Resultados clínicos do uso da haste bloqueada na redução de fraturas de 16 casos em pequenos animais

Abstract

The interlocking nail is widely known and used nowadays to stabilize humeral, femoral and tibial shaft fractures in canines and felines. This Method has shown great clinical advantages, such as the internal fixation that allows an adequate formation of bony callus, it takes the basic modern orthopedic premises in to consideration and also the early and regain of limb function. In this study, the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Uberlandia`s collection will be used in order to acquire information to elaborate a retrospective study, analyzing possible complications and recovery of animals treated with interlocking nails from 2012 to 2018. It was possible to identify through this library that 75% of the patients were male, 62.5% were less than five years old, 88% were suffering from a fracture targeting femurs and only 6.25% of the subjects didn’t show any improvement whatsoever. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that the usage of the interlocking nail to repair and reduce long bone fractures were of efficiency since this study could verify a 12 days after the procedure average period to regain limb function, a very low rate of non-improving subjects (only 6.25%) and a notorious satisfaction from the owners of those animals