Retrieval of ureteral calculus using a new method of endoscopic assistance in a cat.
A 9-year-old female spayed domestic short-haired cat presented with ureteral obstruction due to a ureteral calculus 4 cm distal to the renal pelvis. Preoperative creatinine was 844 mmol/L. A novel approach to this condition was utilised whereby a flexible endoscope was passed through a hole made in the renal capsule into the renal pelvis and ureter. The calculus was visualised, and the endoscope was removed. A 1.4 mm flexible grasping forceps was introduced into the proximal ureter through the same hole in the renal capsule and the calculus was removed. The creatinine dropped to 282 micromol/L within 2 weeks of surgery. The cat died of apparently unrelated causes several months after surgery.
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The Southern Animal Referral Centre, 248 Wickham Road, Highett, Victoria 3190.
D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D002415:Cats; D019723:Endoscopes / Q000662:veterinary; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary*