PATHOMORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON HEPATIC AND RENAL DISORDERS IN SHEEP
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2019
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KARNATAKA VETERINARY, ANIMAL AND FISHERIES SCIENCES UNIVERSITY, BIDAR
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A total of 110 sheep mortalities were necropsied and only those organs showing abnormalities were noted, which included 105 liver, 102 kidney, 17 hepatic and 13 pre-renal lymph nodes. The most frequent lesions observed were congestion (73.33%) followed by cell swelling (23.81%), haemorrhage (21.90%), hydropic degeneration (18.09%), coagulative necrosis (18.09%), acute focal hepatitis (14.28%), fatty change (8.57%), biliary hyperplasia (6.67%), acute multifocal hepatitis (5.71%), chronic hepatitis (3.81%), thrombosis (0.95%) and hepatic abscess (0.95%) in liver in that order. Whereas, in kidneys, the most common lesions comprised congestion (67.65%), cell swelling (29.41%), coagulative necrosis (19.61%), haemorrhages (18.63%), hydropic degeneration (16.67%), focal interstitial nephritis (4.90%), multifocal interstitial nephritis (2.94%), glomerulonephritis (1.96%), hyaline degeneration (1.96%), fatty changes (0.98%), diffuse interstitial nephritis (0.98%), abscess (0.98%) and polycystic kidney (0.98%). In hepatic and pre-renal lymph nodes, incidence of pathological changes were 15.45 and 11.81 per cent. Among the affected nodes, frequent lesions were congestion followed by oedema, reactive hyperplasia, necrotic debris and discrete eosinophilic accumulations, and lymphoid depletion. Predominant lesions observed in Enterotoxaemia were congestion, followed by coagulative necrosis and acute hepatitis in liver. In kidney, congestion, necrosis and interstitial nephritis were observed. The hepatic and pre-renal lymph node lesions were congestion, lymphoid depletion and oedema. Similarly, in Mimosa diplotricha plant toxicity, haemorrhages, degenerative and necrotic changes in liver were seen, whereas in kidneys haemorrhages, hyaline degeneration and coagulative necrosis were observed. In both these cases, the associated lymph node lesions were congestion, necrotic debris accumulation and oedema in that order.