Veterinary Archives, Vol. 88 No. 3, 2018.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.24099/vet.arhiv.170330a
Repair of recurrent peritoneopericardial hernia in a dog, using polypropylene mesh and an autologous pericardial flap.
Ozren Smolec
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Dražen Vnuk
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Nika Brkljača Bottegaro
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Bojan Toholj
; Department for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Republic Serbia
Marko Pećin
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Andrija Musulin
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Nikica Daraboš
; Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Josip Kos
; Clinic for Surgery, Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Peritoneopericardial hernia is a malformation which allows the protrusion of abdominal organs into the pericardial sac. Several methods of herniorrhaphy had been described in human and veterinary medicine, such as the usage of prosthetic patches, allografts and autologous grafts. The purpose of this study was to describe a new technique of herniorrhaphy, which combines two different materials for defect closure (nonautologous-polypropylene mesh and autologous-pericardial flap) in a case of recurrent peritoneopericardial hernia in a dog. A two-year-old, intact female Rhodesian Ridgeback was presented with an eight week history of respiratory problems, occasional coughing, vomiting, lethargy, body mass loss and icteric mucous membrane. The reason for using this technique was tension at hernial ring, which could have caused recurrence of the peritoneopericardial hernia. Polypropylene mesh was used in order to reinforce the herniorrhaphy and an autologous flap served as a barrier against mesh exposure to the epicardial surface. In our opinion, this method is safe with no complications observed, so therefore, it could be a suitable method for peritoneopericardial reherniation repair.
Keywords
dog; mesh; peritoneopericardial hernia; pericardial flap; repair
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202692
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Publication date:
4.6.2018.
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