Efficacy of Abdominal Ultrasonography for Differentiation of Gastrointestinal Diseases in Calves.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the clinical efficacy of abdominal ultrasonography for abomasal dilation in three calves, intestinal volvulus in five calves, intussusception in one calf, and internal hernia in one calf. In the abdominal ultrasonograms of the abomasal dilation cases, this disease was commonly characterized by severely extended lumens, including heterogeneously hyperechoic ingesta without intraluminal accumulations of gas. In the animals with intestinal volvulus and intussusception, a to-and-fro flow was observed to be a common ultrasonographic characteristic that led to suspicion of an intestinal obstruction. The use of abdominal ultrasonography for five cases with intestinal volvulus gave no reason to suspect this disease, despite its efficacy in one case, based on an acutely angl

SUBMITTER: Yoshimura N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9558495 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature