Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Q&A 09

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Your triage nurse alerts you that a three-year-old, male Coonhound (40 kg) with a few hours’ history of non-productive retching and pacing has entered the hospital. Primary survey reveals poor perfusion, rapid and irregular heart rate, and a tympanic, distended cranial abdomen. A lateral radiograph reveals gastric dilatation and volvulus.


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What are the pros and cons of the following surgical procedures for preventing gastric volvulus from recurring:
  • circumcostal gastropexy;
  • antral incisional gastropexy;
  • tube gastropexy;
  • midline abdominal closure gastropexy?
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What vessels are most commonly torn during a gastric dilatation/volvulus episode, and where are these located? [[|Link to Article]]
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