{"id":5495,"date":"2019-10-02T14:57:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/chronic-bilateral-bacterial-pyelonephritis-in-a-calf\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:44:44","slug":"chronic-bilateral-bacterial-pyelonephritis-in-a-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/chronic-bilateral-bacterial-pyelonephritis-in-a-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic bilateral bacterial pyelonephritis in a calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male, 12 months old, Friesian breed\u00a0 calf shows a bilateral alteration of the kidneys. The right one presents a vesicle of purulent material and adhesions to the liver.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen opening the left kidney, a dilatation of the renal pelvis is observed, which is intensely fibrous and has abundant purulent content mixed with material of sandy consistency. As a consequence of these alterations the renal medula is atrophied. The inspectors that refer the case suspect a congenital malformation.<\/p>\n<p>The histopathological study shows that it is a <strong>chronic suppurative pyelonephritis<\/strong>. A diffuse and inflammatory sclerosing (fibrosis) reaction of the renal pelvis with a presence of mineralized material and abundant bacteria is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Bacterial pyelonephritis usually have an ascending origin (the bacteria enter through low urinary tracts) the presence of bacteria favors the precipitation of mineral salts and the formation of calculi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4230\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4230\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8255\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-781x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-781x600.jpg 781w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-1536x1180.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-1-scaled-2048x1574.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bilateral alteration of the kidneys, in the right (arrowhead), a bag of purulent material\u00a0 was observed wich was adhered to the liver.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4228\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4228\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8251\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-2-565x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-2-565x600.jpg 565w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-2-282x300.jpg 282w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SESC-060-19-2-768x816.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of the left kidney sectioned in half. You can see dilatation and fibrosis of the renal pelvis and the presence of suppurative material.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male, 12 months old, Friesian breed\u00a0 calf shows a bilateral alteration of the kidneys. The right one presents a vesicle of purulent material and adhesions to the liver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,241],"tags":[397,407],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bovine-2","category-kidney-bovine-2","tag-infectious-en","tag-kidney-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","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=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}