Avaliação dos perfis hematológicos e bioquímicos de tamanduás-bandeiras (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) com queimaduras térmicas graves

• Autor(a) principal: Magalhães, Tayane Bruna Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Monografias da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://bdm.ufmt.br/handle/1/3895
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA; Anemia; SIRS; Lesão térmica; Tamanduás; Anemia; SIRS; Thermal injury; Anteaters

ABSTRACT: Forest fires occur annually in the Pantanal Mato-grossense in periods of drought causing the mortality and morbidit of numerous animal species, where giant anteaters are among the main victims of these catastrophes. Due to the difficult breeding of this species in captivity, there is little data in the veterinary literature regarding the hematological and biochemical profiles of healthy giant anteaters and there is no description of any work on the changes found in a group of these animals with termal injuries where source of heat is fire. Therefore, the objective was to evaluate the hematological and biochemical profiles of giant anteaters from areas on fire in the Pantanal (MT) in 2020, as well as to determine the most frequente laboratory alterations. In the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory of HOVET-UFMT, complete blood count and sérum biochemistry of blood samples from 6 individuals of the species Myrmecophaga tridactyla were performed after hospital admission. Among thes results found in blood counts, 100% (6/6) animals showed hypoproteinemia; 83,3% (5/6) hypochromic normocytic anemia and 66,7% (4/6) had thrombocytosis. In White blood cell counts, 66,7%(4/6) individuals had left shift neutropenia, these being the predominant findings. Few changes were observed in serum biochemistry, unlike data found in human literature. It was concluded that giant anteaters with severe thermal burns show mainly laboratory changes in the blood count and biochemical changes in a first rescue post-assessment. Thus, stressing the need for these exams at various post-injury time intervals for a better understanding of the laboratory changes suffered by these patients, given that all individuals in this study died.