Medical-Nutritional Management of Acute Pancreatitis in Dogs: Cases Report

Abstract

The pancreas acute inflammation in dogs provoke non-specific clinical signs that include emesis, abdominal pain and there is a relation with risk factors as feed intake with high levels of lipids, obesity and older age. It may conduct many patients to death due to the advance of lesions in the organ and structures around and hydro-electrolytic disorders, hepatic involvement caused by straight injury and renal consequences, through the establishment of severe azotemia. This present paper aimed to report the difficulties in diagnosing this disease and the importance of the quick therapeutic establishment, when it reports two cases assisted at the Veterinary Hospital of UNESP/Jaboticabal, in one elderly patient and other young dog that presented acute manifestation of the disease and recovered in a satisfactory manner.