Comparison of end-to-side versus side-to-side jejunocecostomy in horses.

Objectives: To compare end-to-side (ES) and side-to-side (SS) jejunocecostomy (JC) in healthy horses.

Study Design: Experimental study in vivo.

Animals: A total of 14 healthy adult horses underwent ventral midline celiotomy, a resection, and either an ES (n = 7) or stapled SS (n = 7) JC.

Multicenter study of factors associated with nonsurvival in hospitalized periparturient goats.

Background: Periparturient reproductive complications appear to be common in hospitalized goats. More information is needed about periparturient reproductive complications and survival in goats with these conditions.

Objective: Identify exposure factors associated with nonsurvival in periparturient does hospitalized ≤1 day or ≥2 days.

Review of venipuncture and intravenous catheterization techniques in pigs.

The number of companion pigs in the US is increasing, as is the frequency with which they present to primary companion care practices. However, pigs are often an understudied species in veterinary curricula, and many students graduate from veterinary school with minimal porcine handling experience. Coupled with the poor peripheral vascular access associated with pigs, this presents a challenge for many new graduates and other primary care veterinarians seeking to improve their knowledge of porcine handling, anatomy, and medical care.

Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs reduce anion secretion and increase apoptosis in equine colonic mucosa ex vivo.

Objective: Right dorsal colitis causes chronic colic associated with long-term treatment with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This study was designed to determine if NSAIDs could inhibit anion transporters that protect against intestinal mucosal injury in other species.

Animals: 20 healthy horses.

Multicenter study of uterine tears and other reproductive complications in periparturient goats presented to veterinary teaching hospitals.

Background: Goats are increasingly popular as both production animals and pets. The frequency of and factors associated with periparturient reproductive complications in goats are largely unreported.

Objectives: (1) To report the frequency of periparturient reproductive complications in does presented to university veterinary hospitals and (2) to identify factors associated with uterine tears in the study population.

Endoscope-assisted three-wire technique for extensive nasal septum resection in horses.

Objective: To describe a 3-wire method with endoscopic guidance for extensive nasal septum resection.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Sample Population: Thirteen horses with nasal septum diseases.

Repeat Celiotomy-Current Status.

Repeat celiotomy can be lifesaving in horses with a surgically treatable postoperative obstruction, although guidelines for its use are lacking, except for uncontrollable postoperative pain. Overdiagnosis of ileus as the cause of postoperative obstruction could delay a second surgery so the disease progresses beyond a manageable level of severity. Although many horses respond favorably to repeat celiotomy, complications can be severe and life threatening, such as incisional infection and adhesions.

Basic Postoperative Care of the Equine Colic Patient.

The 3 time periods around colic surgery (preoperative, operative, and postoperative) are all critical to successful outcomes. Although much focus is often paid to the first 2 time periods, the importance of sound clinical judgment and rational decision-making in the postoperative period cannot be overstated. This article will outline the basic principles of monitoring, fluid therapy, antimicrobial therapy, analgesia, nutrition, and other therapeutics routinely used in patients following colic surgery.

Sedated cesarean sections are associated with increased kid survival compared to general anesthesia in goats: retrospective cohort of 45 cases (2011-2021).

Objective: To determine whether anesthesia type (sedation or general anesthesia) affects kid survival to discharge in caprine cesarean sections (C-sections).

Animals: Retrospective cohort of 99 caprine C-sections (2011-2021).

Procedures: All surgeries were performed via left flank laparotomy in right lateral recumbency.

Surgical enlargement of the epiploic foramen in horses.

Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of a method for digitally enlarging the caudal aspect of the epiploic foramen (EF).

Study Design: Healthy horses and clinical cases of EF entrapment (EFE).

Animals: Fourteen healthy horses and three clinical cases.

Ex vivo and in vivo evaluation of a modified interrupted Lembert pattern for small intestinal anastomoses in horses.

Objective: To compare single-layer anastomoses (modified continuous Lembert [mod-CL] and modified-interrupted Lembert [mod-IL]) and a 2-layer simple continuous anastomosis (2 L; seromuscular and mucosal) for jejunojejunal anastomoses in equine cadavers and to compare ex vivo to in vivo time to complete the anastomosis and stoma size with a mod-IL pattern.

Study Design: Measurements in jejunum from cadaver and anesthetized horses.

Animals: Ten live horses and 18 equine cadavers.

Mechanisms of bicarbonate secretion in the equine colon ex vivo.

Objective: To examine bicarbonate (HCO3-) secretion ex vivo in the equine large colon to determine any differences between the right dorsal colon (RDC) and right ventral colon (RVC). The effect of phenylbutazone (PBZ) on HCO3- secretion was examined in the RDC.

Animals: 14 healthy horses.

J-incision to approach the cranial abdomen in the adult horse.

Objective: To describe a modified celiotomy to improve access to cranial abdominal structures in horses.

Animals: Four horses.

Study Design: Short case series.

Efficacy of orally administered gabapentin in horses with chronic thoracic limb lameness.

Objective: To evaluate the analgesic effects of orally administered gabapentin on horses with chronic thoracic limb lameness.

Study Design: Randomized, crossover design.

Animals: A total of 14 adult horses with chronic thoracic limb lameness.

Effect of lidocaine on inflammation in equine jejunum subjected to manipulation only and remote to intestinal segments subjected to ischemia.

OBJECTIVE To examine effects of continuous rate infusion of lidocaine on transmural neutrophil infiltration in equine intestine subjected to manipulation only and remote to ischemic intestine. ANIMALS 14 healthy horses. PROCEDURES Ventral midline celiotomy was performed (time 0).

Response to early repeat celiotomy in horses after a surgical treatment of jejunal strangulation.

Objective: To determine the outcome after early repeat celiotomy in horses operated for jejunal strangulation.

Study Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: Horses (n = 22) that underwent repeat celiotomy for postoperative reflux (POR) and/or postoperative colic (POC) that did not improve within 48 hours from onset after initial surgical treatment of strangulating jejunal lesions by jejunojejunostomy (n = 14) or no resection (n = 8).