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Ultrasonographic features of the reticulum in normal and hardware
diseased buffaloes
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Mohamed B Mostafa1, Ashraf M Abu-Seida1*, Ahmed M
Abdelaal2, Oday S Al-Abbadi3 and Salah F Abbas3 |
1Department
of Surgery, Anesthesiology & Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; 2Animal Medicine Department,
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University; 3Ministry
of Agriculture, Iraq
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Abstract |
The aim of this study was to investigate the ultrasonographic reticular
features in normal and hardware diseased buffaloes. The study was
conducted on 20 apparently normal and 85 hardware diseased buffaloes.
Transcutaneous ultrasonography was performed in standing buffaloes
without sedation.
The area from 6th to 8th intercostal space was
examined with a
3.5-5 MHz convex
transducer. The ventral aspect of the thorax on the left and right of
the sternum as well as the left and right lateral thorax up to the level
of elbow were examined.
Buffaloes with local peritonitis, abdominal and thoracic abscesses,
traumatic pericarditis and pleuropnemonia exhibited significantly lower
frequency of reticular contractions
than the control.
There was a significant increase of reticular thickness between
buffaloes with traumatic pericarditis,
local peritonitis, abdominal and thoracic abscesses
and normal buffaloes.
The distance between reticulum and abdominal wall was significantly
higher in hardware diseased than normal buffaloes.
There was a significant difference
in
the durations
of 1st,
2nd
and total
reticular contractions
and
the relaxation period were significantly longer in buffaloes with
traumatic pericarditis (except the 1st. contraction), local
peritonitis, abdominal and thoracic abscesses than healthy buffaloes.
Buffaloes with traumatic pericarditis, local peritonitis, abdominal and
thoracic abscesses had significantly lower amplitude of 1st
reticular contraction than the normal buffaloes.
Buffaloes with all recorded complications
of hardware disease had significantly lower
amplitude of 2nd reticular contraction than healthy buffaloes.
In conclusion, ultrasonography provides exact information concerning the
reticular features in the various complications of hardware disease in
buffaloes.
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Keywords:
Buffaloes; reticular contraction; reticular relaxation; reticular
thickness; sharp foreign body syndrome |
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To cite this article:
Mostafa MB, AM Abu-Seida, AM Abdelaal, OS Al-Abbadi and SF
Abbas,
2015.
Ultrasonographic features of the reticulum in normal and hardware
diseased buffaloes.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 5(4): 165-171. |
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