Hybrid Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty in an Adult Dog with Congenital Mitral Stenosis and Left Atrial Thrombus.

• Congenital MS is a rare cardiac disease in canines. • BMV may improve the mobility of stenotic mitral leaflets. • AF and LA thrombi may occur in congenital MS.

Ex vivo comparison of different thoracoabdominal stapler sizes for typhlectomy in canine cadavers.

Objective: To determine the influence of staple size on leakage pressure of typhlectomy sites in canine cadavers.

Study Design: Randomized, experimental cadaveric study.

Animals: Twenty-four fresh canine cadavers.

Multimodal imaging of bacterial-host interface in mice and piglets with endocarditis.

Acute bacterial endocarditis is a rapid, difficult to manage, and frequently lethal disease. Potent antibiotics often cannot efficiently kill that colonizes the heart's valves. relies on virulence factors to evade therapeutics and the host's immune response, usurping the host's clotting system by activating circulating prothrombin with staphylocoagulase and von Willebrand factor-binding protein.

Sentinel lymph node detection differs when comparing lymphoscintigraphy to lymphography using water soluble iodinated contrast medium and digital radiography in dogs.

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping by various means has become standard of care in certain types of human cancers and is receiving more attention in veterinary oncology. Current SLN mapping techniques can be costly and often require advanced imaging equipment. The objective of this prospective, method comparison study was to compare an SLN mapping protocol of lymphoscintigraphy to lymphography using water soluble iodinated contrast medium (WIC) and digital radiography for identification of an SLN.