Pyometra in Dogs, Clinical, Bacteriological and Histopathological
Observations
Othman J Ali*1,2,
Ali H Hassan3,Nahla M Saeed4 and Talib GM Ali1
1Department
of Surgery and Theriogenology, College of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Sulaimani,
Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq; 2 Department of
anesthesia, college of health sciences, Cihan University Sulaimaniya,
Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan Region, Iraq; 3Department of Basic
Science, College of Dentistry, University of Sulaimani,
Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq; 4Department of
Microbiology, College of College of Veterinary Medicine, University
of Sulaimani,
Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
*Corresponding author:
othman.ali@univsul.edu.iq
Abstract
Pyometra is a life-threatening
uterine infection, accompanied by accumulation
of intrauterine purulent exudate. The objective of this study was to show the recent laboratory and histopathological
finding of pyometra in dogs with their correlation to their ages, and
postoperative outcome.In
this study, eleven
cases of pyometra out of 115 female dogs of different ages and breeds
were admitted tothe
Veterinary Teaching Hospital/College of Veterinary Medicine/University of
Sulaimani from 2017 to 2021 for the purpose of ovariohysterectomy (OHE).
They were diagnosed according to history, clinical signs, physical
examination and the trans-abdominal ultrasound inspections. The uterine
content and biopsy were collected during OHE for bacteriological
and histopathological study respectively.The
pyometra-uteri were plated on blood agars for 24 hours. The growing
bacterial colonies were inoculated on Mannitol Salt, MacConkey and Eosin
Methylene Blue (EMB) agar, and their strains were determined using the VITEK 2
system. In the results, a significant difference was
found between the cases of pyometra and the normal
bitches, the average age of the pyometra-dogs was 265
months old (±176.56 STD),
while the average age of non-pyometra bitches was 23 months old(±
15.64 STD). Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus cohnni were
recovered from the infected uterus. Chronic suppurative endometritis or metritis
were identified, which associated with
purulent and mucopurulent inflammatory exudates in the uterine lumen, focal
epithelial sloughing, endometrial hyperplasia and fibrosis, cystic dilatation of
the endometrial gland and infiltration of the endometrial stroma by mixed
inflammatory reaction consisting of mononuclear and neutrophilic
polymorphonuclear inflammatory cells. It was concluded that
pyometra was an age-related infection and the periodic reproductive examination
should be carried out for prompt surgical treatment.
To Cite This Article:
Ali OJ, Hassan AH,SaeedNM and AliTGM, 2023.
Pyometra in dogs, clinical, bacteriological and histopathological observations.
Pak Vet J, 43(4): 643-650. http://dx.doi.org/10.29261/pakvetj/2023.096