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Mitral kissing vegetation and acquired aortic valve stenosis secondary to infectious endocarditis in a goat with suppurative mastitis


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Title: Mitral kissing vegetation and acquired aortic valve stenosis secondary to infectious endocarditis in a goat with suppurative mastitis
Authors : Watson, Antonio
Sookram, Vade
Driscoll, Marc
Morris, Michael
Suepaul, Rod
López Álvarez, Jordi
Corradini, Ignacio
Keywords: Endocarditis bacteriana.Goats - Heart - Diseases.Infective endocarditis.Válvulas cardíacas - Enfermedades.Stenosis.Heart valves - Diseases.Cabras - Corazón - Enfermedades.Estenosis.
Publisher: MDPI.
Citation: Watson, A., Sookram, V., Driscoll, M., Morris, M., Suepaul, R., López-Alvarez, J. & Corradini, I. (2018). Mitral kissing vegetation and acquired aortic valve stenosis secondary to infectious endocarditis in a goat with suppurative mastitis. Veterinary Sciences, vol. 5, n. 3, art. 64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci5030064
Abstract: 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.
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10637/10476
Rights : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
ISSN: 2306-7381
Issue Date: 10-Jul-2018
Center : Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
Appears in Collections:Dpto. Medicina y Cirugía Animal





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