Investigations on the liver function and its prognostic value in dairy cows with hypocalcaemic paralysis

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Published: Jan 31, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/jhvms.15659
N. PANOUSIS (Ν. ΠΑΝΟΥΣΗΣ)
Clinic of Productive Animal Medicine, Faculty ofVeterinary Medicine, A. U. Τ
N. ROUBLES (Ν. ΡΟΥΜΠΙΕΣ)
Laboratory of Clinical Diagnosis and Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, A. U. T
H. KARATZIAS (Χ. ΚΑΡΑΤΖΙΑΣ)
Clinic of Productive Animal Medicine, Faculty ofVeterinary Medicine, A. U. Τ
Abstract

Investigations on the liver function and its prognostic value were performed in dairy cows with hypocalcaemic paralysis. Among the 107 animals affected by milk fever 22 showed signs of liver insufficiency. In spite of the therapy indicated, 7 of these animals were not cured. The remaining 85 sick cows, which had showed a physiologic liver function, were cured after the first therapy was applied.

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