Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Systemic injuries and survival in dogs with eye trauma
By Whinery, Nicole et al.·Published in Frontiers in veterinary science·2023·Emergency and Critical Care Department, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Incidence of concurrent systemic injuries with traumatic proptosis and its effect on outcome - 100 dogs.
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Plain-English summary
A group of 100 dogs with traumatic eye injuries, known as proptosis, were evaluated to see if they had other injuries and how that affected their recovery. About 17% of these dogs had additional systemic injuries, which were linked to lower body temperatures and higher blood sugar levels. However, having these extra injuries did not seem to impact whether the dogs survived to go home. Most dogs were able to recover despite the presence of other injuries.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the incidence of concurrent systemic injuries in dogs with traumatic ocular proptosis and their effect on survival to discharge. Additionally, to evaluate for associations between the type of trauma, each presenting vital signs, minimum laboratory database findings including packed cell volume, total solids, plasma glucose and lactate concentrations, and the diagnosis of concurrent systemic injury and survival. DESIGN: Retrospective study between the years 2017 and 2022. SETTING: One university teaching hospital and one large, private practice. ANIMALS: One hundred dogs presenting to the hospital with a diagnosis of traumatic ocular proptosis. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Medical records were retrospectively reviewed; signalment, breed, sex, age, weight, date of presentation, type of trauma sustained, time from trauma to presentation, vitals on presentation, and minimum laboratory database findings including packed cell volume (PCV), total solids (TS), plasma glucose concentration, and plasma lactate concentration were recorded. A modified animal trauma triage (ATT) score was retrospectively calculated. A total of 17 dogs (17%) had concurrent systemic injury. Compared to dogs without systemic injuries, dogs with systemic injuries had a significantly lower body temperature [median 101.1F (38.3) vs. 101.6F (38.6);= 0.008], significantly higher plasma glucose concentrations (125 mg/dL, 6.9 mmol/L vs. 112 mg/dL, 6.2 mmol/L;= 0.012) and approaching statistical significance, lower PCV values (median 40 vs. 46%;= 0.051). CONCLUSIONS: Dogs presenting with traumatic ocular proptosis do present with concurrent systemic, non-ocular injuries; however, these concurrent injuries do not seem to be associated with survival to discharge.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38292129/