Resolución de ductus arterioso persistente (DAP) en canino hembra mediante proceso quirúrgico: Reporte de caso clínico.

Abstract

Canine patient, female, Creole race, 2 years of age was presented to consultation. The owner approaches the control appointment in order to obtain a medical certificate that shows the satisfactory health condition of the animal and can take it on a trip meeting the requirements of the airline. Upon palpation, in the precordial area, there was denoting fremitus at the level of the left hemitorax and cardiac auscultation revealed evidence of accentuated murmur in the cranial part of the left hemitorax audible throughout the cardiac cycle, an echocardiogram and an electrocardiogram were performed where, from its results, a Persistent Arterial Duct (DAP) was diagnosed with left-right flow. It is one of the most frequent congenital heart pathologies in canines, presenting more in females than in males; it consists of the permanence of the existing conduit in the fetal life that communicates the pulmonary artery with the descending aorta, in order to oxygenate the organism of the fetus and with a surgical treatment totally resolutive. In the present work a clinical case with this pathology is described, making a revision on the physiopathology that causes the failure in the closure of the duct and the follow-up of the patient making known the diagnostic methods to confirm its existence, as well as the surgical treatment and the subsequent positive recovery of the patient.