Desplazamiento Dorsal Derecho De Colon Mayor Y Enterolito En Colon Menor En Yegua Criolla Colombiana.

Abstract

Acute abdominal syndrome is a pathological manifestation of great importance in horses causing a lot of pain that can affect their gastrointestinal tract and cause their death, being one of the pathologies with the highest mortality rate existing, this condition presents approximately 4. 2 events per 100 horses per year, equivalent to 4.2% of the horses that experience one or more episodes of colic in their lifetime and only 2% require emergency surgery, the fatality rate of this syndrome is 11% in patients that do not undergo surgery and 1.4% of patients that undergo surgery. The following study presents the case of Iluminada, a 6 year old Colombian Creole mare, who arrived at the Equusan Equine Veterinary Medicine clinic urgently referred for surgical treatment, since she did not respond to medical treatment in the field. Upon physical examination the horse was found with restless, desperate attitude, mild dehydration of 7%, rapid diagnostic tests were performed glycemia, hematocrit (HTO), total plasma proteins (PPT), abdominal ultrasound where it was possible to determine the presumptive diagnosis of right dorsal displacement of major colon and not having medical treatment, The findings in surgery were displacement of the major colon, which was manually corrected. Later, continuing the exploration, an enterolith was palpated in the minor colon, which was extracted from the intestinal lumen. The patient's evolution was favorable with no post-surgical complications and excellent healing, and on day 30 she was ready to be discharged. Keywords enterolith, displacement of major colon to the right, amotil, acute abdominal syndrome, smaller colon, equine surgery.