Nordisk veterinaermedicin
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Nordisk veterinaermedicin · Jan 1983
ReviewAdult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Incidence, clinical findings, pathomorphology and pathogenesis. A review.
Acute and progressive respiratory distress ("shock lung") is a well known and feared complication in human patients with a variety of underlying disorders, even though the lungs are not involved primarily. In spite of the fact that dogs, and other animals, very often have been used in experimental models studying this syndrome, "shock lungs" have not received much attention in veterinary medicine. ⋯ Animals in shock, particularly if complicated with sepsis, are prone to develop progressive respiratory distress. This paper reviews the current knowledge about the clinical picture, pathology and pathogenesis of acute respiratory disease, with main emphasize on the pathogenetic mechanism.
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Nordisk veterinaermedicin · Jun 1976
Acid-base measurements of arterial, venous and capillary blood in the dog.
A method of arterial blood sampling acceptable for clinical purposes for acid-base estimations in dogs is described. A comparison of acid-base variables from fourteen canine arterial, venous and capillary blood samples revealed in most cases that venous and capillary blood samples showed unsatisfactory agreement with corresponding arterial blood samples. Two commercial automatic pH and blood-gas analysing systems are compared.
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Nordisk veterinaermedicin · Feb 1976
Streptococcal infections in sucking pigs. 1. Epidemiological investigations.
The investigation comprises 5,811 litters and 55,641 liveborn pigs. Among the pigs which died before weaning, infection with haemolytic streptococci (HS) was determined in 1,338. This corresponds to 2.4 per cent of the liveborn pigs (Table I). ⋯ Preliminary investigations on the source of infection and the pathogenesis are reported (Tables XII and XIII). In two herds, 8 of 10 sows carried HS on mucosal surfaces at the time of farrowing, and in 6 of 10 examined litters, HS bacteraemias were observed in pigs during the first days of life. Furthermore, an analysis showed that part of the sowa (109) lost pigs with HS infections in several (2-6) subsequent litters (Tables XIV) and XV).