Goat iodopenia as a cause of congenital struma in kids
1996
Bires, J. | Bartko, P. | Weissova, T. | Michna, A. (Univerzita Veterinarskeho Lekarstva, Kosice (Slovakia)) | Matisak, T.
The objective of the paper was to assess the occurrence of congenital struma in kids in relation to the clinical and biochemical finding in their mothers. Observations involved 46 imported goats in the course of kidding and their kids. Thyroid gland hypertrophy (39 goats) and somewhat worse or even bad state of nutrition were dominant clinical findings in pregnant goats and in goats after kidding. Abortions in the last month of pregnancy were recorded in 14 goats, and 14 goats delivered stillborn kids. Eighteen goats delivered 26 liveborn kids, but 18 of them died within 12 to 24 hours after birth. Surviving kids lagged behind in their growth and often suffered from bronchopneumonia as an additional disease. Iodine concentration in the blood serum of goats (5.58 +/- 2.14 micro mol/l) was significantly lower (P0.01) in comparison with kids (133.4 +/- 15.61 micro mol/l). This state was characterized by adequate T3 and T4 concentrations in the blood serum of goats (1.78+/-0.59 and 4.53+/-4.44 nmol/l, resp. and o kids (4.66+/-2.26 and 182.93+/-2.59 nmol/l, resp.).
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