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What are the indications for a thoracoscopy?

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  • Exploration (ie. underlying disease for pleural effusion), biopsy
  • Foreign body removal
  • Pericardial window / subtotal pericardectomy
  • Lung lobectomy
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What are the indications for a laparoscopy?

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  • Exploration (ie. underlying disease for abdominal effusion), biopsy
  • Foreign body removal (mostly in GI)
  • Gastropexy
  • Pyometra
  • Spaying
  • Adrenalectomy
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What are the indications for a tracheoscopy/bronchoscopy?

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  • Exploration
  • Foreign body removal
  • BAL
  • Tracheal wash
  • Tracheal stenting
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What are the indications for a esophagoscopy/gastroscopy/duodenoscopy?

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  • Exploration, biopsy
  • Foreign body removal
  • Percutaneous endoscopic gastrotomy tube placement
  • Gastropexy
  • ALICAM placement in duodenum
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What are the indications for a cystourethroscopy?

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  • Exploration (ie. malignant VS benign urethral obstruction)
  • Visualization during laser lithotripsy
  • Biospy
  • Urethral and vesical FB/calculi
  • Ectopic ureter
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Name some procedures that can be performed under fluoroscopy?

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  • Urethral catheterization (with a guide wire)
  • Urethral stenting
  • Percutaneous ureteral stenting
  • Subcutaneous ureteral bypass
  • Tracheal stenting
  • Intravascular foreign body removal
  • Cardiac intervention (ie ballooning, PDA)
  • Feeding tube placement
  • PDA
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What should be taken into consideration when placing a urethral stent in male cats?

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It has to be placed from an anterograde approach due to the small size of the urethral orifice unless a previous peritoneal urethrostomy has been performed

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What are the complications associated with a ureteral stent?

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Injury to the ureter during stent placement, urine leakage, infection, stent migration,
encrustation and reobstruction, hematuria, and stranguria

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What are the complications associated with a tracheal stent?

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Stent fracture, excessive granulation tissue formation, tracheitis, pneumonia, incorrect deployment, persistent cough

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