Open Intestinal Anastomosis with Surgical Stapling Equipment in 24 Dogs and Cats
1991
Surgical stapling equipment was used to perform open antiperistaltic side-to-side (“functional end-to-end”) entero-anastomoses in 20 dogs and 4 cats. Twenty-one anastomoses healed uneventfully. Seven animals with severe bacterial peritonitis required open peritoneal drainage and delayed abdominal closure. There was postoperative leakage at the anastomotic site in two dogs and a localized abscess at the staple line in one cat. No long-term complications occurred in follow-up periods of 3 to 29 months.
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