The dog’s stomach was stapled in a two-hour-long procedure after which it has lost 5kg.
MUMBAI: Deepika’s finally getting back into shape. The 50kg 7-year-old Indie cross breed, pet to a family in Pune, underwent weight-reduction surgery last week. According to doctors, the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy was the first such operation done on an animal in India, reports Alex Fernandes.
Over the last few years, Deepika’s ebullience had been waning. She had put on weight, had difficulty walking, could barely stand, panted excessively. Further, she had been diagnosed with a host of ailments such as liver, kidney, cardiac and high BP besides cataract, thyroid and hernia, said Dr Narendra Pardeshi, veterinary laparoscopic surgeon from Pune. Thanks to the surgery, she is now 45kg.
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Bariatric Surgery on Animal, In a first-of-its-kind, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy surgery was performed on a dog
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