{"id":5121,"date":"2012-12-04T12:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/splenomegaly-and-jaundice-in-pig-carcasses\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T14:04:04","slug":"splenomegaly-and-jaundice-in-pig-carcasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/splenomegaly-and-jaundice-in-pig-carcasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Splenomegaly and jaundice in pig carcasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Histopathological examination of the liver and spleen samples revealed that the liver had no significant lesions, spleen changes were due to extensive hemorrhagic areas. Inflammatory-necrotic lesions were ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of these hemorrhages is unknown, but very likely due to <a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/splenic-torsion-in-swine\/?lang=en\">splenic torsion<\/a> or trauma.\u00a0The cause of jaundice and if it is related to the splenic torsion is uncertain. One possibility is that the degradation of extravasated erythrocytes caused the jaundice, it would then be a <strong>prehepatic jaundice due to\u00a0hemolysis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1259\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1259\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6401\" title=\"Enlarged spleen (50 cm x 20 cm) with discoloration on the surface. The liver was normal.\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-2.jpg\" alt=\"Enlarged spleen (50 cm x 20 cm) with discoloration on the surface. The liver was normal.\" width=\"544\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-2.jpg 544w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-2-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enlarged spleen (50 cm x 20 cm) with discoloration on the surface. The liver was normal.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1260\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1260\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6403\" title=\"Yellow color changes (jaundice) were evident in the pericardial adipose tissue and the sclera, endothelia and renal pelvis.\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SESC-134-12-1.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow color changes (jaundice) were evident in the pericardial adipose tissue and the sclera, endothelia and renal pelvis.\" width=\"435\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow color changes (jaundice) were evident in the pericardial adipose tissue and the sclera, endothelia and renal pelvis.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Histopathological examination of the liver and spleen samples revealed that the liver had no significant lesions, spleen changes were due to extensive hemorrhagic areas. Inflammatory-necrotic lesions were ruled out. The cause of these hemorrhages is unknown, but very likely due to splenic torsion or trauma.\u00a0The cause of jaundice and if it is related to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,233,179],"tags":[366,400],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liver-2","category-lymphoid-porcine-2","category-porcine-2","tag-liver","tag-spleen-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}