Pregnant Ewe ventral hernia case report in East Azerbaijan-Tabriz, Iran 2013 Amirali Kaveh1*, Hesam Nassirpour2, Neda Razavi3, Masoumeh Nassirpour4, Alireza Isazedeh5, Saba HajAzimian6, Hosein Tayyari7 1.
Department of Clinical Sciences, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Department of Veterinary Medicine, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Department of Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran Department of Science, Faculty of Mathematics, Tabriz Branch, Payam-e-Noor University, Tabriz Iran 5. Department of Biology, Bonab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bonab, Iran 6. Department of Biology, Maragheh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Maraghe, Iran 7. Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran *Corresponding author’s email:
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ABSTRACT Sheep and goat are checked by vets for variety of hernia .one of its common type is ventral hernia. It created, as the abdominal wall damaged. The area of this may occur in up or down side of, also alongside of rib arc or between the latest ribs[1,3]. This type engendered by extreme force such as impact, pressure of the blunts, but sometimes for the presence of high pulling of Abs.[1,4]. Keywords: Hernia, Ventral Hernia, ribs, blunt, Abs. Introduction In winter 2013, one ewe was reported for ventral turgidity (photo 1). After checkup and its record, it known as ventral hernia. For the first time of pregnancy and last period of delivering, the gravid uterus and its contents (embryo and fetal fluids) entangled inside the hernia and natural delivery was impossible, the treatment was under surgery operation.
Photo1: Ewe affected with big ventral hernia. Surgical operation For 24hrs.beforesurgicaloperation, off-feed program given to ewe and the operation was under sterile.
Scrubbing the area of surgery, the local anesthesia was by Lidocaine injection, and then the animal laid side down hernia position. After checking up, the fetus was delivered by caesarean method through ventral to uterus, the uterus stitched by restorable suture, and featured to the womb with hernia loop and the hernia loop before stitching cleared and the area in which the wall affected with sticking, by enucleating the wall sticking eliminated and then stitched by absorbable suture, the extra amount at skin was cut, then the ventral also stitched by no absorbable suture. At this operation, animal anesthesia was ignored for high risk of it, Lidocaine an aesthesia Gentamicin 10cc for prevention of In-Flammarion on surgery area, and Penicillin 30,000 IU-kg also for prevention infection inside the body were used for 5 days. After operation, the veterinary cares considered and vet followed up the ewe by telephone and in presence.
Photo2: Stitched Ewe uterus after caesarean method. Conclusion Regarding to the period of pregnant ewe in which was during tater time and the hernia contents was gravid uterus, so the cause of the hernia is the pressure inside the abdomen, and infirmity of abdominal wall. Considering to the tangled position of uterus in to the hernia loop, the animal couldn’t deliver natural parturition and it was hard, so the caesarean method used for delivery. This method performed well before hernia loop blockading, and the lamb born at ease and safe.
Photo 3: Born lamb in caesarean method, after checkup, vital signs was normal. Gravid uterus relocation in ruminants occulted for rupture and often engender in right position, inside the abdomen in which devitalize the Abs and creates hernia.[5,6,7]
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