Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep
Abstract Background Ovine laryngeal chondritis is a rare entity of sheep in the USA, Great Britain, New Zealand and Iceland, but has not been reported in Germany so far. Here, two German cases are reported. Case presentation Two rams showed severe and progressive signs of dyspnea. Endoscopically, a...
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crspringernat:10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 2023-05-15T16:49:21+02:00 Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep Reineking, Wencke Punsmann, Teresa Maria Wagener, Matthias Gerhard Verspohl, Jutta Ganter, Martin Baumgärtner, Wolfgang Puff, Christina 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica volume 62, issue 1 ISSN 1751-0147 General Veterinary General Medicine journal-article 2020 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 2022-01-04T15:38:04Z Abstract Background Ovine laryngeal chondritis is a rare entity of sheep in the USA, Great Britain, New Zealand and Iceland, but has not been reported in Germany so far. Here, two German cases are reported. Case presentation Two rams showed severe and progressive signs of dyspnea. Endoscopically, a severe bilateral swelling of the larynx was identified in both rams. Due to poor prognosis and progression of clinical signs one ram was euthanized, while the other ram died overnight. In both cases, a necrosuppurative laryngitis and chondritis of arytenoid cartilages was found at necropsy. Fusobacterium necrophorum and Streptococcus ovis were isolated from the laryngeal lesion in one animal. Conclusions This is the first report of ovine laryngeal chondritis in continental Europe. This entity should be considered a differential diagnosis for upper airway disease in sheep. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Springer Nature (via Crossref) New Zealand Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 62 1 |
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Abstract Background Ovine laryngeal chondritis is a rare entity of sheep in the USA, Great Britain, New Zealand and Iceland, but has not been reported in Germany so far. Here, two German cases are reported. Case presentation Two rams showed severe and progressive signs of dyspnea. Endoscopically, a severe bilateral swelling of the larynx was identified in both rams. Due to poor prognosis and progression of clinical signs one ram was euthanized, while the other ram died overnight. In both cases, a necrosuppurative laryngitis and chondritis of arytenoid cartilages was found at necropsy. Fusobacterium necrophorum and Streptococcus ovis were isolated from the laryngeal lesion in one animal. Conclusions This is the first report of ovine laryngeal chondritis in continental Europe. This entity should be considered a differential diagnosis for upper airway disease in sheep. |
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Reineking, Wencke Punsmann, Teresa Maria Wagener, Matthias Gerhard Verspohl, Jutta Ganter, Martin Baumgärtner, Wolfgang Puff, Christina |
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Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep |
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Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep |
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Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep |
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Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep |
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Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep |
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