Total colectomy in feline of 22 years affected by megacolon: Case report

Authors

  • Átilla Holanda de Albuquerque Albuquerque
  • Ingrid Rabelo Rodrigues Graduanda em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Campus Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil
  • Hermógenes Josniel Rocha Macedo Graduando em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Campus Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil
  • Glenda Camille Barboza Graduanda em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Campus Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil
  • Bruna Freire de Albuquerque Graduanda em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Campus Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil
  • Aline Silveira Feitosa Graduanda em Medicina Veterinária pela Faculdade Terra Nordeste, Campus Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil
  • Victor Manuel de Lacerda Freitas Graduando em Medicina Veterinária pela Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Campus Itaperi, Ceará, Brasil
  • Richard Elâino de Oliveira Ferraz Médico Veterinário, Prof. - Faculdade Terra Nordeste (FATENE), Hospital Veterinário Metropolitano, setor de clínica médica, Caucaia, Ceará, Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22256/PUBVET.V11N10.986-990

Keywords:

colon surgery, compaction, cat, geriatrics

Abstract

The megacolon is an expansion in light in the colon, with dysfunction of the smooth muscles, leading to the retention of feces. This can be caused by physical traumas, metabolic disorders, neurological, behavioral, by endocrinopathies or being idiopathic. When idiopathic it affects animals in average of 5 years of age; that will present display, aquesia, tenesmus, anorexia, vomit, slimming and apathy. The definitive diagnosis is made with abdominal radiography. Treatment may be conservative or surgical, this through colectomy total or partial colectomy. The present work reports the case of a male, feline, castrated 22 year, with a history of recurrent constipation and idiopathic megacolon. This was performed surgically with total colectomy technique, which presented good results as a treatment.

Published

2017-08-15

Issue

Section

Medicina veterinária

How to Cite

Total colectomy in feline of 22 years affected by megacolon: Case report. (2017). Pubvet, 11(10). https://doi.org/10.22256/PUBVET.V11N10.986-990

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