Oh Future Test Questions…
Though I am loath to post veterinary related material, this was pretty funny to me.
This is a sample question from a test that will determine whether or not I am capable to practice veterinary medicine. Waterbelly. Flip-over Disease. Round Heart Disease. Lolz.
You answered C, but the correct answer was A.
This is ascites in a chicken. Suddenly dead or cyanotic, panting chickens with abdomens distended by ascites fluid suggests ascites syndrome (waterbelly). Essentially a form of right ventricular heart failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension or more rarely, hepatic failure.
Because broilers affected with ascites syndrome frequently die on their backs, differential diagnosis includes flip-over disease.
Another cardiomyopathy to remember is round heart disease (spontaneous cardiomyopathy), but that is a disease of turkeys.
