HISTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SEPSIS EXPERIMENTALLY INDUCED BY CECAL LIGATION AND PUNCTURE IN RATS

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the histopathological lesions in theliver,kidney and lung sections in rats with sepsis that experimentally induced by cecalligation and puncture CLP procedure to induce intra-abdominal infection. It was foundthat CLP models leads to higher mortality rate comparisons to sham-operated and un–operated animals. Also there were severe lesions in the liver , kidney and lung of ratswith sepsis , characterized by severe massive necrosis in hepatic cells , while thehistopathological changes in kidney of CLP rats revealed severe glomerulonehritis withinfiltration of inflammatory cells , in lung , severe interstitial and bronchial pneumonia ,with presence of severe thickening of blood vessel wall with thrombi . In conclusion, theresults of this study have demonstrated that CLP induces high mortality rate , an acutesystemic septic state with multiple organ dysfunction especially the Liver , kidney andLung based on histopathological observations . These features were not observed in sham- operated or un-operated rats .