The monitoring of intestinal oxygen saturation by means of a pulse oximeter is routinely applied in human medicine during surgery of the gastrointestinal tract to evaluate the disturbance of perfusion and assess tissue viability. To some extent, this technique has been applied in veterinary medicine. The purpose of this study was to test the technique in cattle and to describe the influence of ...

s: Dennison A, Plampin E, Ellis R, Van Metre D, et al (2001). Correlation of Clostridium perfringens a toxin activity and disease severity in isolates from cows with hemorrhagic bowel syndrome (abstract). Proceedings, 82nd Annual Meeting, Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases, 108. Dennison A, Van Metre D, Callan R, Mason G, et al (2002). Hemorrhagic bowel syndrome of adult cattle; ...

a 4-year-old female native goat with the history of inappetence and no defecation was referred to the department of clinical sciences, school of veterinary medicine of shiraz, shiraz, southern iran. during exploratory laparotomy, pyloric obstruction and displacement of the abomasum to the left side was observed. obstruction of pylorus was due to a ball-shaped phytobezoar. the goat was followed ...

This study was designed to investigate causes of culling in industrial dairy herds in Fars province and to describe the pattern of reason-specific culling with respect to age of animal and interval from calving to culling. A total number of 9 dairy herds were selected for the study and information about culling reasons, birth date, last calving date and culling date was collected for culled cow...

To clarify the pathophysiology of left displaced abomasum (LDA), beef cattle fed high-starch diets were examined. The abomasal pH in beef cattle with LDA was lower than that in non-LDA reference animals (data from beef cattle at an abattoir), suggesting that it facilitated acidity. Bacteriological examinations of the abomasal fluid in cattle with LDA revealed the presence of Pseudomonas spp., C...