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
Toxic nephritis is a term applied when the kidney is the seat of
epithelial degeneration, much congestion, perhaps leading to tiny
hemorrhages, and definite swelling of the tuft without exudation into
the capsular space. It is a severe grade of the degenerations already
mentioned and is exemplified by the organ in cases of acute duodenitis
of ungulates and in some monkeys dying after tuberculin injection. It
seems especially to follow gastrointestinal diseases believed to be due
to food intoxications. It seems important in monkeys and wild rodents.
No adequate explanation is at hand for the latter.
As has already been stated vascular disease was present in twenty-six
cases in a manner suggesting some relation to the cardiorenal complex
but the only organ to which the term renal sclerosis of arteriosclerotic
origin could be applied is that of an eagle; the autopsy is cited.
Bald Eagle (_Haliæetus leucocephalus_). ♀ General obliterating
endoarteritis. Chronic interstitial nephritis. Passive congestion of
liver. Chronic localized myocarditis. Near the apex of the heart the
muscle shows a slight opacity. The kidney is enlarged, firm, section
surface glistening. Both section and surface show a mottled brown and
white appearance, following particularly on section the division into
cortices and medullæ. Digestive system apparently normal. Microscopic
section of heart muscle from the wall of the ventricle shows well
preserved muscle fibres with a slightly unusual degree of
pigmentation. Section from valve base shows a definite interfascicular
and intrafascicular fibrosis which is co-extensive with a similar
thickening of the endo- and pericardium. The new tissue under the
latter is edematous. The valve itself is thickened the fibres swollen
and hyaline. There is no reduplication of the endothelium. One artery
in the muscle is obliterated. This is not associated with any
degeneration of the muscle in the section. Section of kidney shows the
pale areas noted grossly to be made up of groups of arteries with
their extensive coalescing adventitiæ. The changes in the arteries are
precisely the same as those seen in the liver but are more extensive.
Connective tissue goes out from the arteries into the parenchyma
distorting the tubules and enclosing the glomeruli so that the capsule
of the latter is much thickened. Epithelium is granular, in some
places absent, nearly always low. Section of liver shows general
parenchyma practically normal with slight granularity in places and
moderate passive congestion. Veins are negative but arteries show a
general arteritis. The picture varies somewhat in different arteries
ranging from a simple thickening of the adventitia to a change
involving all three layers. There is hyaline change in the media in
many sections. Lumen is in all cases reduced and in some there is
active intimal proliferation in excess of what would be expected in
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