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Posted by mickey4paws on October 05, 2002 at 12:17:23:

The multiple amputations of the distal phalanges carries the potential of major
complications. Here is an excerpt from an article written in the JAVMA
(Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association) in August 1998
entitled "Comparison of effects of elective tenectomy or onychectomy in
cats":

Under Clinical Implications, the authors write: "Owners should be aware of
the high complication rate for both procedures...." and in the text they
write: "Postoperative complications after onychectomy include pain,
lameness, bleeding, swelling, incisional dehiscence [splitting open], nerve
trauma secondary to use of a tourniquet, and tissue necrosis [tissue/cell
death] resulting from improper bandaging. Complications may develop in up to
half of onychectomized cats. Long-term complications of this procedure,
reported for about a fifth of onychectomized cats, include lameness,
infection, regrowth of claws, development of chronic draining tracts from
remnants of the distal phalanx [the last toe bone amputated with the claw to
which it is firmly attached), protrusion of the second phalanx [middle toe
bone which becomes the last toe-bone stump on which the cat has to walk
after the amputation], and development of palmagrade stance [shifting weight
to soles of feet rather than walking on toes as is the cat's natural gait]".

LAUREN

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