Mitral kissing vegetation and acquired aortic valve stenosis secondary to infectious endocarditis in a goat with suppurative mastitis
Watson, Antonio (University of the West Indies. Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences)
Sookram, Vade (University of the West Indies. Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences)
Driscoll, Marc (University of the West Indies. Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences)
Morris, Michael (University of the West Indies. Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences)
Suepaul, Rod (University of the West Indies. School of Veterinary Medicine)
López-Alvarez, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Hospital Clínic Veterinari)
Corradini, Ignacio (Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU. Hospital Clínico Veterinario)

Fecha:	2018
Resumen:	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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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicado en:	Veterinary Sciences, Vol. 5 Núm. 3 (january 2018) , p. 64, ISSN 2306-7381

DOI: 10.3390/vetsci5030064
PMID: 29996509

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