| Lee Lu is an extremely cute Welch Corgi who was diagnosed at 10 weeks of age with mega esophagus, most likely due to a persistent right aortic arch. The right aortic arch is a developmental anomaly and causes a stricture around the esophagus so food can't pass by and the esophagus enlarges in front of the heart (blurry x-rays below show the large barium filled esophagus). Uncorrected dogs will aspirate and get pneumonia, and they never really grow if they survive pneumonia because they just can't take in enough food. |
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The bright white material is the pool of barium just in front of the band of tissue. |
| We wanted her to go to A&M but the cost and the time it would take were prohibitive. We couldn't let LeeLu die without trying to give her a chance so…we were going in! We went into the chest, found the band of tissue causing the stricture, ligated and cut it and closed her up. Two weeks later she had gained 2 pounds. Two more weeks and she has normal x-rays (seen below) and is going full speed ahead! |
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When this x-ray is compared to the one taken before surgery the difference is amazing!! |
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