Evaluation of two novel self-anchoring barbed sutures in a prophylactic laparoscopic gastropexy compared with intracorporeal tied knots.

Objective: To compare laparoscopic gastropexy using 2 self-anchoring barbed sutures to gastropexy using laparoscopically tied intracorporeal knots.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized controlled, clinical trial.

Animals: Dogs (n = 30) weighing >16 kg.

Comparison of hydroxyapatite-coated and uncoated pins for transfixation casting in horses.

Objective: To determine the extent to which a hydroxyapatite coating promotes pin stability in the third metacarpal bone during transfixation casting in horses.

Animals: 14 adult horses.

Procedures: 7 horses each were assigned to either an uncoated or hydroxyapatite-coated pin group.

Wooden, metallic, hair, bone, and plant foreign bodies in horses: 37 cases (1990-2005).

Objective: To characterize features of diagnosis, treatment, and outcome in horses with foreign bodies, exclusive of enteric, inhaled, and foot-penetrating foreign bodies.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 37 horses with foreign bodies.

Diffuse cylindrical bronchiectasis due to eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy in a dog.

A miniature pinscher-cross was evaluated for chronic coughing. Computed tomography and bronchoscopy revealed severe, diffuse, cylindrical bronchiectasis secondary to eosinophilic bronchopneumopathy. Computed tomography is the gold standard for diagnosis of bronchiectasis in humans, and should be further investigated in dogs as a means of characterizing severity and pattern of disease.

Imaging diagnosis--spontaneous intramural canine duodenal hematoma.

A 9-year-old neutered female Pug with a 2-week history of pancreatitis was presented for dyspnea, icterus, and intractable vomiting. Sonographically, the gallbladder, intrahepatic bile ducts, and common bile duct were distended. The pancreas was hypoechoic with hyperechoic peripancreatic fat.

Hypertrophic osteopathy associated with mycotic pneumonia in two juvenile elk (Cervus elaphus).

Two yearling bull elk (cervus claphus) from the same farm developed anorexia, weight loss, and lameness. On physical examination, both elk were thin and showed diffuse swelling of all lower limbs. Radiographs of the lower limbs showed periosteal thickening of the distal extremities, consistent with hypertrophic osteopathy.

Congenital retrosternal (Morgagni) diaphragmatic hernias in three horses.

Case Description: 3 Horses were examined and treated because of sudden onset of signs of abdominal pain.

Clinical Findings: All horses had a retrosternal (Morgagni) hernia involving the right side of the diaphragm. In each horse, the large colon was incarcerated in a right muscular defect in the diaphragm with a large hernial sac.

Aplastic articular facets in a dog with intervertebral disk rupture of the 12th to 13th thoracic vertebral space.

A 6-year-old, female spayed Pomeranian was presented with acute hind-limb paraplegia with the presence of deep pain perception and urinary incontinence. Myelography showed a Hansen type I herniation of the12th to 13th thoracic intervertebral space (T(12-13)). Articular facets of the T(12-13) and T(13) to first lumbar vertebra (L(1)) were absent.

Radiotherapy of a recurrent ossifying fibroma in the paranasal sinuses of a horse.

A 7-year-old female Thoroughbred was admitted with a history of labored breathing, stridor, and exercise intolerance. Examination revealed a mass in the left paranasal sinuses that was determined to be an ossifying fibroma. Initial treatment consisted of surgical removal of the mass alone; however, the mass recurred 9 months after surgery.