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Lipid-Related Lesions in Quaker Parrots ( Myiopsitta monachus)
- Source :
- Veterinary pathology. 56(2)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The Quaker parrot has been used as a psittacine model to study clinical lipidology and lipid-related disorders. However, while Quaker parrots appear to be anecdotally susceptible to a variety of spontaneous dyslipidemic disorders and lesions caused by excess lipid accumulation, epidemiologic data are lacking. A multicenter retrospective study on 652 pathology submissions (411 necropsies and 243 biopsies) from Quaker parrots was performed by recording the final pathological diagnoses, age, and sex for each bird. The prevalence of lesions associated with lipid metabolism, such as hepatic lipidosis, atherosclerosis, xanthomas, adipose tumors, coelomic steatitis/steatonecrosis, endogenous lipid pneumonia, and acute pancreatic necrosis/pancreatitis, was reported. Multiple logistic regression models were used to characterize the effects of sex and age on these lesions, and the prevalence of hepatic lipidosis and atherosclerosis was compared to those in a random sample of control psittacine birds. The raw prevalence of atherosclerosis and hepatic lipidosis was 5.6% (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.4%–7.8%) and 21.2% (95% CI, 17.2%–25.1%), respectively. While the prevalence of atherosclerosis was similar to other psittacine species, hepatic lipidosis was more common in Quaker parrots. Quaker parrots also showed a unique susceptibility to acute pancreatic necrosis with a prevalence of 12.9% (95% CI, 9.7%–16.1%). Male parrots were found to be more susceptible than females to lipid accumulation lesions ( P = .0024), including atherosclerosis ( P = .018) and hepatic lipidosis ( P < .001). This retrospective study confirms the high susceptibility of Quaker parrots to lipid-related disorders and presents epidemiological data that may be useful to avian clinicians, pathologists, and researchers using Quaker parrots.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
040301 veterinary sciences
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Lipidoses
Gastroenterology
0403 veterinary science
03 medical and health sciences
Parrots
Sex Factors
Internal medicine
Epidemiology
medicine
Animals
Pathological
030304 developmental biology
Retrospective Studies
0303 health sciences
General Veterinary
biology
business.industry
Bird Diseases
Liver Diseases
Lipid metabolism
Retrospective cohort study
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
medicine.disease
biology.organism_classification
Atherosclerosis
Lipid Metabolism
Pneumonia, Lipid
Myiopsitta
Pancreatitis
Lipid pneumonia
Female
business
Lipidology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15442217
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Veterinary pathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....984c38c797cfd1709d8f584794236bce