Uretrostomia escrotal con cistotomía en un canino de raza shih tzu de ocho años por litiasis uretral y vesical.

Abstract

This report presents the case of an eight-year-old male Shih tzu dog with a history of urinary obstruction and a previous cystotomy. Who came to the consultation on February 7 of 2023 with signs of pain and dysuria, to which a complete blood count, blood chemistry, urinalysis and ultrasound were performed, finding two bladder and urethral uroliths, a surgical resolution was carried out in which performed a scrotal cystotomy and urethrostomy. It started with the cystotomy; extracting a urolith from the bladder, after which an orchiectomy with scrotal ablation and urethrostomy was performed, extracting two uroliths from the pelvic urethra. The patient presented some post-operative difficulties, attending a follow-up appointment with post-surgical infection and rejection of the suture; He was treated pharmacologically using gentamicin 5 mg/kg injected, and in the recipe with antibiotic using enrofloxacin, anti-inflammatory AINES with firocoxib, finally on March 25 of 2023 the patient's treatment ended, showing great improvement and complete healing of both surgical wounds.