Abstract
© 2018 by the authors. A six-year-old female goat was presented to the veterinary teaching hospital of the University of the West Indies with a history of progressive hind-limb paresis lasting two weeks. The doe developed a grade 6/6 holosystolic murmur during hospitalisation. Echocardiography revealed vegetative growths attached to cusps of the mitral and aortic valves. Therewas an accelerated aortic flow at 2.9 m/s and aortic insufficiency. The aortic vegetation was prolapsing into the left ventricle during diastole, causing it to contact the septal mitral valve leaflet. A diagnosis of mitral and aortic vegetative endocarditis, with a mitral kissing vegetation and mild aortic stenosis, was reached. The patient was placed on broad-spectrum antimicrobials. A short-term follow-up showed no resolution of clinical signs, and the animal eventually died. Post-mortem examination showed severe vegetative, fibrino-necrotic, aortic and mitral valve lesions. The goat also had a severe fibrino-suppurative mastitis. Histopathology confirmed the lesions to be vegetative endocarditis.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 64 |
Journal | Veterinary Sciences |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Sep 2018 |
Keywords
- Aortic stenosis
- Caprine
- Echocardiography
- Infective endocarditis
- Left ventricular outflow tract
- Mastitis
- Mitral kissing vegetation
- Secondary mitral infection
- Valvular stenosis