First report of gasless laparoscopy for the treatment of severe ectopic dioctophymosis in a puppy
Pâmela Caye, Franciéli Mallmann Pozzobon, Bianca Bertoletti, Ariane Diniz da Silveira, Laís Formiga Silva, Josaine Cristina da Silva Rappeti, Guilherme Albuquerque de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Eduarda Aléxia Nunes Louzada Dias Cavalcanti, Maurício Veloso Brun · 2026
Read First report of gasless laparoscopy for the treatment of severe ectopic dioctophymosis in a puppy by Pâmela Caye, Franciéli Mallmann Pozzobon, Bianca Bertoletti, Ariane Diniz da Silveira, Laís Formiga Silva, Josaine Cristina da Silva Rappeti, Guilherme Albuquerque de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Eduarda Aléxia Nunes Louzada Dias Cavalcanti, Maurício Veloso Brun (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13396086.txt.
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Pâmela Caye and co-authors report the first use of gasless laparoscopy to treat a puppy with a giant kidney worm infection outside the kidney, in a 2026 case study. The parasite, Dioctophyme renale, barely responds to drugs, so surgery is the usual cure, and infection in a four-month-old is rare.
Standard keyhole surgery inflates the belly with gas, which can strain the heart and lungs of a small, sick animal. The gasless method lifts the belly wall with a frame instead, keeping pressure normal. The puppy came from a shelter hit by the May 2024 floods in southern Brazil. The report walks through the operation and recovery.
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| CREATOR | Pâmela Caye, Franciéli Mallmann Pozzobon, Bianca Bertoletti, Ariane Diniz da Silveira, Laís Formiga Silva, Josaine Cristina da Silva Rappeti, Guilherme Albuquerque de Oliveira Cavalcanti, Eduarda Aléxia Nunes Louzada Dias Cavalcanti, Maurício Veloso Brun |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16504 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |