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).