Placental retention in a golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia)

J Zoo Wildl Med. 2005 Dec;36(4):716-8. doi: 10.1638/04096.1.

Abstract

A 4-yr-old female golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia) had placental retention after delivery of a stillborn fetus. Conservative therapy with oxytocin and dinoprost tromethamine did not result in placental expulsion and ovariohysterectomy was performed. Placental retention is a rare condition in humans and has not been well documented in non-human primates.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Animals, Zoo
  • Dinoprost / analogs & derivatives
  • Dinoprost / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Leontopithecus*
  • Monkey Diseases / drug therapy
  • Monkey Diseases / surgery*
  • Oxytocics / pharmacology*
  • Oxytocin / therapeutic use
  • Placenta, Retained / drug therapy
  • Placenta, Retained / surgery
  • Placenta, Retained / veterinary*
  • Pregnancy
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Oxytocics
  • Oxytocin
  • Dinoprost
  • dinoprost tromethamine