Valvular and mural endocarditis in a goat – a case report

• Main Author: Moraes, Cristiane da Rosa
• Publication Date: 2018
• Other Authors: Dick, Milene, Pavarini, Saulo Petinatti, Driemeier, David, Schmidt, Verônica
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Medicine
• Download full: https://rbmv.org/BJVM/article/view/895
• topic: caprino; endocardite; , Arcanobacterium pyogenes; Goat; endocarditis; Arcanobacterium pyogenes

Endocarditis is the inflammation of the endocardial lining. Endocarditis may be mural when the lesionsare located on the lining of an auricle or ventricle, but it is much more frequently valvular, the lesions werelocated on the valves. The current study aims at reporting an endocarditis case of a 1-year-old male Boergoat, which had been showing clinical respiratory signs and weight loss. The treatment with enrofloxacinand tetracycline do not have a result and the goat died. At necropsy, its kidneys were swollen, the lungs wereadhered to the costal pleura and there were nodules on the pericardial sac and heart. Histology revealedpneumonia, hepatitis, and myocarditis with formation of abscesses, thus characterizing septicemia.Arcanobacterium pyogenes was identified from lungs, liver and blood samples. Although A. pyogenes isusually associated with localized infections, this report highlights the possibility of its involvement inthe septicemia due to endocarditis disease in goats.