Informe de pasantía en la Clínica Veterinaria de pequeños animales de la Universidad de Pamplona (CVUP). Reporte de caso clínico: Obstrucción por cuerpo extraño lineal en felino de 1 año.

Abstract

In veterinarian clinicals for small animals it is very common to treat patients with gastrointestinal tract by strange objects. Cats have a special predilection to be clogged up because of thread rolls into the gastrointestinal tract. In this report it is exposed the clinical case of an one year old mongrel cat admitted to the consultation to the CVUP because it presents loss of appetite, vomiting from 3 days ago and anorexia. On clinical examination it presented abdominal pain when palpation, dehydration and its physiological constants were normal. According to the presented symtomps; different differential diagnoses were proposed, such as pancreatitis, hepatic lipidosis and “triaditis”. Ultrasonography and x-rays were used as a diagnostic aid, these revealed a strange body at stomach level and in a small intestine portion. When conducting the clinical examination, it was observed that the thread was attached to the lower face of the tongue. The surgical procedure (enterotomy) consisted of making 3 cuts in different portions of the intestine removing much of the thread successfully. One week later, it returned to consultation for stitches removal and the owner reported that the cat vomited again the previous day. Looking into, the owner had given it the analgesic Meloxicam during eight days gastritis to the cat. After treating the gastritis appropriately, the cat ate with normality again.