Physico-biochemical characteristics of fetal fluids in uterine torsion affected buffaloes

Abstract

Physical and biochemical characteristics of both allantoic and amniotic fluids of 19 uterine torsion affected buffaloes
were compared with those of 13 dystocia other than uterine torsion and 8 normally calving buffaloes. In the torsion affected
buffaloes, colour of allantoic fluid varied from reddish to dark brown (28.5% to 35 .6%, respectively) while the colour of amniotic
fluid was dirty white in 45.4 % cases. The allantoic fluid of uterine torsion affected buffaloes had significantly higher (P<0.05) levels
of urea, sodium, glutamate pyruvate transaminase (GPT), glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) than normally calving
buffaloes, while the amniotic fluid had significantly (P<0.05) higher levels of urea, phosphorus and GOT than both normally
calving buffaloes and those suffering from dystocias other than uterine torsion. To conclude, the changes registered in certain
biochemical parameters of fetal fluids in both torsion and dystocia affected buffaloes were merely the reflection of stress rather
than an indicator of association with etiopathology of uterine torsion.