Retrospective study of the early clinical experience with a precontoured angle-stable interlocking nail for fracture repair in dogs and cats.

Objective: To report indications, outcomes, and complications with a precontoured angle-stable interlocking nail (CAS-ILN).

Animals: 90 client-owned animals.

Methods: Dogs and cats treated with the CAS-ILN between 2020 and 2022 were retrospectively reviewed.

Concurrent bucket handle meniscal tear treated with arthroscopic partial meniscectomy does not influence midterm outcomes after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy.

Objective: To assess the effect of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy in dogs with bucket handle meniscal tears and tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO), compared with dogs with cranial cruciate ligament rupture and no meniscal tear treated by TPLO alone.

Animals: 30 client-owned dogs with cranial cruciate rupture treated by either TPLO and arthroscopy alone if the meniscus was normal (normal meniscus [NM] group, n = 14) or by TPLO and an arthroscopic partial meniscectomy if a bucket handle tear was diagnosed (meniscal tear [MT] group, n = 16).

Methods: Medical records, lameness score, and symmetry gait analysis parameters were retrospectively collected from patient records preoperatively (PreO), then at 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively (M1, M3, and M6, respectively).

Ex vivo postimplantation biomechanical properties of a press-fit cementless femoral stem with transfixation pin for canine total hip replacement.

Objective: To compare ex vivo postimplantation biomechanical characteristics of 3 implants for canine total hip replacement: a cementless press-fit femoral stem with a pin in the femoral neck (p-pfFS), a press-fit cementless femoral stem without this pin (pfFS), and a cemented femoral stem (cFS).

Sample: 18 cadaveric femurs from 9 dogs.

Procedures: Femurs were assigned randomly to 3 groups, and biomechanical testing was performed by measuring vertical displacement during cyclic loading and resistance to failure with compression parallel to the longitudinal axis of the femur.

Mechanical evaluation of a novel angle-stable interlocking nail in a gap fracture model.

Objective: To describe the mechanical characteristics of a novel angle-stable interlocking nail (NAS-ILN) and compare them to those of a locking compression plate (LCP) by using a gap-fracture model.

Study Design: Experimental study.

Sample Population: Synthetic bone models.

Anatomical features of the canine C2-C3 spinal cord vascular environment.

Objective: Interarcuate branch (IAB) is a vascular structure, particularly developed in C2-3 intervertebral space, forming a dorsal bridge that connects ventral venous plexi in the vertebral canal. While precisely described in the human, the precise anatomical features of IABs have not been reported in the veterinary literature. The purpose of this study is to describe the features and relations of IABs in the C2-3 vertebral canal.