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Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association 40:479-483 (2004)
© 2004 American Animal Hospital Association

Retrospective Study

A Simple Continuous Pattern Using Absorbable Suture for Perineal Urethrostomy in the Cat: 18 Cases (2000–2002)

Marta D. Agrodnia, DVM, Diplomate ACVS, Joe G. Hauptman, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, Bryden J. Stanley, BVMS, MVSc, Diplomate ACVS and Richard Walshaw, BVMS, Diplomate ACVS

From the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 and the Department of Companion Animals (Walshaw), Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward, Canada CIA 4P3.

Address all correspondence to Dr. Hauptman.

Closure with a simple continuous pattern using absorbable suture was evaluated in 18 cats that underwent perineal urethrostomy from 2000 to 2002. The perineal urethrostomy was performed in a similar manner in all the cats, and either 4-0 or 5-0 polydioxanone was used for closure. Cats were evaluated 2 weeks postoperatively, and long-term follow-up information was reviewed. In all cats, the perineal urethrostomy site was healed within 2 weeks. None of the cats developed a stricture postoperatively. Complications were not significantly different (P>0.50) from those found in a comparison group of 21 cats operated between 1997 and 2002, in which perineal urethrostomies were performed using nonabsorbable sutures that were removed postoperatively.






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