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November 2024
Veterinary Referral Associates, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Case Summary: A 15-year-old male castrated domestic shorthair cat was presented for acute lethargy, vomiting and hyporexia. Abdominal and thoracic radiographs revealed a caudal thoracic/esophageal soft tissue opacity with concern for an esophageal mass or an esophageal foreign body. Esophagoscopy confirmed the presence of a large, irregular, mid-esophageal mass.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Cases
February 2024
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2192, Japan.
Background: Atrio-esophageal fistula is a rare but still a catastrophic complication of radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation. We report a successful case of atrio-esophageal fistula with right posterolateral thoracotomy and right femoral cannulation of cardiopulmonary bypass.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old man underwent radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation.
Asian J Endosc Surg
January 2024
Department of Gastrointestinal and Pediatric Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan.
Aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) is a rare but life-threatening pathology. We report a case of a primary AEF that was successfully managed with temporary thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) and esophagectomy with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. A 73-year-old man was transferred to the emergency department with a complaint of hematemesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio)
March 2023
Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Background: Nutritional support has become an essential part of modern veterinary medicine. Among different techniques, esophagostomy tubes have been used extensively in dogs and cats. However, general anesthesia is typically required due to the critical step of passing an instrument orally to allow identification of the esophagus in the midcervical region.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Feline Med Surg
October 2022
University of Lyon, VetAgro Sup, Veterinary Campus of Lyon, Department of Companion Animals, Marcy L'Etoile, France.
Objectives: The aims of this study were to describe diseases, complications and outcomes associated with the use of feeding tubes in a population of sick cats with appetite disturbance managed at an internal medicine referral service.
Methods: Clinicopathological data from cats receiving nasoenteral (NE) or oesophagostomy (O) tubes were studied. Cats were categorised according to their underlying disease and divided into subgroups (NE or O tube).
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