Successful Surgical Management of Bilateral Lacerated Teat in Holstein Friesian Crossbreed Cattle | Chapter 6 | Innovations in Biological Science Vol. 8

 

Teat injuries in dairy cattle are often responsible for premature culling of affected cows. Teat injuries are responsible for great economic loss in dairy animals especially in high yielders if not treated promptly. This paper reports and describes the surgical management of deep bilateral longitudinal teat laceration in a cow. A 5.5-year-old Holstein Friesian crossbred cattle was presented with a history of traumatic injury by barbed metallic wire on the right fore-teat six hours before. Clinical examination revealed full-thickness, bilateral, longitudinal laceration of the same teat, extending from the base of the teat to the distal teat orifice with leakage of milk. The animal was active and alert with vital parameters recorded within the normal physiological range. Prompt reconstructive surgery was performed under sedation and local anesthesia to repair the laceration. The closure of the teat cistern was performed by suturing the laceration in a three-layer suture pattern. The outer-most skin layer was apposed with braided silk No. 1-0 in a simple interrupted suture pattern. Post-operative care included intramammary and systemic antibiotic therapy with NSAID for five consecutive days along with daily antiseptic dressing of the wound and regular drainage of milk via the fixed infant feeding tube in the teat cistern. The animal had shown uneventful recovery without any complication with the removal of skin suture on the 10th post-operative day and started hand milking of the teat on the 20th postoperative day. Surgical affections of the teat are best operated during the first 12 hrs. following injury because adequate reconstruction of the tissue becomes very difficult in later stages due to the development of severe inflammation.

 

Author(s) Details

Ankush Kumar
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, India.

Bijender Singh
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, India.

Neeraj Arora
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, India.

Satbir Sharma
Department of Veterinary Clinical Complex, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, India.

 

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