Intra-abdominal complications following intestinal anastomoses by suture and staple techniques in dogs.

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of intra-abdominal complications in dogs following resection and functional end-to-end stapled anastomosis (FEESA) versus anastomosis with an end-to-end sutured technique for treatment of enteric lesions. DESIGN Multicenter, retrospective descriptive cohort study. ANIMALS 180 dogs.

Wear testing of a canine hip resurfacing implant that uses highly cross-linked polyethylene.

Hip resurfacing offers advantages for young, active patients afflicted with hip osteoarthritis and may also be a beneficial treatment for adult canines. Conventional hip resurfacing uses metal-on-metal bearings to preserve bone stock, but it may be feasible to use metal-on-polyethylene bearings to reduce metal wear debris while still preserving bone. This study characterized the short-term wear behavior of a novel hip resurfacing implant for canines that uses a 1.

Fracture repair using a polyaxial locking plate system (PAX).

Objectives: To report outcomes and complications of dog and cat fractures treated with the polyaxial locking plate system (PAX).

Study Design: Case series.

Animals: Dogs (n = 60) and 2 cats.

Successful replacement of an obstructed ureter with an ileal graft in a cat.

Case Description: A 10-year-old spayed female domestic shorthair cat with a 1-week history of vomiting, lethargy, and anorexia was examined.

Clinical Findings: Abdominal radiography and ultrasonography revealed that calculi and a nonpatent stricture obstructed the right ureter, which resulted in secondary dilatation of the ureter proximal to the obstruction and severe hydronephrosis. The left kidney was small and suspected to be failing.

Radiographic and clinical changes of the tibial tuberosity after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy.

Objective: To investigate radiographic changes of the tibial tuberosity after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) surgery and identify clinical findings and risk factors associated with such changes.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Sample Population: Hundred and eighty-six client-owned dogs (219 stifles) that had TPLO surgery.

Cardiopulmonary bypass in the cat.

Objective: To assess the physiologic response to, and acute survival of, cats undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and to evaluate the efficacy of a commercial human pediatric oxygenator system on cats weighing less than 6 kg.

Study Design: Experimental study.

Animals: Six intact male cats

Methods: Cats were placed on cardiopulmonary bypass by cannulating the cranial and caudal vena cavae and the carotid artery.

Evaluation of a free vascularized medial tibial bone graft in dogs.

Objective: To develop a free vascularized tibial bone graft based on the periosteal saphenous blood supply.

Study Design: Preliminary anatomic study of medial tibial blood supply. In vivo comparison of a vascularized and avascular tibial bone graft.

Evaluation of a hypertonic saline-dextran solution for treatment of dogs with shock induced by gastric dilatation-volvulus.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that small volumes of hypertonic saline-dextran (HSD) solution can be used to effectively resuscitate dogs in shock induced by gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV), and, compared with administration of large volumes of lactated Ringer's solution (LRS), can be used to limit the overall volume of fluid needed for resuscitation.

Design: Prospective, clinical study.

Animals: 15 dogs with GDV-induced shock.

Factors associated with perioperative mortality in dogs with surgically managed gastric dilatation-volvulus: 137 cases (1988-1993).

Objective: To evaluate factors associated with perioperative mortality in dogs with gastric dilatation-volvulus and to determine the influence of treatment differences between university and private specialty practices on outcome.

Design: Retrospective analysis of medical records.

Animals: 137 dogs with gastric dilatation-volvulus.

Vagal innervation influences the whole body oxygen consumption-delivery relationship in the dog.

Vagotomy alters regional blood flow distribution by interrupting the tonic central inhibitory effect of cardiopulmonary vagal afferent nerves on sympathetic outflow predominantly to the renal, splanchnic, and cutaneous circulations. We hypothesized that the alteration of blood flow distribution by vagotomy would lead to disruption of the oxygen consumption-oxygen delivery relationship (VO2/DO2), increase critical DO2 (DO2Crit), and decrease whole-body oxygen extraction ratio (O2ER). Nineteen chloralose-anesthetized, paralyzed, splenectomized dogs were submitted to either bilateral vagosympathectomy (n = 7), bilateral vagotomy (n = 6), or sham denervation (n = 6) following baseline cardiorespiratory parameter measurement.

Comparative effects of 7% NaCl in 6% dextran 70 and 0.9% NaCl on oxygen transport in endotoxemic dogs.

We compared the effects of 7% NaCl in 6% dextran 70 (HSD) and 0.9% NaCl (IS) resuscitation of endotoxic dogs on hemodynamic and cardiorespiratory parameters and the oxygen consumption-delivery relationship. Escherichia coli endotoxin (3 mg.