Abstract:
Minimally invasive surgery is constantly improving and breaking grounds due to its benefits such as, fast recovery and
less pain. But these procedures need a lot of effort from the surgeon, more than an opened technique, since the focus
becomes a monitor and not a directly visible organ.
In cats two procedures can be performed for spaying, ovariectomy and ovariohisterectomy. The first one can be
performed using a two port laparoscopy technique.
This study describes the surgical approach for a laparoscopic two port ovariectomy and emphasizes on the time needed
for the procedure, taking into study 8 young healthy short hair cats and a veterinary surgeon with limited experience in
laparoscopy, but with some little experience in using the laparoscopic instrumentation.
None of the surgeries needed conversion. In one case we observed a wound dehiscence, that healed by secondary
healing. The surgeon’s time of surgery improved as the number of cases increased.
