Bovine abdominocentesis
2000
Zadnik, T. (Ljubljana Univ. (Slovenia). Veterinary Fac.)
Abdominal paracentesis - abdominocentesis is a surgical puncture into the abdominal cavity to eliminate fluid. A small quantity of peritoneal fluid in the abdomen of an adult cow - less than 50 ml - does not mean that carrying out of abdominocentesis has no diagnostic value. Peritoneal fluid changes quantitatively as well as qualitatively especially in more serious diseases of abdominal organs. Macroscopic and microscopic assessment (quantity, viscosity, colour, smell, turbidness, cellular elements) offers valuable diagnostic and prognostic information. On the basis of the results of 605 laboratory examinations of peritoneal fluid we have come to the conclusion that they have a significant diagnostic and prognostic value for several acute and chronic abdominal diseases. We recommend abdominocentesis also in cows with difficult parturitions (a dead decaying calf, torsio uteri, rupture of uterus, etc.), liver and urinary tract diseases (obstruction bile ducts, rupture of gall- or urinary bladder) and other.
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