1Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, Sardarkrushinagar
2 Professor and Head, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, Sardarkrushinagar
3Assistant Professor, Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, Sardarkrushinagar
4 Junior Research Fellow, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, Sardarkrushinagar
Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar-385 506 (Gujarat)
*Corresponding author; E-mail: drprajwalita@gmail.com
Online published on 4 June, 2018.
The present study was conducted on 33 clinical cases (January-December 2014) of female buffaloes in the age group of 2–13 yr presented with complaint of emaciation, recurrent tympany and anorexia, and suspected for diaphragmatic hernia. All the buffaloes were subjected to auscultation and trans-abdominal ultrasonographic examination followed by laparorumenotomy. The statistical analysis revealed that auscultation resulted in 35.29% and 93.05% diagnostic accuracy at 4th and 5th intercostals space, respectively, with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 93.05%. The diagnostic accuracy through ultrasonographic observations demonstrated 94.09% and 91.25% accuracy at 4th and 5th intercostal space, respectively, with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 94.09%. It can be concluded that ultrasonography should be used as an adjunct to clinical auscultation for confirmatory diagnosis of diaphragmatic hernia in buffaloes.
Auscultation, Buffalo, Diaphragmatic hernia, Ultrasonography
