Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification
A 1-year-old male meerkat was found dead by the owner. The animal was clinically healthy and was regularly vaccinated for distemper virus. Necropsy revealed multifocal to confluent dry white areas in the myocardium, pneumonia and congestive hepatopathy. All the other organs, including gross vessels,...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:9eaafe0872f145dc816be6b6ffd0bd65 2023-05-15T15:04:26+02:00 Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification Laura Bongiovann Nicola Di Girolamo Leonardo Della Salda Marcella Massimi Mariarita Romanucci Paolo Selleri 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.01.009 https://doaj.org/article/9eaafe0872f145dc816be6b6ffd0bd65 EN eng Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S222116911530900X https://doaj.org/toc/2221-1691 2221-1691 doi:10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.01.009 https://doaj.org/article/9eaafe0872f145dc816be6b6ffd0bd65 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 357-359 (2016) Meerkat Suricata suricatta Arterial calcification Myocardial calcification Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjtb.2016.01.009 2022-12-31T15:00:57Z A 1-year-old male meerkat was found dead by the owner. The animal was clinically healthy and was regularly vaccinated for distemper virus. Necropsy revealed multifocal to confluent dry white areas in the myocardium, pneumonia and congestive hepatopathy. All the other organs, including gross vessels, were macroscopically normal. The heart showed histologically large, multifocal to confluent areas of mineralization of the myocardium and the wall of small coronary artery. Vascular calcifications were also observed in the hepatic portal tracts and kidneys arteries of small/medium sizes. The arterial lumen appeared narrowed and the wall thickened due to the calcification of the tunica media. In veterinary medicine, arterial mineralization is regarded as a metastatic calcification, as the result of hypercalcemia and/or hyperphosphatemia. However, today, the pathogenesis of medial artery calcification in humans seems to be the results of an active process resembling embryonic osteogenesis, rather than a mere passive process. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 6 4 357 359 |
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A 1-year-old male meerkat was found dead by the owner. The animal was clinically healthy and was regularly vaccinated for distemper virus. Necropsy revealed multifocal to confluent dry white areas in the myocardium, pneumonia and congestive hepatopathy. All the other organs, including gross vessels, were macroscopically normal. The heart showed histologically large, multifocal to confluent areas of mineralization of the myocardium and the wall of small coronary artery. Vascular calcifications were also observed in the hepatic portal tracts and kidneys arteries of small/medium sizes. The arterial lumen appeared narrowed and the wall thickened due to the calcification of the tunica media. In veterinary medicine, arterial mineralization is regarded as a metastatic calcification, as the result of hypercalcemia and/or hyperphosphatemia. However, today, the pathogenesis of medial artery calcification in humans seems to be the results of an active process resembling embryonic osteogenesis, rather than a mere passive process. |
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Laura Bongiovann Nicola Di Girolamo Leonardo Della Salda Marcella Massimi Mariarita Romanucci Paolo Selleri |
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Laura Bongiovann Nicola Di Girolamo Leonardo Della Salda Marcella Massimi Mariarita Romanucci Paolo Selleri |
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Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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Sudden death in a captive meerkat (Suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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sudden death in a captive meerkat (suricata suricatta) with arterial medial and myocardial calcification |
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