Occurrence and pathology of renal lesions in buffaloes

Abstract

In the current study, a total of 1214 buffalo urine system specimens were macroscopically inspected. 368 kidney specimens with macroscopic lesions were processed for further histological analysis out of this total. These tissue samples from kidney showing gross lesions were collected in 10% NBF and processed for histopathological evaluation. Histopathological examination revealed overall occurrence of various pathological conditions of kidney as 30.31 percent (368 out of 1214). It was found that interstitial nephritis (26.63%) was most frequent lesion found followed by circulatory disturbances (25%), glomerulonephritis (20.65%), suppurative inflammatory conditions (8.69%), nephrosis (8.42%), miscellaneous condition (5.16%), malformation and cystic lesions (4.89%) and tuberculosis (0.54%). The predominant pathological conditions in kidney were interstitial nephritis, circulatory disturbance, and glomerulonephritis.