Clinical and laboratory investigation on the recurrence of the umbilical hernia after herniorrhaphy in bovine calves

Abstract

This study was performed to investigate the recurrence of the umbilical hernia in bovine calves at Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh. A total of 34 animals were admitted to VTH diagnosed to have the umbilical hernia, among them 13 were recurrent cases. The diagnosis of umbilical hernia was based on the disease history, clinical signs, palpation, needle exploration, and auscultation. The risk factors like age, sex, breed, body weight, the season of affection, size of the hernial ring, suture materials, error in suture patterns and involvement of infections in the recurrence were considered. Infected samples were collected from recurrent patients with infected umbilicus region, and subjected to bacteriological analysis. We found the recurrence percentage was higher in the crossbred (44%) than that in the indigenous (22.22%) calves. It was also observed that recurrence percentage was higher in male (42.11%) than those in female (33.33%) patients. The recurrence percentage was also higher in calves aged below three months (40.74%) than the calves of above three months (28.57%). It was found that recurrence percentage was most frequent in summer (46.15%) and the least in the winter (30%). Among 13 recurrent bovine calves after herniorrhaphy, three calves returned to VTH with umbilical abscess, six calves recurred due to non-infectious causes like failure of suture materials, errors in suture pattern or management fault and 4 calves recurred with both umbilical abscess and non-infectious causes. From this study, it may be concluded that synthetic absorbable suture materials with secured suture pattern and good postoperative management may help in reducing the recurrence of an umbilical hernia.
 J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 16(3): 464–470, December 2018

Exploring bacterial pathogens and risk factors associated with the occurrence of navel ill in calves

“…According to Blood and Radostits (1989), bacteria commonly involved include E. coli, Streptococcus spp., Staphylococcus spp., Actinomyces (Corynebacterium) pyogenes and other soil and fecal contaminants. A wide range of opportunistic bacteria were found in samples taken from the umbilical lesions (Jaman et al, 2018).…”

“…In Bangladesh, several studies have been conducted in calves with neonatal diseases and their recurrence such as Schistosomus reflexus infection and umbilical hernia while on the other hand only few works about the healing of navel ill have been arranged and very few of these studies were mostly confined to revealing the prevalence of the disease (Hoda et. al., 2018;Jaman et al, 2018;Mishra et al, 2020). Therefore, the present research work has been implemented to harvest an incidence data of calves diagnosed with navel ill-treated at Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh and belonging to a decade between 2009-2018 in order to explore the bacterial pathogens and risk factors responsible for the occurrence of the disease.…”

Healing potentials of Marigold flower (Tagetes erecta) on full thickness dermal wound in caprine model

“…The tubes were taken to the laboratory to culture and counting of viable bacteria. For this purpose, the spread method was used Swab collection, culture, and staining of collected bacteriological samples were done by following the method described by Jaman et al [8].…”

Evisceration of umbilical content with extensive adhesion: A surgical approach

“…The evisceration of the intestine may occur spontaneously after gradual worsening of the hernia and thinning of the wall, or it may be abruptly caused by trauma or sudden straining 1 . With the timely surgical intervention and proper hygienic management of umbilical hernia, the outcome is generally good, otherwise recurrence or secondary infections may be seen as the chance of bacterial infection is high in male calves because of their anatomical structures 2,3 …”