Publications by authors named "M B Hoen"
Objective: To establish lactate and glucose differences between affected and non-affected limbs in cats with feline arterial thromboembolism (FATE). To evaluate the correlation between these values and survival to discharge as well as congestive heart failure (CHF).
Methods: Blood glucose and lactate concentrations were prospectively obtained on admission from client-owned FATE cats and client-owned cats presented for other conditions.
The role of urine sodium in acutely decompensated heart failure.
Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- Diuretic resistance is when medications that help remove extra fluid from the body don’t work well, which can lead to worse health outcomes for patients with heart problems. Researchers looked at how urine sodium levels (how much sodium is in urine) can help adjust these medications to make them more effective.
- The study included 143 patients with heart failure, and they found that those with low urine sodium levels also had other health issues. They measured urine sodium two hours after giving medicine to patients and looked at how this affected hospital visits and overall survival after 90 days.
- The results showed that low urine sodium was common and often found in patients with serious heart and kidney problems,
Case Series Summary: Two cats were referred to a veterinary teaching hospital with a cotton tip applicator (CTA) tracheobronchial foreign body (FB) after induction of anesthesia for an elective dental cleaning. In both cases, a lidocaine-saturated CTA, utilized to desensitize the larynx before endotracheal (ET) intubation, broke when introduced into the oropharynx and was subsequently aspirated into the tracheobronchial tree. Both CTAs were successfully removed bronchoscopically, and the cats survived with no short- or long-term complications noted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Complications of feeding tube placement are uncommon, but life-threatening pneumothorax has been reported in human and veterinary patients during feeding tube placement. This article describes the development of pneumothorax and the outcome associated with misplacement of nasogastric (NG) tubes in the tracheobronchial tree in 13 dogs.
Animals: 13 dogs being treated for various medical conditions that had NG tubes placed in 4 hospitals.