Clinical case of pleuropneumonia in a stallion

The aim of the study was to analyze a clinical case of diagnosis and treatment of acute serous-fibrinous pleuropneumonia in a stallion. The object of the study was a three-year-old stallion belonging to a private person living in a rural settlement. The study was carried out on the territory of the Balakhtinsky District of the Krasnoyarsk Region. The analysis revealed an etiological role in the emergence of acute serous-fibrinous pleuropneumonia in a stallion of intensive training after prolonged rest of the animal; frosty air was a complicating factor. The dynamics of the development of clinical signs of the disease was explored. During the initial study, based on the totality of clinical symptoms, a diagnosis of bronchopneumonia was made and treatment was prescribed, which included the antibiotic amoxicillin-150 (intramuscularly in a dose of 50 ml, 1 time 3 times with an interval of 48 hours) and caffeine-sodium benzoate 20 % solution (subcutaneously in a dose 8 ml once a day for 3 consecutive days). On the fifth day from the start of treatment, a clinical examination of the stallion was again carried out, as the animal's condition worsened. According to the results of a second study, the diagnosis was made of acute pleuropneumonia with effusion of exudate into the pleural cavity. In the stallion's treatment regimen, the preparations of furosemide 5 % and 10 % calcium chloride solution were additionally introduced. The stallion died on the seventh day from the start of therapy. On the basis of the pathological and anatomical autopsy, it was established that the main disease that led to the death of the animal was acute serous-fibrinous pleuropneumonia with exudate effusion into the pleural cavity. The amount of exudate was 14 liters. The analysis of the taken treatment measures showed that as a result of an incorrect diagnosis, the treatment regimen was incomplete, and, therefore, insufficient. A solution of calcium chloride and diuretics must be administered from the first day of the disease and in the maximum possible doses, the use of these drugs is advisable at the initial stage of the development of pleuropneumonia, when the effusion of exudate is insignificant. When the condition of the animal worsens, thoraco-pleurocentesis and cavity sanitation are required.