Obstrução esofágica e esofagotomia em estação em equino - Relado de caso

Abstract

This paper aims to report a case of esophageal obstruction and standing esophagotomy, performed in an unreported age mare, SRD, at the veterinary hospital of the Federal University of Paraíba. The patient was diagnosed through clinical and complementary exams with foreign body esophageal obstruction, after unsuccessful clinical attempts, esophagotomy was chosen, the procedure was performed in season, only sedated with detomidine and local analgesia with bupivacaine, surgery was uneventfully performed, postoperatively the patient underwent drug therapy and food management, but even so the animal died 40 days after the surgical procedure due to a cecum displacement. Therefore, esophagotomy is a procedure that can be performed in standing and should be indicated when the clinical treatment does not resolve the obstruction, despite having a prognosis of reserved to unfavorable, due to postoperative complications inherent to the esophageal region.