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Volume 22 (12):1119-1124, 2018.
Congenital bilateral defect of ureters in a foal.
Moaddab SH¹, Siavosh
Haghighi ZM², Rahimi Feyli P¹, Afshari Safavi E¹, Ghashghaii A¹.
Department(s) of clinical sciences¹
and pathobiology²,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran
ABSTRACT
Moaddab SH, Siavosh Haghighi
ZM, Rahimi Feyli P, Afshari Safavi E, Ghashghaii A., Congenital
bilateral defect of ureters in a foal, Onl J Vet
Res., 22 (12):1119-1124,
2018. An
11- day- old Arabian colt was admitted to the veterinary teaching hospital with
chief compliant of generalized weakness, moderate muscle fasciculations
and progressive abdominal distention. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a
large hypoechoic area compatible with liquid in the abdomen, believed to be
caused by uroperitoneum. Serum biochemical analysis
revealed the foal suffured from hyponatremia,
hypochloremia, hyperkalemia and azotemia. Creatinine concentration of the
peritoneal fluid was 9.6 mg/dlit and the peritoneal
fluid to plasma creatinine ratio was 2.83, confirming a diagnosis of uroperitoneum. An exploratory laparotomy was performed to
investigate the cause of the uroperitoneum. Based on
the surgical exploration, a diagnosis of bilateral ureteral defects was made.
According to histopathologic findings at margins of the lesions, such as fibrin
deposits and presence of neutrophils, traumatic insults have been accounted for
the utreteral defects in this foal.
Keywords:
Foal, Ureteral defect, uroperitoneum.
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