Background and Aim: Dairy cow mortality and culling are important parameters reflecting on cow health, productivity, and welfare as well as important determinants of herd sustainability, growth, and profitability. There are no published reports on the causes and rates of mortality and culling of...

The objective of the present study was to evaluate the clinical, haemato-biochemical, radiographical and ultrasonographic changes in cattle and buffaloes suffering from foreign body induced reticular affections and pericarditis. The study was conducted in a total of 24 clinical cases of cattle and...

The objective of this study was to simultaneously evaluate biomarkers in the blood and peritoneal fluid (PF) of cattle with intestinal diseases (GI n=14) and traumatic reticulitis (GII n=13). A clinical examination and blood collection and PF were performed and subsequently, physical and...

Foreign body syndrome in bovine species has been increasing in incidence. This can result in three conditions. Traumatic reticulitis could be successfully treated by performing rumenotomy in four animals. Potential foreign bodies crossed the reticular wall and pierced the internal structures like...

Diaphragmatic reticular hernia was diagnosed in a seven year old cow during necropsy examination. Clinically, cow showed decreased appetite, progressive weakness, intermittent fever, jugular pulse, lethargy, recurrent bloat and arching of back from one month. The clinical signs aggravated and cow...

A three-year-old Holstein-Friesian cow presented at University College Dublin Veterinary Hospital with clinical signs of chronic weight loss, abnormal stance, slight arching of the back and increased left cranioventral lung sounds. Traumatic reticulitis, following the ingestion of a foreign body,...

The aim of this study is to introduce abscess on left thoracic wall of cattle as less common complication of traumatic reticulitis and finding the best way for diagnosing them. For a period of two years, 75 cases were confirmed suffering from traumatic reticulitis, five cows with thoracic abscess...

The use of naso-gastric magnetic tube for the removal of metallic foreign bodies in the reticulum of cows diagnosed with traumatic reticulitis was investigated. 30 cows of different with breeds and ages and diagnosed with traumatic reticulitis by clinical, radiographical and ultrasonographic...

In veterinary medicine, abdominal ultrasound in cattle for gastrointestinal diseases is not widely used in Romania. The limitation of this investigation technique is a determined by the co-operation of the animal, the time required for a complete examination, the impossibility of carrying out prior ...

Traumatic reticuloperitonitis (TRP), familiarly known as 'hardware' or 'tyre-wire' disease, is a well-documented condition in veterinary literature. Although a range of clinical signs is described, these in general are associated with symptoms attributable to chronic pathology with an infectious...