Changes of Ruminal and Abomasal Volatile Fatty Acids in Bovine Abomasal Displacement

Abomasal Displacement in Cows - Measurement of Oxygen Saturation of the Abomasal Wall

The monitoring of intestinal oxygen saturation by means of a pulse oximeter is routinely applied in human medicine during surgery of the gastrointestinal tract to evaluate the disturbance of perfusion and assess tissue viability. To some extent, this technique has been applied in veterinary medicine. The purpose of this study was to test the technique in cattle and to describe the influence of ...

Experimental induction of left abomasal displacement: a new educational technique

The purpose of this study was to induce abomasal displacement to the left, and to let the undergraduate and post graduate students get used to the ping sounds of abomasum and other clinical manifestations. The procedure was carried out on eight young bulls, they were sedated and a 2 m flexible tube was inserted through the nasal canal into the rumen. By laparo-rumenotomy, 20 cm of the tube was ...

Left abomasal displacement between the uterus and rumen during bovine twin pregnancy

Here, we describe two cases of left displaced abomasum (LDA) in Holstein cattle at 6 and 9 months of twin gestation. Clinical examination revealed signs of proximal ileus with marked abdominal distension, but no ping sounds. An unusually high position of the gravid uterine horn on the left side was bserved with ultrasound. Left exploratory laparotomy confirmed that the abomasum was displaced to...

A Treatise on Left Abomasal Displacement in Dairy Cattle

Circadian changes in the abomasal secretions of the preruminant calf

The purpose of this study was to investigate the circadian changes in the abomasal secretions (quantities of juice, enzymes and electrolytes) of the preruminant calf. The gastric juice was collected every hour from five calves fitted with an innervated abomasal pouch and given milk twice daily, with a 7-h interval between the morning and the evening meals. The amounts of gastric secretions prod...