Buczinski Sébastien, Badillo Mauricio, Bélanger Anne-Marie, Rezakhani Ali
Clinique ambulatoire bovine, Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Saint-Hyacinthe, Université de Montréal, QC, Canada.
J Vet Cardiol. 2011 Dec;13(4):283-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jvc.2011.09.001. Epub 2011 Oct 22.
The most common endocardial disease in cattle is bacterial endocarditis. The diagnosis of the disease in living animals is mainly based on clinical findings and echocardiographic detection of an irregularly thickened valve. Despite its presumed good sensitivity, little is known on the specificity of transthoracic echocardiography with regards to endocarditis. This case report describes the echocardiographic findings in a dairy cow diagnosed with a chronic inflammatory process, liver and splenic abscesses and tricuspid valve blood cysts that can be mistaken for bacterial endocarditis, thus emphasizing the need to improve antemortem diagnostic tools for endocarditis in cattle.
牛最常见的心内膜疾病是细菌性心内膜炎。活体动物的该病诊断主要基于临床症状以及通过超声心动图检测到瓣膜不规则增厚。尽管经胸超声心动图一般认为具有良好的敏感性，但对于心内膜炎的特异性了解甚少。本病例报告描述了一头奶牛的超声心动图检查结果，该奶牛被诊断患有慢性炎症、肝脾脓肿以及三尖瓣血囊肿，这些情况可能被误诊为细菌性心内膜炎，从而强调了改进牛心内膜炎生前诊断工具的必要性。
