1994 Volume 47 Issue 8 Pages 553-556
After a single subcutaneous injection with 1 mg of a long-active prostaglandin F2α(PGF2α) analogue, Fenprostalene (A-75), into cows with the retained placenta by 8 hours after expulsion of fetuses, the fetal membrane was expelled within 4 days in 9 of 27 cases (33.3%). In the other group of cows with lochiometra, which showed fever and poor appetite for 4 to 14 days after parturition, showing the uterine horns 8 or more fingers in width. Eleven of 16 cases (68.8%) expelled a large quantity of lochia within 3 days after treatment with A-75, and clinical recovery was seen with the uterine involution. In another group of cows with pyometra and the uterine horns 8 or more fingers in width sinking across the abdominal cavity for 37 to 165 days after parturition, all the cases expelled a large quantity of pus within 3 days after A-75 treatment, resulting in the uterine involution.
