tstmard
04-25-2009, 04:03 PM
I'm just going to type off what the results are so then those of you who understand this clinical stuff will be able to understand it.
The following tissues were all normal: lung, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, skeletal muscle and skin.
Histologic Diagnoses:
Epithial hyperpasia with orthokeratosis and parakeratosis, chorinc diffuse, severe with intralesional hyphae, pseudohyphae and yeast (blastospores)(Candida sp), crop
Comments: The lesion within the crop and the morphology of the intralesional fungal organisms are consistent with infection by the species of Candida, likely Candida albicans. Given the extent and severity of the lesion, this is considered the cause of the clinical decline and death of this parrotlet. Candidiasis is a relatively common crop disorder seen in young, ofter hand fed birds. Candida spp are normal inhabitants of the alimentary tract of animals and exist as budding yeasts in association with mucosa surfaces. When there are changes in the mucosal surface or normal microflora of the mucosa, the yeast may become invasive forming branching, filamentous pseudohyphae and hyphae. Hyphae formation is favered by carbohydrates such as sucrose, or polysaccharides which are less readily fermentable then glucose. Glucose is a necessary for keratinolysis by the fungus. An endotoxin released during reproduction and death of the Candida organisms may cause local tissue damage and permit deeper penetration into the squamous epithium. In sever cases, there can be systemic dissemination of the organism; this was not seen in this case.
So there it is. To me it's proof that the place that I got both Cheebee from and Dusk(my budgie who died) don't know what they are doing when they hand feed and therefore gave my 2 babies a death sentence.:mad: All they see is a $ sign when they hand feed birds and probably just do it and move onto the next birds without being carefull as to how deep they go with the handfeeding thing or how much food they put in the crop. The vet did say that this is often caused by over filling the crop.
I just keep thinking how if I might of caught it sooner I could of had them treated and would of had my babies still.:(
The following tissues were all normal: lung, heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, skeletal muscle and skin.
Histologic Diagnoses:
Epithial hyperpasia with orthokeratosis and parakeratosis, chorinc diffuse, severe with intralesional hyphae, pseudohyphae and yeast (blastospores)(Candida sp), crop
Comments: The lesion within the crop and the morphology of the intralesional fungal organisms are consistent with infection by the species of Candida, likely Candida albicans. Given the extent and severity of the lesion, this is considered the cause of the clinical decline and death of this parrotlet. Candidiasis is a relatively common crop disorder seen in young, ofter hand fed birds. Candida spp are normal inhabitants of the alimentary tract of animals and exist as budding yeasts in association with mucosa surfaces. When there are changes in the mucosal surface or normal microflora of the mucosa, the yeast may become invasive forming branching, filamentous pseudohyphae and hyphae. Hyphae formation is favered by carbohydrates such as sucrose, or polysaccharides which are less readily fermentable then glucose. Glucose is a necessary for keratinolysis by the fungus. An endotoxin released during reproduction and death of the Candida organisms may cause local tissue damage and permit deeper penetration into the squamous epithium. In sever cases, there can be systemic dissemination of the organism; this was not seen in this case.
So there it is. To me it's proof that the place that I got both Cheebee from and Dusk(my budgie who died) don't know what they are doing when they hand feed and therefore gave my 2 babies a death sentence.:mad: All they see is a $ sign when they hand feed birds and probably just do it and move onto the next birds without being carefull as to how deep they go with the handfeeding thing or how much food they put in the crop. The vet did say that this is often caused by over filling the crop.
I just keep thinking how if I might of caught it sooner I could of had them treated and would of had my babies still.:(