Retrospective evaluation of perioperative clinical outcomes of diaphyseal femoral fractures repaired with the string-of-pearls locking plate system with adjunctive fixation.

Objective: To evaluate outcomes and complication rate of utilizing a string-of-pearls (SOP) plate augmented with adjunctive fixation in the repair of canine femur fractures.

Methods: Records of canine patients with mid-diaphyseal femoral fractures repaired with the SOP plate and adjunctive fixation were reviewed. Information retrieved from medical records included signalment, patient weight, fracture configuration, repair technique, healing time, and complications based on perioperative radiographic follow-up to clinical union.

Clinical presentation and short-term outcomes of dogs ≥15 kg with extrahepatic portosystemic shunts.

Objective: To describe demographics, clinical presentation, shunt anatomy, clinical progression, and complications in large dogs ≥15 kg with single extrahepatic portosystemic shunts (EHPSS) treated with or without surgery.

Study Design: Multicenter retrospective (10 university hospitals, one private referral institution).

Animals: Dogs ≥15 kg (n = 63).

Linear external skeletal fixation applied in minimally invasive fashion for stabilization of nonarticular tibial fractures in dogs and cats.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of linear external skeletal fixation (ESF) applied using minimally invasive techniques in dogs and cats.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: Forty-nine dogs and 6 cats.

Diagnosis and successful management of an extradural compressive hematoma secondary to diphacinone poisoning in a dog.

Objective: To describe the successful case management of an extradural hematoma secondary to anticoagulant rodenticide toxicity causing spinal compression and paraplegia.

Case Summary: A 3-month-old, female intact, mixed breed dog was presented for a 12-hour history of paraplegia. CBC and biochemistry results were unremarkable, and a coagulation panel revealed prolonged prothrombin time with normal activated partial thromboplastin time.

Micro-arteriovenous malformation causing spontaneous metacarpal pad hemorrhage in a dog.

A 5-year-old neutered male Labrador retriever dog with a 3-year history of intermittent hemorrhage from the right metacarpal pad was evaluated. A small region of hyperattenuation of the metacarpal pad was evident on computed tomographic angiography. Excisional biopsy of the location of the purported hemorrhage revealed a micro-arteriovenous malformation on histologic examination.