Study of Kidney Pathological Investigation in Some cases of Diseases chickens Al-Shammari Sabah Mahmood Hamad1, AL-Karawi Mohammd Abed Mahmood2 1Department of Biotechnology, Collage of Sciences, University of Diyala, Iraq 2Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Diyala, Iraq Online published on 4 June, 2019. Abstract In this study, fifty samples of chickens kidney were collected from different chicken farms in Diyala province to study the pathological lesions (gross and histopathology). The gross appearance revealed different shapes of kidney vary from small size and the paleness of the kidney while the histopathological changes showed necroisis which lead to epithelial lining desquamation of renal tubules. There is an inflammatory cell infiltration specially lymphocytes in the kidney interstitial tissue. Other cases, the histopathological changes in it revealed mesengial cell proliferation of kidney glomeruli and in interstitial tissue observed presence of hemorrhage. In other samples, there is a hyaline degeneration and severe hemorrhage in renal glomeruli. Same samples showed clefts of urates in the renal tubule lumen recorded as visceral gout with inflammatory cell infiltration specially macrophages and foreign body giant cells. Congestion of blood vessels and interstitial tissue hemorrhage. In this study and from the results the concluded, revealed the gross and histopathological changes associated with many chicken diseases. Top Keywords Chickens, kidney, histopathology, nephrosis, gout. Top |