Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Larval and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for dog wound healing
By Rainer da Silva Reinstein et al.·Published in Parasitology international·2021·View original on Semantic Scholar →
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Original publication title: A positive association of larval therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in veterinary wound care.
- Species:
- dog
Plain-English summary
A 2-year-old female mixed breed dog was brought in with severe injuries to her front legs after being hit by a car. She had multiple wounds, including a serious skin injury and a fracture in one leg. The vet used a combination of larval therapy, which helps clean wounds, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), which improves healing by increasing oxygen in the tissues. Although one leg had to be amputated due to ongoing pain and complications, the treatments helped the remaining tissue heal well. The dog showed good recovery overall thanks to this combined approach.
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Abstract
The treatment of cutaneous wounds is part of the veterinary routine from initial scientific reports due to being regularly present condition. Currently, several types of treatments are available to accelerate the healing process. This report presents the case of a dog with multiple lesions in the thoracic limbs resulting from a car accident, who underwent larval therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). The animal was a 2-year-old female mixed breed dog presenting severe skin degloving, fracture in the left thoracic limb (LTL), with abrasion lesions and dislocation in the right thoracic limb (RTL). The animal underwent multiple modality therapies, such as HBOT sessions associated with larval therapy; even after the LTL presented gangrene, this treatment resulted in optimal viability of the non-necrotic tissue adjacent to the gangrene. Due to chronic pain unresponsive to drug control and the presence of a fracture at a location where a possible exoprosthesis was supposed to be fixed, the LTL ended up being amputated. There are several reports of the use of HBOT or larval therapy in traumatized limbs; however, the combination of both therapies has not been previously described in the veterinary literature. Thus, we demonstrate through this report that it was possible to quickly recover the animal with good wound resolution through tissue oxygenation and a healthy granulation bed, both provided by the therapeutic combination.
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Search related cases →Original publication on Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/34800725