Enfermedades metabólicas, de depósito, nutricionales, de manejo, neoplásicas y del desarrollo de anfibios en cautividad: estudio retrospectivo de 131 pacientes
- C. Juan-Sallés
- V. Almagro
- L. Carbonell
- X. Valls
- A. Montesinos
- H. Fernández-Bellon
ISSN: 1130-7064
Ano de publicación: 2021
Volume: 41
Número: 3
Páxinas: 163-174
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Clínica veterinaria de pequeños animales: revista oficial de AVEPA, Asociación Veterinaria Española de Especialistas en Pequeños Animales
Resumo
Included in this second part of the study evaluating the causes of morbidity and mortality in 131 amphibians submitted for histopathologic diagnosis are metabolic, deposition, nutritional, management-related, and neoplastic diseases, as well as malformations. Salient disease processes include soft tissue mineralization (19/131; 14.5%) with 2 cases corresponding to calcinosis circumscripta and 17 to mineralization associated with underlying conditions; metabolic bone disease (17/131; 13%); cloacal and/or rectal prolapse (11/131; 8.4%); diverse neoplasms (6/131; 4.6%), with 2 different neoplasms in 2 amphibians; and cholelithiasis (4/131; 3.1%). Nine of 11 amphibians with cloacal and/or rectal prolapse and the 4 cases of cholelithiasis involved Mallorcan midwife toads (Alytes muletensis) from the same facility. The almost complete absence of malformations (only one case of forelimb amelia) and presentation of rare diseases previously non-reported such as gastric prolapse through the oral cavity were notorious. Among diseases of potential nutritional and/or toxic cause, two cases of goiter and one of squamous metaplasia probably due to vitamin A deficiency in blue poison arrow frogs (Dendrobates azureus) fed unsupplemented crickets are noteworthy.