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Heart pathologies in dolphins stranded along the northwestern Italian coast

2013; Inter-Research; Volume: 107; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3354/dao02672

1616-1580

Frine Eleonora Scaglione, E. Bollo, Paola Pregel, Laura Chiappino, Alessandra Sereno, Walter Mignone, R Moschi, Fulvio Garibaldi, Claudia Marcela Tittarelli, F. Guarda,

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DAO Diseases of Aquatic Organisms Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials DAO 107:31-36 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02672 Heart pathologies in dolphins stranded along the northwestern Italian coast F. E. Scaglione1,*, E. Bollo1, P. Pregel1, L. Chiappino1, A. Sereno1, W. Mignone2, R. Moschi3, F. Garibaldi4, C. Tittarelli2, F. Guarda1 1Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Università degli Studi di Torino, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy 2Istituto Zooprofilattico del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta, Sezione di Imperia, 18100 Imperia, Italy 3ASL 1 imperiese, Bussana di Sanremo, 18038 Sanremo, Italy 4Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy *Email: frineeleonora.scaglione@unito.it ABSTRACT: Nine striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba and 1 bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus stranded along the Ligurian Sea coast of Italy were necropsied between February 2011 and April 2012. Macroscopic and histological findings were observed in the hearts of all animals and included saccular aneurysms of the pulmonary trunk (n = 3), cirsoid aneurysms (n = 1), right ventricular dilation (n = 1) associated with hypoplasia of the tricuspid chordae (n = 1), valvular fibrosis (n = 3), mitral leaflet thickening (n = 1), left ventricular hypertrophy (n = 1), lymphocytic myocarditis (n = 1), and Lambl’s excrescences (n = 4). To our best knowledge Lambl’s excrescences, aneurysm of the pulmonary trunk, and cirsoid aneurysms have not previously been described in marine mammals, and some of these findings should be taken into account as possible causes of dolphin morbidity, mortality, and stranding. KEY WORDS: Aneurism · Lambl’s excrescences · Stenella coeruleoalba · Tursiops truncatus Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Scaglione FE, Bollo E, Pregel P, Chiappino L and others (2013) Heart pathologies in dolphins stranded along the northwestern Italian coast. Dis Aquat Org 107:31-36. https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02672 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in DAO Vol. 107, No. 1. Online publication date: November 25, 2013 Print ISSN: 0177-5103; Online ISSN: 1616-1580 Copyright © 2013 Inter-Research.