Estudo retrospectivo das afecções cirúrgicas em aves silvestres atendidas no Hospital Veterinário da Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE e recobrimento de implante ortopédico em jabuti-piranga (Chelonoidis carbonaria)

Abstract

The clinical and surgical routine wildlife is increasingly present in the daily life of the veterinary medical care. Be patient feathered, scaly or by the professionals in this area have to be familiar with the particularities of each individual to provide a quality service center. The objective was to conduct a retrospective survey of wild birds taking into account the surgical conditions and more often met species in a veterinary hospital and report cases of fracture reptiles attended the same service. To perform the compilation of survey data were analyzed wild bird records attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco – UFRPE from December 2014 to December 2015 to obtain the relevant information for this study. It was taken into account the order of birds met and surgical pathologies (orthopedic and soft tissue origin) most frequently diagnosed in the service. In the case of reptiles, aimed to report cases of shell fractures in Jabuti-Piranga (Chelonoidis carbonaria) attending the same service that was used epoxy resin and polymethylmethacrylate as an adjuvant in osteosynthesis method of deferring the application form of the resin. In one patient the lesion coverage was full and the other, partial coverage. After analyzing data from wild birds met in service, it could be seen a total of 63 birds, in which 58.73% had orthopedic conditions while 19.04% had surgical diseases in soft tissues and 22.22% were calls clinicians. Orders presented in this work the most frequent were Accipitriformes with 26.98% and 22.22% with Stringiformes. The total number of surgeries was 26, 12 orthopedic (46.15%) and 14 soft tissue (53.85%). Were identified ten different types of orthopedic pathologies and two different types of diseases in soft tissues. Of all orthopedic conditions, fractures members accounted for 83.33% of the diseases of bone origin and the bones of the most affected wings (68.57%). Of soft tissue pathologies diagnosed the wounds arising from trauma and self-harm accounted for 85.71%, while cancer accounted for 14.28%. The turtles undergo osteosynthesis shell, the patient had a lesion partially covered by the resin was observed inflammatory exudate drainage and, in radiographic follow-ups, it was possible the visualization of the lines of fractures. In the patient with full coverage was no accumulation of pus in the focus of injury at the time of the resin takes four months after surgery. Already in osteosynthesis control of radiographic images it was not possible to identify the fracture lines by radiopacity of resin used making image overlay. After analyzing the data, it is concluded that among the orders of the most attended wild birds Accipitriformes and Stringiformes had a higher incidence and that most diseases were of orthopedic origin having almost entirely composed of fractures in members. Regarding the use of the resins in the fixation process, it is concluded that the partial coverage of the lesion by the resin allowed to drain inflammatory exudate and use of polymethylmethacrylate resin had advantages such as low radiopacity allowing visualization of the lines of fractures in control X-ray of the fracture in Jabuti-Piranga submitted to shell fracture repair.