GASTRIC DILATATION-VOLVULUS: LACTATE CLEARANCE AND PROGNOSIS

摘要

Lactate clearance in response to pre-surgical treatment in dogs with GDV is correlated with prognosis and helps identify patients that require more aggressive therapyGastric dilatation-volvulus is an acute life-threatening condition that primarily affects large-breed dogs. By definition, the initiating event of the syndrome involves an abnormal entrapment and accumulation of fluid and air within the gastric lumen that results in extreme, traumatic distention of the stomach (dilatation) and variable rotation of the stomach on its long axis (volvulus). Early clinical signs (discomfort, pacing, panting, drooling, retching, and abdominal distention) are indicative of the initial events.