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8 year old rabbit

March 23, 2015 By Allison Zwingenberger

Today’s case is an 8 year old female spayed rabbit who presents with dyspnea, open mouth breathing, and nasal discharge. What’s your interpretation?

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Findings

There are bronchial and alveolar infiltrates bilaterally in the dependent portions of the lungs. The caudal lung lobes appear hyperinflated with flattening of the diaphragm. The heart and pulmonary vasculature are not well identified. The right 8th and 9th ribs are fractured.

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Diagnosis

Severe pneumonia.

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Discussion

Results of nasal swab culture:

  • Direct smear: moderate numbers poly’s & gram (-) rods.
  • Culture: moderate numbers Pasteurella sp. and small numbers E. coli.
  • Anaerobic culture: large numbers mixed growth

 

Case originally posted on October 16, 2009

Filed Under: Case of the Day, Exotic, Radiographs, Thorax

Comments

  1. vet74 says

    October 17, 2009 at 8:20 am

    pleural effusion and diffuse bronchointerstitial pattern.
    The heart can not be evaluated, and the vasculature is also difficult to visualize, but does seem slightly prominent on the VD view.
    On the right side there are rib fractures of the 8th and 9th ribs

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