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It is common to have a bird that appears clinically healthy prior to acute death.
 
It is common to have a bird that appears clinically healthy prior to acute death.
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|q2=What are the most likely gross postmortem findings?
 
|q2=What are the most likely gross postmortem findings?
 
|a2= Hepatomegaly (often with a definite bronzed to bluish hue). Other organs are generally unremarkable.
 
|a2= Hepatomegaly (often with a definite bronzed to bluish hue). Other organs are generally unremarkable.
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|q3= What one specific tissue would be the most likely to demonstrate the cause of death?
 
|q3= What one specific tissue would be the most likely to demonstrate the cause of death?
 
|a3= The liver is the predominant and frequently the only organ to be affected. Iron deposition can occasionally be noted in the spleen, kidney, lung, pancreas and intestine.
 
|a3= The liver is the predominant and frequently the only organ to be affected. Iron deposition can occasionally be noted in the spleen, kidney, lung, pancreas and intestine.
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|l3=Iron Storage Disease - Birds#Diagnosis
 
|q4= What other tissues might demonstrate characteristic changes in the bird?
 
|q4= What other tissues might demonstrate characteristic changes in the bird?
 
|a4= Only rarely will iron pigment be identified in tissues other than the liver but these could include kidney, pancreas, intestine and lung, in that order of decreasing frequency of involvement.
 
|a4= Only rarely will iron pigment be identified in tissues other than the liver but these could include kidney, pancreas, intestine and lung, in that order of decreasing frequency of involvement.
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