Surgical casuistic in dogs at a Veterinary Hospital - Piauí State Federal University

Authors

  • Nhirneyla Marques Rodrigues Universidade Federal do Piauí
  • Ana Maria Quessada Universidade Paranaense, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal
  • Ana Paula Barros Fonseca Universidade Federal do Piauí, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3343-9015
  • Sávio Soares Barbosa Dantas Universidade Federal do Piauí
  • Jaqueline Lustosa Rodrigues Camapum Universidade Federal do Piauí
  • Filipi Alexandre do Nascimento Silva Universidade Federal do Piauí, Centro de Ciências Agrárias, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciência Animal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2019.146660

Keywords:

Canines, Surgery, Survey, Ovariohysterectomy

Abstract

The objective of this report was to record surgical procedures performed in 241 dogs in a teaching veterinary hospital. There were 40 elective surgical procedures (16.6%) and 201 therapeutic surgical procedures (83.4%). The most frequent procedure was ovariohysterectomy (OH), 65% (26/40) and 24.38% (49/201), respectively, for elective and therapeutic surgical procedures. Among therapeutic surgical procedures were registered fracture reduction (16.91%, 34/201), mastectomies (13.93%, 28/201), drainage of the otohematoma (12.94%; 26/201) and ophthalmic surgical procedures (5.47%, 11/201). The high percentage of therapeutic surgical procedures conducted demonstrates the complexity of the cases attended daily in a teaching veterinary hospital.

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Published

2019-06-26

Issue

Section

CASE REPORT

How to Cite

Surgical casuistic in dogs at a Veterinary Hospital - Piauí State Federal University. (2019). Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, 56(1), e146660. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1678-4456.bjvras.2019.146660