{"topic_id":"exotic_bird_hepatic_lipidosis","category":"exotic-pet-health","context":"---\ntopic_id: exotic_bird_hepatic_lipidosis\ncategory: exotic-pet-health\ntitle: \"Pet bird hepatic lipidosis — obesity and seed-based diets drive fatty liver disease\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Merck Veterinary Manual — Pet bird hepatic lipidosis — obesity and seed-based diets drive fatty liver disease\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_hepatic_lipidosis.txt\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-28\ntokens_estimated: 220\nverified: true\nverification: c1_substring\nsource_document: \"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Merck Veterinary Manual\"\n  title: \"Pet bird hepatic lipidosis — obesity and seed-based diets drive fatty liver disease\"\n  url: \"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/pet-birds/nutritional-diseases-of-pet-birds\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-28\"\n  ref: \"\"\n  doc_type: \"professional veterinary reference\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n# Pet bird hepatic lipidosis\n\nThe text below is reproduced verbatim from the first-hand source (Merck Veterinary Manual).\n\n> Obese birds are more prone to arthritis, fatty liver disease (hepatic lipidosis), atherosclerosis, and cardiac disease.\n> the high incidence of hepatic lipidosis, atherosclerosis, and right-side heart failure in sedentary captive birds consuming primarily seed diets\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_hepatic_lipidosis.txt` (first-hand professional veterinary reference, tag-stripped).\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n- `Obese birds are more prone to arthritis, fatty liver disease (hepatic lipidosis), atherosclerosis, and cardiac disease.`\n- `the high incidence of hepatic lipidosis, atherosclerosis, and right-side heart failure in sedentary captive birds consuming primarily seed diets`\n","sources":["exotic-pet-health — Pet bird hepatic lipidosis — obesity and seed-based diets drive fatty liver disease (retrieved 2026-07-28)"],"source":{"authority":"exotic-pet-health","title":"Pet bird hepatic lipidosis — obesity and seed-based diets drive fatty liver disease","url":"https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/pet-birds/nutritional-diseases-of-pet-birds","retrieved":"2026-07-28","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_hepatic_lipidosis.txt"},"source_document":"Merck Veterinary Manual (professional veterinary reference)","source_file":"pdf-raw/exotic-health/mvm_bird_hepatic_lipidosis.txt","tokens_estimated":220,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}