Analysis Of 58 Cases Of Canine Urinary Stone Disease And The Diagnosis And Treatment Methods

Canine urolithiasis is a urinary system disease which causes urinary tract mucosal bleeding, inflammation and obstruction. The disease is initiated by the crystallization of inorganic salt in the urinary tract, and stimulation of the urinary tract mucosa. In recent years, with the improvement of people’s living standards, pet feeding is more and more popular in China, and the proportion of the dog’s feeding is large, so many canine diseases happened occasionally. Canine urolithiasis is common, and some cases may lead to death. The disease occurs mainly in the bladder, urethra, renal pelvis and ureter. The occurrence of canine urolithiasis is usually related to dog’s age, genda, breed, and other certain reasons. Canine urolithiasis can be diagnosed by clinical examination and imaging examination, and usually conservative medication treatment can be chose according to the incidence, or surgical treatment to ease the pain of the patients.In this paper, we had collected and catalogued 58 cases of canine urolithiasis in Taiyuan Boai pet hospital and Taiyuan Huixin pet hospital from May 2010 to May 2014. By analyzing these cases, we found that the majority of clinical symptoms of the disease is abdominal pain(28 cases), frequent micturition(30 cases), bladder calculi(25 cases), urethral calculi(18 cases) and renal calculi(10 cases), occurred commonly in Pekingese(14 cases), poodle(12 cases) and the Pomeranian(6 cases) in 5-9 years old(n=39), and also connected with the season and diet.In these 58 cases, common clinical symptoms include frequent urination, urine dripping wet, dysuria and bloody urine, which were suspected as canine urolithiasis. Urethral palpation can inspect the hard calculus, X-ray images reveal high density image and B ultrasonic examination show strong echo, the size of the stone and pathogenic site, which can be diagnosed as urinary stone disease. 21 cases were confirmed by urethral palpation, 49 cases by X-rays, and 9 cases by B ultrasonic examination. In the treatment of these cases, 30 cases were treated through conservative treatment, which changed acidification or alkalinity of urine, combined with anti-inflammatory, injected diuretic to speed up the stones dissolve and discharge for the smaller stone cases. 16 cases were cured, but not recovered well. And 11 cases were treated by surgical therapy. In the 39 cases of surgical treatment, 18 cases were cured, and 6 cases recurrence.