Vincek et al VRU 2025-
Using 18 F- Sodium Fluoride and a PET scan:
What % of implants had increased radiopharmaceutical uptake (IRU)?
What % did not?
What had the highest uptake?
What was the main take away?
- 38% had IRU
- 62% had no IRU
- Sepsis confirmed in a THR
- Majority of implants don’t uptake the iosotope and when there is uptake it is associated with septic implants and marked degenerative joint pathology
Trefny et al VCOT 2025
What significantly impacted construct stiffness on the compression surface?
What significantly impacted construct stiffness on the tension surface?
- Short working length had a higher construct stiffness and lower plate strain
- Transcortical contact
Lai et al VCOT 2024 - Comparing DePuy Synthes, Knight Benedikt and Vet instruments locking compression plates:
Which had the most initial stiffness?
How did the constructs fail?
- No sig diff in stiffness but DPS were stiffer than Vi
- all failed by screw damage at the shaft between the plate and bone
Deveci et al VetSurg 2024- Using a 3D custom guide have a benefit over free hand pin placement for capital physeal fractures?
Freehand placement was associated with a greater number of flurorscopic images, longer procedure time, wire placement was less accurate
Welsh et al Vet Surg 2025
What biomechanical differences were identified between unilateral and orthogonally plated fractures with fracture gaps?
Orthogonal plating was stronger and stiffer than unilateral plating under both dynamic and static axial compression; this increased with increased implant size
Castejon Gonzalez et al JFMS 2025
What was the most frequent location of mandibular fracture?
What was the mean healing time?
What complications were associated with wire-reinforced interdental bis-acryl composite splints?
- Between canine tooth and third pre-molar tooth
- Mean of 49.8 +/- 18.9 days
- Periodontal disease and inflammatory tooth resorption
Bae et al VetSurg 2024- In dogs with SI luxations did direction of screw threads impact rotational resistance?
Right-handed screws provide greater rotational resistance in right-sided luxation (same on the left)
Alves et al JAVMA 2024- For hip OA:
Which combination of medications with mesotherapy saw the greatest improvement?
Which combination had the longest period of results?
- Lidocaine, piroxicam, and thiocolchicoside +/- photobiomodulation session compared to lidocaine, piroxicam, and traumeel OR lidocaine, piroxicam and glucosamine
- Same combination
Bird et al VCOT 2021Between 2.0 mm notched head T-plates and straight locking plates:
Which was stiffer?
Which had greater strain during compression bending and torsion?
- straight locking plate
- Notched head T-plate
Billas et al VetSurg 2021- After canine limb amputation:
Incidence of SSI?
SSI rate with clean procedures?
What factors increased with odds of SSI?
- 12.5%
- 10.9%
- Use of bipolar vessel sealing device, non-clean classification, amputation due to infection or trauma
Marconato et al JAVMA 2021- Looking at timing of PO chemo for amputated OSA:
What was associated with a decreased median time to tumor progression?
What was associated with a decreased MST?
- Chemo >5 days
- Chemo > 5 days
Camilletti and D’Amato JSAP 2024- treating oligotrophic and atrophic non-unions with circular ESF and autologous corticocancellous bone graft:
What osseous union rate?
Complication rate?
- 94.7%
- 26%
Castilla et al VCOT 2023- In nonunions tx with fixation, compression-resistant matrix and recombinant human bone morphogenic protein-2:
What was the bone density?
What % of fractures healed?
- Higher density at the periphery and lower density in the center
- 100%
Chiu et al VetSurg 2021- Comparing 3 loop pulley to exposed double-cross-lock, embedded double-cross-lock, triple-circle-lock, and Modified-Tang which had improved resistance to loads and gap formation?
All techniques were biomechanically superior to 3 loop pulley
Cunningham et al JFMS 2022- Comparing placebo to Dasuquin for cats with DJD which group had the most significant improvement in pain scores, QoL and activity level?
No difference- strong placebo effect
Curcillo et al VCOT 2021- In tendon laceration repair what was the main finding?
Did the mode of failure change?
- Yield, peak, and failure force increased when # of strands increased (2-> 4-> 6)
- No
Duffy et al VetSurg 2020- For tendinography comparing partial vs complete circumferential epitendinous sutures:
Which construct was the strongest?
Mode of failure?
- Yield, peak, and failure load differed depending on location of partial circumferential
- Complete failed by suture pull-through; partial failed by suture breakage
Duffy et al VetSurg 2021- For tendinography comparing barbed suture and 3 loop pulley:
Which constructs had the greatest yield, peak, and failure loads?
What was the mode of failure for each?
- No difference between barbed sutures and 3 loop pulley, but augmentation of both with epitendinous sutures had the greatest biomechanical impact
- suture pull-through without augmentation; tissue failure distant to repair site with epitendinous suture augmentation
Yeh et al JAVMA 2022- Free-form ESF in cats:
Success rate?
Time to fixator removal?
Complication rate?
Pin tract discharge rate?
Poor bone healing rate?
- 93%
- 8 weeks
- 26%
- 4.3%
- 10.9%
Eby et al VetSurg 2020- Use of barbed epitendinous sutures with core locking-loop sutures for flexor tendon repairs:
Which group had the greatest yield load?
Did the failure mechanism differ between the patterns?
- with smooth epitendinous sutures and with stratafix sutures (not V-Loc or quill)
- no
Evans et al VCOT 2023- Effect of plate-bone distance and working length on locking construct; what was the main finding?
Longer working length, regardless of bone-plate distance, had a lower stiffness in compression bending though in torsion more of an effect on plate-bone distance was noted
Filho et al VCOT 2023- Gait analysis in tripods:
With TL amp what % of body weight is placed on the remaining TL?
With a PL amp what % of body weight is placed on remaining PL?
- 50.7%
- 27.9%
Gaskin et al JFMS 2023- Flexor tenectomy as a salvage sx following feline onychectomy:
What was the inclusion criteria?
What was the main outcome after the surgery>?
- cats who had oncychectomy, had inappropriate elimination or biting and had behaviour improve on buprenorphine trial
- All 42 walked more comfortably
Hoon- Screw Hole defect size in feline femurs: What was the main finding?
Screw-hole defects up to 2.7 mm did not significantly reduce bone failure properties
