Stabilisation of femoral capital physeal fractures using transcervical pinning in cats: 19 cases (2014-2022).

Objectives: To report the short-term clinical and radiographic outcomes in cats with femoral capital physeal fractures stabilised with transcervical pinning.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of cats diagnosed with femoral capital physeal fractures and treated with transcervical pinning were reviewed. The collected data included signalment, weight, time from lameness to surgery, reported trauma, affected side, concomitant orthopaedic injuries, radiographs, osteoarthritis, femoral neck osteolysis, proximal femoral epiphysis to femoral neck ratio, fracture reduction, implants, complications and clinical evaluation results.

Risk factors for systemic emboli in infective endocarditis.

A retrospective study was undertaken to analyse the risk factors for systemic emboli in infective endocarditis. Patients (n = 80; 70% males; mean age 65 years; range 20-91 years) with infective endocarditis, as defined by the Duke criteria and diagnosed using transoesophageal echocardiography during the period January 1995 to March 2001, were included. The average time between the start of the illness and the beginning of antibiotic treatment was 55 days (range 0-405 days).