Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog with right atrial tumor treated by heart surgery and graft
By Verbeke, Fei et al.·Published in The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne·2012·Department of Small Animal Medicine and Clinical Biology·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Total venous inflow occlusion and pericardial auto-graft reconstruction for right atrial hemangiosarcoma resection in a dog.
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Plain-English summary
A 6-year-old Bordeaux dog was diagnosed with a large tumor in the heart called hemangiosarcoma. The veterinarian performed surgery to remove the tumor using a technique that temporarily blocked blood flow to the heart. After the surgery, the dog recovered well and was free of the disease for 7 months. Unfortunately, the dog was later euthanized due to the spread of the cancer to other parts of the body, but there was no sign of the tumor returning to the heart.
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Abstract
A sizeable right atrial hemangiosarcoma in a 6-year-old Bordeaux dog, World Health Organization (WHO) stage 2, was excised using total venous inflow occlusion. The defect was restored with a non-vascularized pericardial auto-graft. The dog had a disease-free interval of 7 mo. The dog was euthanized 9 months later, at which time there were distant metastases but no indication of local recurrence.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23543933/