VSR 421: Regional Veterinary Surgery (2+1)

RECTAL TEARS

• Primarily due to trauma
• Rarely reported in ruminants

Classification

• Grade 1: tears – involves mucosa or mucosa and submucosa
• Grade 2: When only muscular layer gets ruptured
• Grade 3: Involves mucosa, sub mucosa and muscular layer
• Grade 4: Penetrates all layers and enters peritoneal cavity

Diagnosis

• Presence of excessive amounts of blood on glove on rectal palpation
• Easily palpable viscera
• Signs of shock and peritonitis

Treatment

• under epidural anaesthesia the distal rectal tear is corrected using an absorbable suture material using inversion pattern.
• In case of proximal rectal tears – right flank laparotomy has t be performed to repair the rectal tears