جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « virtopsy » در نشریات گروه « دامپزشکی »

Idiopathic cardiomyopathy in hamsters can cause death due to cardiac failure. The current case study investigated the capability of imaging to reveal possible cardiomyopathy in a dead hamster. To this end, the cadaver of a 6-month-old male Roborovski dwarf hamster, which showed acute respiratory symptoms a few days before its death, was examined by virtopsy to discover the cause of death. Postmortem radiography was not efficient enough to evaluate the heart due to postmortem lung atelectasis that increases lung opacity and diminishes the contrast between lung and heart. Postmortem computed tomography can be helpful for the assessment of cardiac size. Consistent with postmortem echocardiographic studies, an increased thickness of the left ventricular parietal wall and the interventricular septum and dilation of the left atrium were observed. Thus, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was determined by imaging and confirmed by the conventional necropsy approach. It showed that the cause of death was acute cardiac failure following idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

A post-mortem examination is an important part of evidence-based medicine to understand the deterioration of clinical signs or causes of death in euthanized or deceased individual animals or even populations.Post-mortem analysis is aimed at improving clinical treatment and therapy, confirming a suspected diagnosis, man-aging breeding strategies, and clarifying the forensic cases (e.g., neglect or animal abuse). In analogy to virtopsy in human medicine, diagnostic imaging modalities have been applied in post-mortem veterinary medicine, which we call vetvirtopsy.We hypothesize that vetvirtopsy can be used as a method to answer certain clinical/post-mortem questions to im-prove the diagnosis reliability. In some questions, vetvirtopsy actually can replace conventional necropsy. This overview study aims to compare vetvirtopsy with conventional necropsy for variable causes of death in animals and to define its possibilities and limitations.Deceased or euthanized pets and wild animals were collected. The imaging techniques, such as post-mortem digital radiography, post-mortem ultrasound, post-mortem computed tomography, and post-mortem magnetic resonance tomography combined with image-guided tissue sampling, were used to address the open questions about clinical symptoms or causes of their death.The case series in this project showed that diagnostic imaging techniques are feasible in answering distinct ante-mortem and post-mortem clinical and forensic questions. However, there is an interdisciplinary collaboration between diagnostic imaging and sampling under imaging guidance