Estimation of the uterine integrity in Chilean purebred mares and its association with age and foaling number

Authors

  • Pamela Carolina Morales Muñoz Facultad de Recursos Naturales y Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Santo Tomás, Talca
  • Rodrigo Andrés Castro Sánchez Facultad de Recursos Naturales y Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Santo Tomás, Talca

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v29i2.14489

Keywords:

mares, fertility, biopsy, cytology, microbiology, cervix

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the uterine integrity of Purebred Chilean mares in relation to age and parity number. A total of 30 mares stratified according to age (young: 2-12 years, elder: >12 years) and parity (0, 1-2,> 2 parturitions). The integrity of the cervix was evaluated, and biopsies were performed for cytology and microbiological culture of the endometrium. Results showed that 73.3% of the mares had histopathological alterations without statistical association with age and parity. The uterine cytology showed that 43.3% of the mares had endometritis, a condition that showed significant association with age and parity. Escherichia coli was isolated in 8 of the 10 cases of bacterial endometritis of the study. Also, 13 mares presented abnormalities of the cervix, which was associated with age and parity. The results indicated that the age and parity number are factors that should be considered when evaluating the potential fertility of Purebred Chilean Mares.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2018-05-31

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Artículos Primarios

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Pamela Carolina Morales Muñoz, Rodrigo Andrés Castro Sánchez

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

AUTHORS RETAIN THEIR RIGHTS:

a. Authors retain their trade mark rights and patent, and also on any process or procedure described in the article.

b. Authors retain their right to share, copy, distribute, perform and publicly communicate their article (eg, to place their article in an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in the Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Perú (RIVEP).

c. Authors retain theirs right to make a subsequent publication of their work, to use the article or any part thereof (eg a compilation of his papers, lecture notes, thesis, or a book), always indicating the source of publication (the originator of the work, journal, volume, number and date).

How to Cite

Morales Muñoz, P. C., & Castro Sánchez, R. A. (2018). Estimation of the uterine integrity in Chilean purebred mares and its association with age and foaling number. Revista De Investigaciones Veterinarias Del Perú, 29(2), 565-574. https://doi.org/10.15381/rivep.v29i2.14489