Bilateral patellar ligament rupture in a dog during enrofloxacin treatment. Treatment.

Patellar ligament rupture is described in most orthopaedic textbooks. The c ase report of a large dog with bilateral rapture is presented. As the initi al incident was minor, responsability was attributed to an enrofloxacin tre atment associated with previous prostatic surgery. Such rupture of a tendon is classic in man, where fluoroquinolones tendinopathies are well known, b ut has not yet been described in dog. As conventional surgical failed a new surgical technic was attempted. Each tendinous suture was protected by a c lassic tibio-patellar cerclage wire plus a transarticular external fixator of the stifle. The fixator was removed one and a half month later, after ul trasound examination of the ligament. Joint immobilisation was considered r esponsible for DJD of the stifles detected one year post trauma.