Xenotransfusion with packed bovine red blood cells to a wildebeest calf (Connochaetes taurinus)
Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
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| Title | Xenotransfusion with packed bovine red blood cells to a wildebeest calf (Connochaetes taurinus) | |
| Creator | Buck, Roxanne K. Stegmann, George F. Poore, Luke A. Shaik, Tahiyya Gray, Travis Zeiler, Gareth E. | |
| Description | A 4-month-old female blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) was presented for bilateral pelvic limb fracture repair. Clinical examination under anaesthesia revealed a water-hammer pulse and a haematocrit of 0.13. A xenotransfusion was performed using bovine (Bos taurus) erythrocytes because of inability to acquire a wildebeest donor. Clinical parameters improved following transfusion and the post-operative haematocrit value was 0.31. The wildebeest remained physiologically stable with a gradually declining haematocrit for the next three days. On the third post-operative day, the wildebeest refractured its femur and was humanely euthanised because of the poor prognosis for further fracture repair. Xenotransfusion using blood from domestic ruminants represents a life-saving short-term emergency treatment of anaemic hypoxia in wild ungulates. Domestic goats could be used as blood donors for rare ungulates where allodonors are not available. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2018-10-17 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/jsava.v89i0.1669 | |
| Source | Journal of the South African Veterinary Association; Vol 89 (2018); 6 pages 2224-9435 1019-9128 | |
| Language | eng | |
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