Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care – Most Recent

Abstract

Objective

To describe the perioperative changes in blood pancreatic lipase activity and explore the contributing clinical factors associated with these changes.

Design

Prospective observational study.

Setting

University teaching hospital.

Animals

One hundred and four dogs underwent various surgical procedures under general anesthesia.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and Main Results

Blood pancreatic lipase activities, which were measured using FUJI DRI-CHEM v-Lip-P (FDC-v-Lip), significantly increased postoperatively compared to preoperative measurements (premedian 58.5 U/L [range, 23–157] vs. postmedian 80 U/L [range, 22–1000], P < 0.0001). The patient with a postoperative increase in FDC-v-Lip over the normal range (35 dogs [33.6%]) had significantly higher preoperative FDC-v-Lip values.

Conclusions

In this study, dogs had significantly increased pancreas-specific lipase activities after surgical procedures under general anesthesia. Direct contributors to the increase and its relevance to clinical and histological pancreatitis should be determined in the future.

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