Echocardiographic findings of tricuspid blood cyst mimicking bacterial endocarditis in a dairy cow

Buczinski, Sébastien; Badillo, Mauricio; Belanger, Anne-Marie; Rezakhani, A

doi:10.1016/j.jvc.2011.09.001

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“…It detected endocarditis in 20/21 cases in cattle (Healy 1996); a meta-analysis of 460 cases of bovine bacterial endocarditis ascribed it a sensitivity of 84.3 per cent and a specificity of 92.7 per cent (Buczinski and others 2012). There are other (rarer) causes of disruption of the normal echoarchitecture of the cardiac valves which may be confused with endocarditis on echocardiogram, such as blood cysts (Buczinski and others 2011). Ultrasonographic examination in a previous case of ovine vegetative endocarditis detected pericardial and peritoneal effusions but did not allow detection of the valvular lesions (Scott and Sargison 2001).…”

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Endocarditis and ventricular wall abscessation in a vasectomised Herdwick ram

Crilly

Morrison

Scott

2015

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A four-year-old vasectomised Herdwick ram presented with a two-day history of inappetence, lethargy, weakness and exercise intolerance. Clinical examination revealed mild tachypnoea and hyperpnoea and marked tachycardia and pallor. No anaemia was present. Thoracic ultrasonography revealed thickening of the right ventricular wall and increased pericardial and peritoneal fluid. A diagnosis of congestive heart failure was made and the animal was euthanased. Necropsy revealed a subendocardial abscess adjacent to the right atrioventricular valve, the leaflets of which were distorted. The gross appearance of this lesion is similar to that described for valvular ring abscesses in human beings. BACKGROUND

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