Tibial tuberosity transposition advancement for treatment of concomitant cranial cruciate ligament rupture and medial patellar luxation in four feline stifles.

Case Series Summary: Three cats (four stifles) were diagnosed with varying grades of medial patellar luxation and stifle instability in cranial tibial thrust. Radiographs showed periarticular osteophytosis, intra-articular mineralization and opacification encroachment of the infrapatellar fat pad. Stifle exploration revealed either partial (n = 2) or complete (n = 2) cranial cruciate ligament tear and medial meniscal injury in all cases.

Total hip arthroplasty to address chronic hip luxation with pseudoacetabulum formation in seven dogs.

Objective: To compare the outcome of dogs treated with total hip arthroplasty (THA) for chronic hip luxation and pseudoacetabulum formation to that of dogs with simple hip dysplasia and secondary osteoarthritis.

Study Design: Retrospective, case-controlled study.

Animals: Seven dogs with pseudoacetabulum (group 1) and 21 matched control dogs (group 2).

Comparison of tensile strength and time to closure between an intermittent Aberdeen suture pattern and conventional methods of closure for the body wall of dogs.

OBJECTIVE To compare tensile strength and time to completion of body wall closure among 3 suture patterns. SAMPLE Eighteen 5 × 5-cm leather specimens and sixty-eight 5 × 5-cm full-thickness tissue specimens from the ventral portion of the abdominal body wall of 17 canine cadavers. PROCEDURES During experiment 1 of a 2-experiment study, each leather specimen was cut in half and sutured with a simple interrupted or simple continuous pattern or continuous pattern with intermittent Aberdeen knots (intermittent Aberdeen pattern).