Etiology

ETIOLOGY

Cattle

  • TRP
  • Perforation or leakage of abomasal ulcer
  • Necrosis and rupture of abomasal wall after abomasal volvolus
  • Rumenitis of cattle
  • Complication of caesarean section
  • Rupture of vagina during coitus
  • Deposition of semen into the peritoneum
  • Chemical peritonitis
  • Transection of small intestine
  • Intraperitoneal injection of non-sterile solutions
  • Spontaneous uterine rupture during parturition or dystocia
  • Sadistic rupture of vagina
  • Spontaneous rupture of rectum at calving
  • As part of specific disease such as tuberculosis.

Horses

  • Secondary to infectious chemical or parasitic peritoneal injuries 
  • Complication after abdominal surgery
  • Rupture of dorsal sac of cecum or colon at foaling
  • Cecal rupture in foals subjected to anaesthesia and gastric endoscopy
  • NSAID
  • Rectal rupture or tear
  • Extension from a retroperitoneal infection
  • Gastric erosion or rupture related to ulceration
  • Leakage from a cecal perforation
  • Spontaneous gastric rupture

Pigs

  • Ileal perforation
  • Haemophilus suis

Sheep:

  • Spread from intestinal wall
  • Serositis- arthritis
  • Faulty asepsis at laparotomy, peritoneal injection trocarization for tympany of rumen or cecum
  • Leakage through wall infracted gut segment
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