Ablacao vertical

F.S. Valente, K.D. Reis, F.A. Soares, et al. 2011. Ablação de canal auditivo vertical em um cão. Acta Scientiae Veterinariae. 39(4): 1004.
Acta Scientiae Veterinariae, 2011. 39(4): 1004.
CASE REPORT

ISSN 1679-9216 (Online)

Pub. 1004

Ablação de canal auditivo vertical em um cão
Vertical Ear Canal Ablation in a dog
Fernanda Soldatelli Valente¹ , Kauê Danilo Helene Lemos dos Reis¹, Frederico Aécio Carvalho Soares¹, Tatiane da Silva Mottin¹ & Emerson Antonio Contesini²

RESUMO

Background: The external otitis is an inflammatory process that gets at the pinna and the external acoustic meatus of many animals; it can be a pathological process with acute, chronic or still recurrent chronic evolution. In dogs, the external otitis has high clinic importance. This condition could do stenosis or acoustic duct occlusion, inhibiting the ear’s cleanliness and the application of topical preparations as a way of medical treatment. The vertical acoustic duct’s ablation is indicated when all this are ill; however the horizontal duct keeps normal. This employment’s goal is report a case of ablation at vertical acoustic duct in a male dog, Husky Siberiano race, seven years old which showed chronic and recurrent external otitis. Case: A dog with chronic and recurrent otitis historic and some bids of medicated treatments, without success therapeutic, it was rescued at Hospital of Clínicas Veterinárias at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The owner also reported that the acoustic duct was completely closed and the canine was prostrate and aggressive. In the physical exam was observed stenosis of the right acoustic canal, where had a small orifice, approximately 2 mm, whereby purulent secretion was drained. The patient was submitted to screening’s exams like: complete CBC and skull radiography. In the presence of the historic and alterations observed in the clinical exam, it was routed to make an ablation of the vertical acoustic duct. The postoperative consisted of