Surgical Treatment of Canine Filariasis

Abstract

Cardiotomy under block of venous circulation was performed on 30 experimental dogs. The limit of safety for circulatory block was confirmed to be about one minute. The rate of successful detection of filariae was 76% on the average, which was higher than that obtained by the K technique for the removal of heartworms.When the cardiotomy was applied clinically to 26 dogs, the survival rate of the dogs was 84.6% and the