The effects of low-level laser therapy in a rat model of intestinal ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Background And Objective: To investigate the effects of low-level laser therapy applied to the serosal surface of the rat jejunum following ischemia and reperfusion.

Materials And Methods: Ninety-six male Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to 15 groups and anesthetized. Small intestinal ischemia was induced by clamping the superior mesenteric artery for 60 minutes.

Canine hip dysplasia: reviewing the evidence for nonsurgical management.

Objective: To systematically review the evidence available for nonsurgical management of hip dysplasia (HD).

Study Design: Literature review.

Methods: Databases (Pubmed, Veterinary Information Network) were searched for clinical studies on nonsurgical management of HD in dogs.

Diagnosis and treatment of truncal cutaneous pythiosis in a dog.

Case Description: A 4-year-old spayed female Boxer was evaluated for a cutaneous mass located on the dorsum. The mass had been present for 6 weeks and was increasing in size.

Clinical Findings: A mass of approximately 10 cm in diameter was detected on the dorsum cranial to the right ilial wing.

Surgical views: Vacuum-assisted wound closure: clinical applications.

Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) is a wound management system that exposes a wound bed to local negative pressure to promote healing. Benefits of VAC therapy include removal of fluid from the extravascular space, improved circulation, enhanced granulation tissue formation, and increased bacterial clearance. VAC therapy has been used extensively in human patients to treat a variety of acute and chronic wound conditions.

Descriptive report of antebrachial growth deformity correction in 17 dogs from 1999 to 2007, using hybrid linear-circular external fixator constructs.

The radiographic and clinical results from 17 dogs (18 limbs) in which hybrid linear-circular external fixators (HLCEF) were used for the correction of antebrachial growth deformities (AGD) are described, retrospectively. Wedge ostectomy and the application of a type IA or IB HLCEF were performed in all cases. Pre- and postoperative AGD measurements, complications, time to staged destabilization and/or fixator removal, cosmesis, and limb function were evaluated.

Management of humeral and femoral fractures in dogs and cats with linear- circular hybrid external skeletal fixators.

Linear-circular hybrid fixators were used to stabilize humeral and femoral fractures in 21 dogs and five cats. Twenty-two of 24 fractures with sufficient follow-up radiographic evaluation obtained union. Time to radiographic union ranged from 25 to 280 days (mean +/- standard deviation [SD] 110+/-69 days; median 98 days).

Products of heme oxygenase and their potential therapeutic applications.

Heme oxygenase 1 (HO-1) is induced in response to cellular stress and is responsible for converting the prooxidant heme molecule into equimolar quantities of biliverdin (BV), carbon monoxide (CO), and iron. BV is then converted to bilirubin (BR) by the enzyme biliverdin reductase. Experimental evidence suggests that induction of the HO system is an important endogenous mechanism for cytoprotection and that the downstream products of heme degradation, CO, BR, and BV, may mediate these powerful beneficial effects.