Swollen brisket, cow coughing ?

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I noticed one of my 18 month old heifers has fluid in her brisket. I stuck a needle in swollen part and tried extracting fluid, none came out, I also have her a 3 day course of penicillin it didn’t make a difference . She now has a mild cough. The soonest I can get her to a vet is Friday. Any ideas ? PAP? We are at 5,000 feet. Thanks
 

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Could be a number of things but where I'm located, hardware is the first thing that comes to mind with a swollen brisket, especially with a mild cough. Is she losing condition? Does she have a temp? Does she have a bottle jaw? Could be worms. Little young for BLV but a swollen brisket is sometimes a symptom. Hate for you to have to wait until Friday but your vet is the only one that can determine what's really going on.
 
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Could be a number of things but where I'm located, hardware is the first thing that comes to mind with a swollen brisket, especially with a mild cough. Is she losing condition? Does she have a temp? Does she have a bottle jaw? Could be worms. Little young for BLV but a swollen brisket is sometimes a symptom. Hate for you to have to wait until Friday but your vet is the only one that can determine what's really going on.
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So far she is in very good condition, I used long range de wormer so idk about worms ? I also used a pink vaccine a few weeks ago , I wonder if it’s a reaction from the vaccine ?
 
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Your second photo looks like the swelling is up a little higher than a brisket disease critter. The congestive heart failure will have the fluid pooling on the chest floor and then filling up from there and they go downhill pretty fast once it becomes visible. By that point the heart damage is done. When we take bull prospects to the high elevation bull test at University of Wyoming (7200') we PAP at 6 weeks and again at 12-15 weeks. The high PAP bulls usually do not show any visible signs at that point, but as Dr. Holt explained, they will likely already have an enlarged heart and pulmonary damage. We take the high PAP bulls directly to the sale barn and sell them as cutter bulls.
 

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