Tooth aspiration in two cats following maxillofacial trauma.

Case Series Summary: Tooth aspiration is a rare occurrence in human medicine, and even more so in veterinary medicine. This report describes two cats that aspirated a tooth (one canine tooth and one premolar tooth) following maxillofacial trauma. One cat presented with dyspnoea, while the other showed no respiratory clinical signs.

Dog bite wounds in cats: a retrospective study of 72 cases.

Objectives: Bite wounds are a common cause of trauma in cats; nevertheless, large-scale studies of this trauma in cats are lacking. The aims of the present study were to characterise the clinical and clinicopathological findings in these cats, to assess the association of these variables and therapeutic measures with survival, and to assess the association between the animal trauma triage (ATT) score and severity of injuries score (SS) at presentation with survival.

Methods: The medical records of cats presented to a veterinary teaching hospital and two large referral clinics were reviewed retrospectively.

Acute mesenteric ischemia-like syndrome associated with suspected Spirocerca lupi aberrant migration in dogs.

Objective: To describe acute mesenteric infarction due to suspected Spirocerca lupi aberrant migration in 5 dogs.

Case Series Summary: All dogs were large breed, none of which exhibited typical clinical signs associated with spirocercosis. All dogs were eventually diagnosed with septic peritonitis.