Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

Chapter 135: INFLAMMATION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES. SALPINGITIS.

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Comprehensive clinical manual detailing disorders of the nervous, genitourinary, ocular, and integumentary systems in domestic animals. It begins with principles of neural control and general symptomatology, classifying motor, sensory, and psychic disturbances and methods for localizing lesions. The text describes specific conditions such as seizures, paralysis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, tumors, and toxicoses, and outlines diagnostic signs and pathological causes. Later sections address urine analysis and renal disease, urinary tract inflammation and calculi, and diseases of the eye, skin, and constitutional systems, combining pathological description with clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and practical guidance for examination and interpretation.

INFLAMMATION OF THE FALLOPIAN TUBES. SALPINGITIS.

This condition is met with in the female mammals of all species and mainly as the result of an infection extending from diseased womb or ovary. The results are degeneration of the epithelium, exudation into the mucosa with thickening, stenosis of the tubes, the formation of cysts along the line of the canal, with pink or straw colored contents, including fibrine, leucocytes, epithelium and granular debris. As in oöphoritis there may be blood extravasations and clots and abscess. In the cow they are at times calcified and create a suspicion of tuberculosis.

The symptoms are essentially those of metritis or ovaritis, and as these are usually more prominent the attendant salpingitis is generally overlooked during life. Careful rectal examination may detect the enlarged, tender or sacculated tubes. Treatment may be laxative, diuretic, derivative, and antiseptic toward the womb. Ablation of the ovaries, tubes and even the womb is often required.