Intususcepción en un canino de raza French Poodle con resolución quirúrgica.

Abstract

Intestinal obstruction is very common in the clinic of small animals, this pathology is the interruption of intestinal transit, which can be secondary to a blockage of the intestinal lumen or to the absence of intestinal motility. One of the most common causes of obstruction is intussusception, which is described as invagination of an intestinal segment into the lumen of an adjacent segment. A clinical case of a 9-year-old male canine of the French Poodle breed is presented, called Simón, who is admitted to the Animal Center Veterinary Clinic in the city of Cúcuta because he had constant vomiting for several weeks, decay, hyperoxia. According to the owner's testimony, he has been treated in other veterinary clinics without obtaining favorable results. The physical examination revealed pink mucous membranes, restlessness, pain on palpation in the caudal abdomen with abdominal distention, in the laboratory tests no obvious alterations were found, ultrasound revealed a cylindrical structure, multilayer concentric rings, that represent the wall of both intestinal segments, one inside the other. This type of pathology has surgical treatment, which is fully carried out in this clinical case, the technique to be performed is the linea alba celiotomy which consists of incising the skin, subcutaneously until reaching the linea alba to be able to enter the abdominal cavity. then the small intestine is located, a general inspection is carried out in order to locate perforations or ischemic areas that are not easily detected with the ultrasound system. The intussusception is located; to later apply the surgical technique such as enterotomy and anastomosis which seek the elimination of ischemic and necrotic intestinal segments.