Clinic

This section brings together images, videos, and articles referring to the clinical cases encountered by the authors on dairy and beef cattle farms.
We will document both clinical cases involving a single bovine and clinical cases affecting multiple animals or the entire herd.
For the material grouped under the heading Clinical Cases (sequences of images and video), we will use as titles the phrases used by the farmer when requesting our intervention, describing the symptoms of the sick animals. We will therefore not reveal the underlying condition in advance, which will allow us to work through the diagnostic process together, highlighting for each case the key steps needed to reach a definitive or presumptive diagnosis and, of course, the prognosis.

clinical cases

Clinic

Clinic

Congenital forelimb extensor weakness in a calf: Case 1

Clinical Case 1: "The Cow Won't Get Up"

Congenital forelimb extensor weakness in a calf: case 2

Unilateral Spastic Paresis ("Wooden Leg")

Bilateral spastic paresis (Holstein heifer)

Bilateral spastic paresis (Montbéliard bull calf)

Tibial fractures

Winter Dysentery – Hemorrhagic Winter Enteritis

Rectal Prolapse in a Garonnese Calf

Hyperacute Colic in a Piedmontese Calf

Partial Urethral Obstruction

Sorghum Poisoning in Cattle

TETANUS in a nursing calf

Jugular vein distension due to congestive heart failure

Iatrogenic Brachial Plexus Injury (Holstein Heifer)

Digital Nerve Paralysis (Holstein Calf)

Incomplete Radial Nerve Paralysis (Holstein Heifer)

Radial Nerve Paralysis (Piedmontese Bull)

Actinobacillosis of the pharynx, larynx, and parotid gland (Holstein heifer)

Paratuberculosis: Clinical Case

Necrotic Laryngitis (Laryngeal Necrobacillosis)

Cerebellar Ataxia (Newborn Holstein Calf)

Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR): Clinical Case

End-Stage Necrotic Laryngitis (Piedmontese Heifer)

LISTERIOSIS in a Holstein heifer

Bovine nervous ketosis

Clinical Case 3: "The Calf's Legs Are Weak"

Myodystrophy from Vitamin E and Selenium Deficiency

Clinical Case 4: "The Cow Seems Crazy"

Aseptic inflammatory polyarthritis in a calf

Clinical Case 5: "The Cow Is Sleepy and Sweating"

Clinical Case 6: "The Cow Hasn't Produced Milk in 2-3 Days"

Clinical Case 7: "The Cow Has Stopped Producing Milk"

Clinical Case 8: "The Cow Gets Up and Lies Down" (see procedure in Surgery/Video)

Clinical Case 9: "The Bull's Belly Is Swollen…"

Milk Tetany in Calves (Hypomagnesemia)

MENINGITIS in a Piedmontese calf

Grass Tetany in Piedmontese Calves (Hypomagnesemia)

MENINGITIS in a Holstein calf

MENINGITIS (nystagmus)

MENINGITIS crossbred calf