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Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs
Two young dogs were referred to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of Konkuk University, one for examination of vaginal discharge and the other after being hit by a car. Dog 1 exhibited a high neutrophil count on Gram-stained vaginal smears, marked leukocytosis on a complete blood count, and u...
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The Korean Association of Immunologists
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458625 http://dx.doi.org/10.4110/in.2017.17.2.128 |
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author | Yoon, Hun-Young Byun, Jae-Young Park, Kang-Hyo Min, Byong-Su Kim, Jung-Hyun |
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description | Two young dogs were referred to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of Konkuk University, one for examination of vaginal discharge and the other after being hit by a car. Dog 1 exhibited a high neutrophil count on Gram-stained vaginal smears, marked leukocytosis on a complete blood count, and uterine enlargement on ultrasonography. In dog 2, a markedly enlarged right uterine horn containing echogenic debris was found incidentally on ultrasonography. A tentative diagnosis of pyometra was made in both cases and ovariohysterectomy was performed. Purulent material was collected from each uterine horn and submitted separately for aerobic and anaerobic bacterial culture; all culture results were negative. The white blood cell count revealed normal limits 2 days post operation in dog 1 and 4 days post operation in dog 2. Positive bacterial cultures are usually obtained from dogs with pyometra, and antibiotic selection is based on the results of culture and sensitivity testing in the event of failure of empiric antibiotic therapy. However, in the cases reported here, no bacterial growth was identified from the uterine samples despite the presence of purulent material. A short course of empiric antibiotic therapy was administered. This is the first known report describing sterile pyometra in dogs. |
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spelling | pubmed-54079852017-04-28 Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs Yoon, Hun-Young Byun, Jae-Young Park, Kang-Hyo Min, Byong-Su Kim, Jung-Hyun Immune Netw Case Report Two young dogs were referred to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of Konkuk University, one for examination of vaginal discharge and the other after being hit by a car. Dog 1 exhibited a high neutrophil count on Gram-stained vaginal smears, marked leukocytosis on a complete blood count, and uterine enlargement on ultrasonography. In dog 2, a markedly enlarged right uterine horn containing echogenic debris was found incidentally on ultrasonography. A tentative diagnosis of pyometra was made in both cases and ovariohysterectomy was performed. Purulent material was collected from each uterine horn and submitted separately for aerobic and anaerobic bacterial culture; all culture results were negative. The white blood cell count revealed normal limits 2 days post operation in dog 1 and 4 days post operation in dog 2. Positive bacterial cultures are usually obtained from dogs with pyometra, and antibiotic selection is based on the results of culture and sensitivity testing in the event of failure of empiric antibiotic therapy. However, in the cases reported here, no bacterial growth was identified from the uterine samples despite the presence of purulent material. A short course of empiric antibiotic therapy was administered. This is the first known report describing sterile pyometra in dogs. The Korean Association of Immunologists 2017-04 2017-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5407985/ /pubmed/28458625 http://dx.doi.org/10.4110/in.2017.17.2.128 Text en Copyright © 2017 The Korean Association of Immunologists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Yoon, Hun-Young Byun, Jae-Young Park, Kang-Hyo Min, Byong-Su Kim, Jung-Hyun Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title | Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title_full | Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title_fullStr | Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title_full_unstemmed | Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title_short | Sterile Pyometra in Two Dogs |
title_sort | sterile pyometra in two dogs |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5407985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28458625 http://dx.doi.org/10.4110/in.2017.17.2.128 |
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