@article{article_646618, title={Severe struvite urolithiasis in Saanen kids in a flock}, journal={Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Journal of Health Sciences Institute}, volume={7}, pages={99–104}, year={2019}, DOI={10.24998/maeusabed.646618}, url={https://izlik.org/JA95XT99JT}, author={Karakurum, Mehmet Çağrı and Şahinduran, Şima and Albay, Metin Koray}, keywords={Struvite urolithiasis,Kids,Ration}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">The owner
of a goat flock admitted to our clinic with three intact male Saanen kids (3
months of age) with the complaints of stranguria, anuria, and colic. One kid
was totally anuric, the other two was dribbling little urine. Anuric kid was
dead shortly after submission. One of the other two kids was dead 4 hours after
submission to our clinic and a necropsy was performed on both kids. Several
urolithiasis extracted from the cortex, pelvis of kidneys, ureters and
bladders. After necropsy, urolith samples were subjected for analysis and
reported as struvite. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;color:#131413;" xml:lang="en-gb">Then, the farm was visited and urine was collected from all kids (n=23)
and 15 of them was positive for struvite urolithiasis according sediment
examination. Vitamin C (20 mg/kg) as powder was prescribed for four weeks and
correction of the ration and gradually increasing the salt content of ration to
% 4 was adviced. Four weeks later no struvite crystals were seen
microscopically. </span> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb"> </span> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-gb" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;" xml:lang="en-gb">Correction
of ration and use of Vitamin C resulted in dissoluation of struvite crystals
and prevented the further occurrence of urolithisis. Vitamin C can be used as a
safe urine acidifier in kids. </span> </p> <p> </p>}, number={2}