Laryngeal chondritis as a differential for upper airway diseases in German sheep
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...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7057637 2023-05-15T16:49:17+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 2020-03-04 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057637/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32131871 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 en eng BioMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7057637/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32131871 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. CC0 PDM CC-BY Case Report Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1186/s13028-020-0510-0 2020-03-15T01:48:36Z 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. Text Iceland PubMed Central (PMC) New Zealand Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 62 1 |
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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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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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