Stapled functional end-to-end intestinal anastomosis with endovascular gastrointestinal anastomosis staplers in cats and small dogs.

Objectives: To investigate the use of endovascular gastrointestinal stapling devices to perform intestinal functional end-to-end stapled anastomosis in small dogs and cats.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of dogs (≤10 kg) and cats that underwent intestinal resection and functional end-to-end stapled anastomosis with an endovascular gastrointestinal anastomosis (endovascular-GIA) stapling device at five small animal referral centres between April 2014 and September 2023 were retrospectively reviewed. Data including clinical findings, surgical technique, histopathology and complications were collected.

Prospective randomized trial comparing relapse rates in dogs with steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis treated with a 6-week or 6-month prednisolone protocol.

Background: Traditionally, 6-month courses of prednisolone are used to treat steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA), but this medication is associated with adverse effects that can lead to poor quality of life.

Hypothesis/objectives: Resolution of clinical signs and rate of relapse of SRMA would not be significantly different between a 6-month prednisolone protocol and a 6-week protocol.

Animals: Forty-four hospital cases from multiple referral centers in the United Kingdom (2015-2019).

Complications and outcomes of cats with coxofemoral luxation treated with hip toggle stabilization using ultrahigh-molecular-weight-polyethylene or nylon (2009-2018): 48 cats.

Objective: To report overall rate and type of complications and outcomes of cats with coxofemoral luxation managed with hip toggle stabilization (HTS), to compare rate of postoperative complications and outcomes of cats treated with ultrahigh-molecular-weight-polyethylene (UHMWPE) or nylon, and to identify risk factors for reluxation and non-excellent outcomes.

Study Design: Multi-institutional retrospective cohort study.

Sample Population: Forty-eight client-owned cats.

Comparison of nerve conduction parameters in canine studies using recording needle and surface electrodes.

Surface electrodes have been used in electromyography and nerve conduction studies in human and veterinary medicine, but comparisons have not been made between surface and needle electrode recordings in dogs. Our aim in this method comparison study was to determine whether surface electrodes captured larger compound motor action potentials (CMAP) than needle electrodes. Tibial nerve CMAP from 25 dogs with normal limb function was acquired using both surface and needle recording electrodes; the stimulus was elicited with monopolar concentric needles.

2-Hydroxyglutaric aciduria as a cause for seizure-like episodes in a domestic shorthair cat.

Case Summary: A 14-month-old male castrated domestic shorthair cat, which 2 months prior to presentation underwent hindlimb amputation following a road traffic accident, presented for investigation of four suspected generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Neurological examination was unremarkable. Routine blood work (haematology, biochemistry, ammonia, preprandial bile acids) was unremarkable.

Feline shoulder luxation: a cadaveric study of injury and repair using ligament prostheses.

Objectives: To describe the range of motion and clinical stability of the feline shoulder following experimental injury and repair using a prosthetic suture technique.

Materials And Methods: Eighteen feline cadaveric thoracic limbs were randomly allocated into three groups: medial injury, lateral injury or bilateral injury. Joint range of motion and clinical stability in all directions was recorded before and after specific anatomic structures were sectioned and following surgical repair using a prosthetic suture technique.

Skull pathology in 10 cats with patellar fracture and dental anomaly syndrome.

Case Series Summary: The aim of this case series is to describe the clinical and radiological features of mandibular and maxillary abnormalities in cats diagnosed with patellar fractures and dental anomalies, a condition that we have named 'patellar fracture and dental anomaly syndrome' (PADS), also known previously as 'knees and teeth syndrome'. Where available, clinical records, skull and/or intraoral dental radiographs, head CT images, microbiology and histopathology reports were collected, and follow-up was obtained. Ten cats with mandibular or maxillary abnormalities were identified.

Outcome of surgical stabilisation of acetabular fractures in 16 cats.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the presentation, surgical management and perioperative outcome of cats with acetabular fractures.

Methods: Case records and radiographs of cats with acetabular fractures were reviewed from presentation to the end of follow-up. Surgical technique, complications, radiographic reduction and the presence of neurological deficits were recorded.

25-Hydroxy vitamin D3 serum concentration in dogs with acute polyradiculoneuritis compared to matched controls.

Objectives: To determine if dogs with acute polyradiculoneuritis have lower serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 concentration compared to a control group of dogs with idiopathic epilepsy.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective case-control study of 21 dogs with acute canine polyradiculoneuritis and 21 control dogs with idiopathic epilepsy matched for year and season of presentation from a referral hospital population in the UK. Serum concentration of 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 was compared between groups using Student's t-test.

An exploratory study into factors influencing development of acute canine polyradiculoneuritis in the UK.

Objectives: To investigate whether the development of acute canine polyradiculoneuritis is associated with various putative risk factors.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective case-control study with conditional logistic regression analysis from a referral hospital population in the UK where controls were matched for year of presentation.

Results: Forty-three cases were identified with acute canine polyradiculoneuritis and 86 controls were selected.

The impact of demographic, social, and environmental factors on the development of steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) in the United Kingdom.

Background: Steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) is an inflammatory disease of dogs that is suspected to be immune-mediated. The development of other immune-mediated diseases has been linked to vaccinations, time of the year, geographic location, sex, neuter status, and breed.

Hypothesis/objectives: To identify if the development of SRMA is associated with time of year, vaccination, geographic location, sex, neuter status, and breed.

Screening diagnostics to identify triggers in 21 cases of steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis.

Objectives: To evaluate whether screening tests used to identify infectious and neoplastic triggers for immune-mediated haemolytic anaemia, in particular a complete blood count and differential, serum biochemistry profile, urine analysis (including culture), abdominal ultrasound and thoracic radiographs, can identify triggers for steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis.

Methods: Retrospective descriptive review.

Results: Twenty-one steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis cases were identified in which all screening tests had been performed.