Hepatite Crônica e Cirrose em um Canino.

Abstract

The Supervised Traineeship on Veterinary Medicine aims to describe the activities developed at the University Veterinary Hospital of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, in internal medicine field of small animal. The traineeship began on June 1, 2015 and ending on August 28, 2015, totaling 345 hours. The work carried out involved screening, clinical and physical examination and monitoring of the hospital series, as well as assist in collecting material and complementary examinations. It also held the assistance to hospitalized animals through shifts. The Supervised Traineeship has enabled new learning, complementation and practice knowledge acquired during the academic period. In addition to the activities discussed during the probationary period it will be also reported a case involving a liver disease. Liver cirrhosis in dogs also called "end-stage liver" is a lesion pattern which indicates a liver degenerative process in the irreversible phase. When this injury is observed histologically it is no longer possible to know what the cause or causes (primary). However, the two conditions most commonly associated with cirrhosis are chronic aflatoxicosis and lobular dissecting hepatitis. Although this pathology itself is considered somewhat trivial, in the case which will be discussed it occurs in a young animal of just 1 year old, which is unusual.