Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparisonFox, Herbert
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Disease in captive wild mammals and birds : $b incidence, description, comparison
Fox, Herbert
Veterinary medicine
Ungulata are normally well supplied with definite interlobular strands
which, in a few varieties, completely encircle the lobule but always
show as clear fibrous septa going out from the portal areas. This
richness of connective tissue renders more difficult a decision of
increase so that unequivocal degenerations and regenerations with
inflammatory changes have been demanded as criteria for cirrhosis. It
has been recognized that cattle get a definite increase in their
interstitial tissue without serious reaction in the parenchyma. With the
knowledge of these facts in mind it has been possible to detect two
distinct portal cirrhoses, two biliary cirrhoses and three perilobular
fibroses. It is however evident by examining the rest of the autopsy
notes that the chronic inflammations have had with one exception, little
influence on the animal’s life and death and the associated pathology is
not instructive in etiology. One old deer with the definite portal type
had ascites and intestinal hyperemia which hastened his end.
The type of cirrhosis in the marsupial is progressively inflammatory and
of the biliary variety. In two of the three cases there was active
infection somewhere in the body, one a long continued streptothricosis,
the other and more important a choledochitis with involvement of the
pancreatic head. The third case showed a nephritis and a
pericholedochitis and pericholecystitis. In all three there was definite
evidence of biliary obstruction within the liver and in the occurrence
of general jaundice.
Monkeys have presented one portal, two biliary, and one perilobular
cirrhoses. The London Garden reports a cirrhosis with gall stones in a
Chimpanzee. The case of the Barbary Ape is so good that it is quoted in
brief.
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