Comparative evaluation of ultrasonography with clinical respiratory score in diagnosis and prognosis of respiratory diseases in weaned dairy buffalo and cattle calves

Table 5 Pre- and post-therapeutic variations of CRS, ULS and laboratory indices in calves with bronchopneumonia (n = 10)

	Control (n = 6)	Pre- and post-therapeutic days
	Control (n = 6)	At admission (0)	5	10	20	30
CRS	1.7 ± 0.2	5.4 ± 0.2^a	3.8 ± 0.2^b	2.6 ± 0.2^c	1.8 ± 0.2^d	1.5 ± 0.2^d
ULS	0.0 ± 0.0	3.4 ± 0.3^a	3.2 ± 0.2^ab	2.9 ± 0.3^abc	2.6 ± 0.2^bc	2.3 ± 0.1^c
RBCs (×10¹²/L)	7.8 ± 0.2	8.4 ± 0.4	8.1 ± 0.3	7.8 ± 0.2	8.2 ± 0.1	8.0 ± 0.1
PCV (%)	27 ± 1	28 ± 0.8	29 ± 0.6	29 ± 0.7	28 ± 0.3	29 ± 0.4
Hemoglobin (g/L)	96 ± 3	97 ± 3	99 ± 2	98 ± 2	102 ± 1	99 ± 1
WBCs (×10⁹/L)	7.7 ± 0.4	11.7 ± 1^a	10.5 ± 0.9^ab	9.3 ± 0.4^b	8.8 ± 0.2^b	9 ± 0.2^b
Total proteins (g/L)	58 ± 1.5	66 ± 3	65 ± 2	63 ± 2	62 ± 1	63 ± 1
Albumin (g/L)	26 ± 0.9	25 ± 1	24 ± 0.9	25 ± 0.7	26 ± 1.1	27 ± 0.6
Globulins (g/L)	32 ± 1.2	41 ± 2	41 ± 2	38 ± 2	36 ± 1	36 ± 1
AST (U/L)	62 ± 6	81 ± 5^a	83 ± 3^a	81 ± 3^a	78 ± 3^ab	69 ± 3^b
GGT (U/L)	24 ± 1.3	23 ± 1.5	21 ± 0.9	20 ± 0.5	22 ± 0.5	21 ± 0.5
Arterial blood gas analysis
pH	7.36 ± 0.01	7.33 ± 0.01	7.32 ± 0.01	7.31 ± 0.02	7.32 ± 0.01	7.32 ± 0.01
PCO₂ (mmHg)	48 ± 2	56 ± 3^a	54 ± 3^ab	51 ± 1^ab	50 ± 2^ab	49 ± 1^b
PO₂ (mmHg)	88 ± 2	58 ± 3^b	66 ± 3^ab	69 ± 2^ab	73 ± 2^ab	75 ± 3^a
Bicarbonate (mmol/L)	29 ± 1	29 ± 0.8	29 ± 0.7	28 ± 0.6	27 ± 0.6	27 ± 0.5
BE (mmol/L)	2.2 ± 0.5	−0.7 ± 1.6	0.9 ± 0.3	0.6 ± 0.3	0.8 ± 0.1	0.6 ± 0.2

CRS Clinical respiratory score, ULS ultrasound lung score
^a,b,c,d values of different superscript letters in the same raw differs significantly (P < 0.05)

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