Congenital portosystemic shunt in dogs: review

Authors

  • Jéssica Camargo Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Bruna Santos dos Santos UFRGS
  • Moisés Westenhofen autonomo
  • Julia Birnie Farias UNIPAMPA
  • Bibiana Lopes UFSM
  • Alexandre Mazzanti UFSM
  • Emerson Antonio Contesini UFRGS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31533/pubvet.v13n8a396.1-6

Keywords:

ameroid constrictor, hepatic encephalopathy, portosystemic shunt, vascular anomaly

Abstract

Portosystemic shunt is a condition commonly seen in dogs. This disease is a vascular anomaly that makes communication between the systemic circulation and the portal circulation. Because of this anomalous vascular communication, portal blood from the drainage of organs such as the stomach, intestine, pancreas and spleen, passes directly into the systemic circulation, diverting from the liver that is responsible for detoxification of various substances. Therefore, the patient will manifest numerous clinical signs with possible neurological or systemic involvement only due to the accumulation of toxins in the blood. The treatment of choice for the portosystemic shunt is the ligation of the anomalous vessel, to which the ameroid constricting ring will be the most approached in this article.

Published

2019-09-23

Issue

Section

Medicina veterinária

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