I like complicated things, so of course the horse currently catching my eye is a four year old colt with an undescended testicle.
I immediately thought back to recent research on spaying mares via laparascopic surgery to “band” the ovaries, and wondered if anyone had researched or started doing this with ridglings.
Answer: yes.
But that’s all I can find out.
Has anyone or their vets used this procedure yet?
Experiences? Costs?
Has the sellers vet determined where the missing testicle is? Does he still have the other?
A mare can be spayed laparoscopically standing in stocks, the vets know where the ovaries will be by palpating pre-op.
Not sure the same is true for hunting down a missing testicle.
Apparently it is, and they’ve started doing the surgery on ridglings, but obviously it’s still very new so there’s not a lot of information available. I was just wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with this new tech.
They do it standing? Do they have to pinpoint the gonad’s location first?
OK …says only Intra-Abdominal Testicles can be removed by standing laparoscopic procedure, but that that’s where most retained testicles are.
How do you find out if you prospective boy is in the ‘most’ category? Do you pay for that or seller?
Yes! They do it standing!!
http://www.thehorse.com/articles/10348/cryptorchid-surgery
Laparoscopic cryptorchidectomies can be performed either with the horse standing or under general anesthesia. With standing laparoscopic cryptorchidectomies, the horse is sedated and local anesthesia is used to desensitize the skin where the camera will be introduced. General anesthesia is not necessary for this approach. In standing approaches, the camera is placed through the horse’s flank. The caudal abdomen then can be explored to see if a retained testicle is present within the abdomen. Once identified, the testicle is grasped, cut, and subsequently removed from the abdomen. In cases of unilateral cryptorchids, after removal of the retained testicle, the descended testicle is removed through a standing castration, or the horse is anesthetized and the descended testicle is removed routinely.
I haven’t any experience with and obviously didn’t even know it was happening. And am wondering if there are people here with more familiarity.
Is it necessary to determine if the testicle is in the abdomen or the inguinal canal before getting a price for laparoscopic surgery?
Would that be part of a PPE?
Let’s hope someone else who knows chimes in :lol::lol::lol:
You may be able to make a reasonable determination about this via ultrasound.
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