Surgical Procedures and Postoperative Complications in Animals

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".

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Dear Colleagues,

Surgery has made enormous progress in recent years, with increasingly more procedures displaying the benefits of using our novel and established techniques. However, we have little knowledge regarding the procedures and complications associated with individual operations.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect papers that delve into the details of surgical procedures and complications related to each operation.

In this way, it will be possible to discover a new perspective in relation to procedures, demonstrating the benefits—with regards to reduced complications—or the real-world problems encountered in the medical/surgical management of specific cases.

For this reason, this Special Issue will be a perfect handbook for surgeons who will want to learn about the benefits and risks of a surgical technique, improving their knowledge and increasing their awareness in case management.

Dr. Federico Massari
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Keywords

  • complication
  • surgical procedure
  • postoperative
  • outcome
  • recovery

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Surgical Assessment and Post-Operative Complications Following Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) of Horses with Severe Equine Pasture Asthma During Asthma Exacerbation and Remission
by Caitlin J. Wenzel, Cathleen A. Mochal-King, Alison L. Eddy, Jacquelyn E. Bowser, Robert W. Wills, W. Isaac Jumper, Andrew Claude and Cyprianna E. Swiderski
Animals 2025, 15(15), 2276; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani15152276 - 4 Aug 2025
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The aim of this retrospective clinical study was to assess surgical duration and surgical and post-operative complications associated with Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) and lung biopsy in horses with severe Equine Pasture Asthma (EPA) and paired control horses. Twelve horses (6 EPA-affected, 6 [...] Read more.
The aim of this retrospective clinical study was to assess surgical duration and surgical and post-operative complications associated with Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) and lung biopsy in horses with severe Equine Pasture Asthma (EPA) and paired control horses. Twelve horses (6 EPA-affected, 6 control) were sex, age and breed matched. Twenty-four thoracic surgeries were performed. Surgery of each matched pair (EPA-affected and healthy) was performed during asthma exacerbation (summer) and remission (winter). Surgical times were shorter with uncomplicated thoracoscopy (85 min) and significantly longer (p < 0.001) when intra-operative complications necessitated conversion to thoracotomy (156 min). The overall surgical time of EPA-affected horses during asthma exacerbation was significantly longer than control horses at any time point, predicted mean difference of 78 min (p < 0.05). When comparing EPA-affected horses to themselves during asthma exacerbation and remission, surgical times were significantly longer (p < 0.01) with a predicted mean difference of 98 min; this effect of seasonality did not occur amongst control horses. Intra-operative surgical complications (6/24) were evenly divided between EPA and control horses, however, only severe EPA horses in exacerbation were noted to have lung hyperinflation. Post-operative complications: fever, colic, hemothorax, pneumothorax, subcutaneous emphysema, surgical site infection, and/or laminitis occurred in 13/24 surgical procedures (54%). No fatalities resulted from these procedures. Full article
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