate textures appeared ~51%
purulent, 10% fibrino purulent and ~6% fibrinous.
However, 33% horses had no exudate. We found hemorrhagic pneumonias in 50% horses,
edema in 37%, abscesses in ~44%, emphysema in 33%, bronchiectasis in 16% and pleuritic
in 17%. Lungs appeared sequestered in 4.28% and ~17% with adhesions and fibrosis
(10%). The findings (%) are depicted in graphs.
Keywords: Equine, lung lesions,
pneumonia, morphology.
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