Dysplasia

Our seven labrador started before the time limp on the right front leg. The vet can investigate and zrentgenoval and found that the boy is suffering from elbow dysplasia is a piece of loose cartilage in the joints ramenim. Recommended surgery, but apparently there are two more treatments and dog will be a long limp. It also argues that the problem in Loket not solve operations. I heard about the possibility of endoscopic operations in joints, which leads to better results. What is your opinion on this method?

Your veterinarian is right. Both the problems suffered by your dog, you can address operations, but the results of surgery for many reasons unsatisfactory. First, we briefly introduce the method of endoscopic joint operation, called arthroscopy. Artoskopie are now in human medicine to completely normal method, which resolves a number of orthopedic problems. I Veterinary Orthopedics Today artroskopicke operations joints represent the gold standard, especially in Western Europe and North America. We recently this technology was not available for the treatment of small animals in general.

Only in recent years are beginning to some reference work focusing on minimally invasive operations. Artroskopicka tests represent the minimum interference with the body of the patient.Thin endoscopic optics are well-defined points are introduced into the joint small incision, thus not in a significant impediment to the integrity of muscle or joint cases. Using the endoscope introduced into the joint can be incomparably better and more accurately examine the whole joint and assess the state of cartilage, vase, tendon and joint cases. This is particularly true for the shoulder joint, which in its entirety conventional surgical methods can be investigated at all and also for the elbow joint, where the pathological lesions are often so small that even without a large increase is not visible.

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