Emergencia veterinaria, distensión – torsión vólvulo gástrica en canino Pastor Alemán. Reporte de un caso clínico.

Abstract

Gastric volvulus dilatation syndrome (DGV) is a situation of medical and surgical emergency due to the rapid accumulation of air, food and liquid at gastric level that causes stretching and displacement of the stomach, triggering hemodynamic changes resulting from blood compression of caudal vena cava and peripheral vessels leading to ischemia, necrosis of the gastric mucosa, and endotoxic shock, which can generate an inflammatory response syndrome and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. This case describes the history and evolution of canine patient, eight years old, was admitted to the clinic by nausea, excessive salivation, apathy, abdominal distension and dyspnea. Initially was established fluid to stabilize the patient and radiographic making was introduced, showing gastric dilatation volvulus. The patient undergoes emergency corrective surgery with gastropexy, postoperative intensive care and was discharged eighty hours after admission.