Volume: 51 Issue: 2
Year: 2020, Page: 153-158,
Received: Aug. 14, 2019 Accepted: Sept. 25, 2019 Published: July 1, 2020
Canine pyometra is the most common uterine disease in intact, sexually mature female dogs. The disease is broadly classified as open and closed type, based on the patency of cervix. The study was conducted to evaluate the changes in clinical, physiological and haematobiochemical parameters in open and closed-cervix pyometra. Physiological parameters were not altered among pyometra-affected dogs. Vomiting, dehydration and dullness were more frequently noticed in open-cervix pyometra cases. Significantly higher total leucocyte count and band cell per cent and significantly lower total erythrocyte count was recorded among dogs with open-cervix pyometra than closed-cervix pyometra. The present finding is contradictory to most of the previous reports.
Keywords: open-cervix pyometra, closed-cervix pyometra, dog, haemato-biochal parameters
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Vidya, V.K., Unnikrishnan, M.P., Kurien, M.O., Jayakumar, C. and Surya, S. 2020. Comparative analysis of closed and open-cervix canine pyometra. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 51(2): 153- 158.