Incomplete Cervical Dilatation in Animals – an Update

Cervical dilatation is a key event for successful vaginal delivery of young ones that occur just before parturition. Failure of cervical dilatation due to alterations in cervical ripening mechanism or insufficient uterine contraction poses problems in delivery of fetus. Cervical ripening is a multifactorial process which is an outcome of hormonal regulation, inflammatory process and enzymatic breakdown of collagen. Whenever there are alterations in above mechanisms, animal may be affected with cervical dilatation failure. For the management of cervical dilatation failure, a number of hormones have been used but they have shown limited success and in field conditions; caesarean section is only available best tool for management. In this article we focused on the process of cervical dilatation and management of incomplete cervical dilatation at field conditions.