Puerperal haemoglobinuria: Haemoglobinuria Puerperalis

Puerperal haemoglobinuria is a sporadic disease that appears in cows before the fourth week after calving and is manifested as haemoglobinuria and haemolytic anaemia. Haemoglobinuria puerperalis was diagnozed at a private mini cattle farm on the grounds of anamnestic data and the results of clinical examinations, and it was confirmed with the results of laboratory examinations of blood samples. In the course of the disease, characteristic symptoms developed, there was clearly visible paleness of the mucosa, slightly expressed ichtherus of the eyelid ridge skin, and haemoglobinuria. Having in mind the very expressed oligocytemic hypochromic anaemia, therapy was directed at the primary disease and a blood transfusion was administered.