Vomiting and Gastrointestinal Obstruction in a Red-Footed Tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract A 27-yr-old female red-footed tortoise ( Chelonoidis carbonaria ) was presented for examination because of an acute onset of frequent vomiting. Plasma biochemistry and blood gas results revealed that the tortoise had hyperproteinemia, hyperglycemia, hypochloremia, and metabolic alkalosis. A computed tomography scan showed a focal dilation of the proximal duodenum with a fluid filled duodenum and stomach. A plastronotomy followed by a gastrotomy were performed and a phytobezoar was removed from the pyloric antrum. The metabolic disorders and anorexia resolved over the following three weeks. The tortoise appeared healthy a year later with no recurrence of gastrointestinal signs. Obstructive phytobezoar appears to be a rare occurrence in tortoises. This report documents the metabolic disturbances and advanced imaging findings observed with proximal gastrointestinal obstruction in a chelonian patient.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".