POST-ANESTHETIC ESOPHAGEAL STRICTURE FORMATION IN 3 CATS

Three cases of distal oesophageal stricture which developed after ovar iohysterectomy, carried out under atropine-xylazine-ketamine anaesthes ia in the cat are reviewed. Diagnosis was based upon medical history, clinical signs and contrast radiography and confirmed by endoscopy. Di latation was successfully attempted in one case by advancing the endos cope through the stricture. The multifactorial pathogenesis of the con dition and the diagnostic and therapeutic methods applied are discusse d.