Traumatic reticulitis and displaced abomasum in cattle
Marr, A.
Veterinary Record 154(25): 799-800
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-4900 PMID: 15233464 Document Number: 2956
Long experience of cattle practice, and the routine use of Rothera's test on the millcas a diagnostic tool, made me very sceptical of how often 'secondary ketosis, that is, ketosis resulting from inappetence accompanying other conditions, really occurred. I am afraid that I came to regard so-called 'secondary ketosis' as a plausible concept handed down from textbook to textbook and slavishly expounded by clinical teachers, and I was myself once one such, more conversant with the literature than with clinical practice. The only case which I can recall which justified the diagnosis was when I was presented with a cow calved three weeks previously, exhibiting profound ketosis, unresponsive to therapy, and complete ruminal stasis. Exploratory laparotomy/rumenotomy revealed obstruction of the rumenoomasal orifice by an ingested afterbirth, the removal of which resulted in a rapid and complete cure.
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