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Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is characterized by progressive growth of cysts in renal parenchyma leading to organ compression, enlargement and impairment, which results in chronic renal failure. The disease is common in Persian kittens, dogs, ferrets, sheep, pigs and horses. This is a case report of polycystic kidney disease in agouti, Dasyprocta azarae, which diagnosis was made by necropsy and histophatological findings and by azotemia. The cause of death was chronic kidney failure caused by PKD [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Chelonoidis carbonaria presented with clinical signs of dermatitis after burn throughout the area of the carapace, plastron and members, and eroded areas on the hull with solutions of continuity with the underlying bony plates. The animal was submitted to the removal of all horny, burning and/or eroded, with subsequent antisepsis of the bone framework, replaced by applying tape rayon/viscose and acrylic resin. Antibiotic therapy was instituted and intra coelomic fluid. The replacement of the shell resin was efficient and promoted full recovery of the animal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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