Abstract
Within a 24-hour period, 7 out of 200 three- to four-week-old pastured Katahdin lambs died after showing clinical signs of hemoglobinuria, red-tinged feces, weakness, and recumbency. One of the lambs that was examined clinically before natural death also had abdominal pain, trembling, tachycardia, and severe anemia with a packed cell volume of 4%. Pathologic findings included icterus, hemoglobinuric nephrosis, dark red urine, pulmonary edema, hydrothorax, splenomegaly, and acute centrilobular to midzonal hepatocellular degeneration and necrosis with cholestasis. The differential diagnoses and diagnostic workup to achieve the diagnosis are briefly discussed.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 624-627 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Veterinary Pathology |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2014 |
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Keywords
- alpha toxin
- Clostridium perfringens type D
- hemoglobinuria
- icterus
- yellow lamb disease
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- veterinary(all)
- Medicine(all)
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Diagnostic Exercise : Hemolysis and Sudden Death in Lambs. / Giannitti, F.; Rioseco, M. Macias; García, J. P.; Beingesser, J.; Woods, Leslie; Puschner, Birgit; Uzal, Francisco A.
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