Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về bệnh học thý y được đăng trên tạp chí Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về bệnh thú y đề tài: Fatal inanition in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus): Pathological findings in completely emaciated carcasses. | Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica BioMed Central Research Open Access Fatal inanition in reindeer Rangifer tarandus tarandus Pathological findings in completely emaciated carcasses Terje D Josefsen 1 2 Karen K Sorensen1 3 Torill Mork1 Svein D Mathiesen2 and Kathrine A Ryeng2 Address 1National Veterinary Institute Tromso Stakkevollvn. 23b NO-9292 Tromso Norway 2Section of Arctic Veterinary Medicine Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science PO Box 6204 NO-9292 Tromso Norway and 3Department of Cell Biology and Histology Institute of Medical Biology University of Tromso NO-9037 Tromso Norway Email Terje D Josefsen - Karen K Sorensen - Torill Mork - Svein D Mathiesen - Kathrine A Ryeng - kathryen@ Corresponding author Published 28 September 2007 Received 13 December 2006 A ù. .- .-- AA-7 AUTzon Accepted 28 September 2007 Acta Veterinaria Scandinavian 2007 49 27 doi 1751-0147-49-27 This article is available from http content 49 1 27 2007 Josefsen et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In a project to determine the causes of winter mortality in reindeer in Finnmark County northern Norway the most frequent diagnosis turned out to be complete emaciation despite several of the reindeer having been given silage for up to 4 weeks before they died. The present paper describes autopsy results and other findings in these animals. Methods Autopsies were made of 32 reindeer carcasses and 28 of these were diagnosed as completely emaciated based on lack of visible fat and serous atrophy of subepicardial
