Comparison of patient outcomes following enterotomy versus intestinal resection and anastomosis for treatment of intestinal foreign bodies in dogs.

Objective: To quantify the relative risk of intestinal dehiscence in dogs undergoing intestinal resection and anastomosis (IRA), compared with enterotomy, for surgical management of small intestinal foreign bodies, and to evaluate the association between nasogastric tube placement for early enteral nutrition (EEN) and hospitalization time.

Animals: 211 dogs undergoing 227 surgeries for intestinal foreign body removal.

Procedures: Medical records were reviewed for dogs undergoing a single-site sutured enterotomy or IRA for foreign body intestinal obstruction between May 2008 and April 2018.

[Personality and rehabilitation in young adults with renal replacement therapy].

To evaluate the personality structure of young adults treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT) since childhood, we studied 36 patients who had commenced RRT before age 18. At the time of investigation 17 patients were dialyzed and 13 had a functioning renal transplant. Of the dialysis patients, 7 had been transplanted previously.