A 7-yr-old African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) multiparous bitch experienced severe dystocia and death one day after the onset of parturition. Necropsy revealed three placental attachments in the right uterine horn and one in the left. A full-thickness rupture of the right horn at the middle placental attachment and an autolysed fetus free in the abdomen were present. Death was attributed to hypovolemic and endotoxemic shock after uterine rupture. Myometrium adjacent to the rupture and in the left uterine horn was subdivided into irregular pseudolobules by fibrous connective tissue tracts containing small endometrial glandular acini suggestive of adenomyosis, which may have facilitated uterine rupture. This is the first reported case of dystocia-induced uterine rupture and of adenomyosis in a wild dog.
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1 December 2009
Intrapartum Uterine Rupture with Coincidental Uterine Adenomyosis in an African Wild Dog (Lycaon pictus)
Annie Newell-Fugate,
Emily Lane
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Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
Vol. 40 • No. 4
December 2009
Vol. 40 • No. 4
December 2009
adenomyosis
African wild dog
bitch
dystocia
Lycaon pictus
uterine pathology
uterine rupture