Key result
A 6 cm needle piercing the diaphragm caused fatal traumatic reticulopericarditis in a goat.
Why the study?
Traumatic reticulopericarditis in goats is a rare condition that requires detailed clinical and pathological description.
Case Report (n=1)
This case report describes the clinical and pathological findings of traumatic reticulopericarditis in a goat caused by a swallowed needle.
Alerts veterinarians to swallowed needle risks in goats; leaves open bacterial roles in traumatic pericarditis pathogenesis.
In this study, traumatic reticulopericarditis was described in goat. Clinically, animal exhibited poor body condition characterised by anaemia, dehydration, weakness and recumbency. At necropsy; ascites and fibrinous pericarditis were observed. There was hepatomegaly, cardiomegaly and fibrinous material in abdominal fluid. In the pericardial sac, fibrinopurulent fluid (fibrinous pericarditis) was observed. A 6 cm needle was found in reticulum piercing pericardium through diaphragm. Microbiological examination of pericardial fluid revealed E.coli and Streptococcus organisms.
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Naik et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Traumatic reticulopericarditis (n=1). Swallowed needle was evaluated on Death and necropsy findings. A 3-year-old female goat died from traumatic reticulopericarditis caused by a 6 cm needle piercing the pericardium through the diaphragm, with E. coli and Streptococcus isolated from the pericardial fluid.
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