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1
Q

You are presented with an adult dairy cow heavily pregnant with an LDA. If you are equally comfortable with all surgeries to correct the displacement this is the best approach:

  • Toggle
  • Right paramedian
  • Left flank abomasopexy
  • Right flank omentopexy
A

Left flank abomasopexy

2
Q

What is the most common reason for a right flank celiotomy in dairy cattle?

A

LDA

In beef cattle the most common indication for a R flank celiotomy is C-section

3
Q

The most common life threatening complication following surgical correction of an abomasal volvulus in a cow using a right flank approach is:

A

abomasal atony

4
Q

For treatment of abomasal displacement in a cow during gestation, what is the procedure of choice?

A

left paralumbar abomasopexy or omentopexy

right flank is occupied by gravis uterus

5
Q

What is the preferred location for a right paramedian abomasopexy?

A

20 cm caudal to xiphoid process and 5-10 cm to the right of ventral midline

6
Q

T/F: Only a small percentage of cows will redevelop an LDA following rolling and medical treatment

A

False

75% of cows will redevelop an LDA following rolling and medical treatment​

7
Q

When rolling a cow with LDA, you must start with the cow on its ________ side

A

right

8
Q

A dairy cow has a heart rate of 100 beats/minute, has been off feed for 36 hours and is only passing mucus. During palpation, a viscus 10cm in diameter is palpated on the right side at the brim of the pelvic inlet, laboratory findings from a venous blood/gas showed a pH of 7.43. During auscultation and percussion a ping is found and showed on this animal. The ping is covering the right paralumbar fossa and rib 13 to 11. What is the most likely diagnosis?

  • Cecal impaction
  • Abomasal volvulus
  • Intussusception of the small intestine
  • Cecal dilation
  • Cecal volvulus
A

Cecal volvulus

Would recommend right flank celiotomy and typhlotomy

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