THE OCCURRENCE OF COMPLICATIONS DURING MY ELOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF DOGS

The occurrence of spinal disease in dogs is quite frequent. Clinical e xamination and survey radiography do not allow to make an exact diagno sis in many cases. Therefore the radiographic method - myelograhy is u sed to make an exact diagnosis and to locate the pathological process in the spinal cord. Myelography can be accompanied by some complicatio ns caused by a contrast medium or anaesthesia. In this study, the occu rrence of complications was evaluated when the contrast medium Dimer X and three types of general anaesthesia were used: xylazine-ketamine, chlorpromazine-piritramide, chlorpromazine-pentobarbital. Certain rela tions between the origin of complications, dog weight and total time o f anaesthesia are indicated. The results obtained show that the highes t number of cases with complicated regeneration was observed after the use of the combination xylazine-ketamine when the average duration of anesthesia was 31.1 minutes comparing to the combination chlorpromazi ne-pentobarbitale with average duration of anaesthesia was 127.7 minut es with the lowest number of complications. We also refer to certain r elations between weight and the occurrence of complications where the highest correlation (r = 0.59) was recorded for xylazine-ketamine anae sthesia. The correlation coefficient (r = 0.27) for chlorpromazine-pen tobarbital documents very low correlations of the followed values.