Balasundara Kavitha RANI, Shekhya Ganga NAIK, Konanur Javaregowda ANANDA, Basavanal Eswarappa SHAMBLLINGAPPA, Suresh Revanna PATEL, Mosarukunte DEVARAJ

Necrotic stomatitis and haemorrhagic enteritis in an Indian rock python

Piton dünya üzerindeki en büyük yılanlardan biridir. Hayvanat bahçelerinde yetiştirilen bir Hindistan kaya pitonu başın ön kısmında şiddetli yaralanmalara maruz kalmıştır. Alt çenenin heriki tarafındaki gingival mukozada kronik stomatit belirgindi. Sol üst çenenin yan tarafında kronik nekrotik reaksiyonu andıran çeneden sarkan soyulmuş deri parçası belirlendi. Sindirilmiş yiyecek bulunmayan midede kataral eksudat ve hafif ödemli gastrik ülserler gözlendi. İnce barsaklar boyunca peteşiyal kanamalar, nekrotik odaklar, villuslarda atrofi gözlenirken, kalın barsakta nematodlar belirlendi. Akciğerlerde kataral köpüklü içerik vardı ve mikroskopik olarak septal kalınlaşma, konjesyon, kanama ve ödem gözlendi. Mide ve barsakların histolojik incelemesinde kriptlerde epitel soyulma ve konjesyon belirlendi. Karaciğerde hepatit, haemosiderosis ve safra kesesinde proliferasyon ile karakterize portal fibrosis gözlendi. Postmortem muayenede ölüm sebebi olarak kronik nekrotik stomatit, pnömoni ve nekro-hemorajik enterite bağlı genel sistemik bozukluk olarak karar verildi.

Hindistan kaya pitonunda nekrotik stamatit ve hemorajik enterit

Pythons are one of the largest snakes in the world. The Indian rock python bred in zoological garden had suffered from grievous injury on the frontal area of the head was received. A chronic stomatitis was evident with grayish lesions on either side of the lower jaw on the gingival mucosa. The lateral side of the left upper jaw showed partially sloughed skin of the lips hanging from the upper jaw indicating a chronic necrotic reaction. The stomach devoid of ingesta had catarrhal exudate and gastric ulcerations with mild edema. Throughout the small intestine there were petechial haemorrhages and necrotic foci, villous atrophy and the large intestine harboured several nematodes. Grossly, the lungs had catarrhal frothy contents, and microscopically showed alveolar septal thickening, congestion, haemorrhages and edema. Histological investigation of the stomach and intestine indicated epithelial sloughing, congestion, catarrh and bacillary population embedded in the crypts. Liver had focal hepatitis, haemosiderosis and portal fibrosis with biliary proliferation. The post mortem investigation revealed that the cause of death was generalized systemic disease due to chronic necrotic stomatitis, pneumonia and necro-haemorrhagic enteritis.

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