Avaliação clínica nutricional e controle de peso em cães com sobrepeso ou obesidade atendidos no Hospital Veterinário da UFRPE – termografia infravermelha como auxiliar na rotina clínica veterinária – relato de caso

Abstract

The Compulsory Supervised Internship was held at the Veterinary Hospital of the Veterinary Medicine Department of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco - HOVET / UFRPE, from August 12 to November 19, 2019, supervised by Professor Daniela Maria Bastos de Souza, from the Department of Animal Morphology and Physiology - UFRPE, sponsored by Nestlé® Purina®, within the Nestlé® Purina® Young Veterinary Program. During the ESO, the aim was to provide overweight or obese dog breeders treated at the UFRPE teaching hospital with specialized care in the areas of Basic Nutrition and Small Animal Clinical Nutrition, within the Dog and Cat Weight Reduction Program. developed by Nestlé® Purina®. Through nutrition, the project sought to bring health, well-being, quality of life and longevity to the participating canines. By seeking modern, non-invasive, non-radiation, low-cost methods that can help prevent and monitor animal diseases, as well as assist in diagnosis, Infrared Thermography (IRT) has gained prominence. 4,094 thermograms from different areas of interest were evaluated. The care chosen to be reported refers to the IRT of a dog, English bulldog breed, with postoperative neurological sequelae, admitted to a private clinic in Recife, as an alternative imaging exam to better understand the possible brain injury, not diagnosed by Computed tomography, and to evaluate the peripheral circulatory repercussions from the damage. The objective of this work was to evaluate the performance of dogs submitted to weight reduction program and fed with Nestlé® Purina® Pro Plan® Veterinary Diets - Overweight Management ration, as well as to prove the effectiveness of infrared thermography as an auxiliary exam in the routine of veterinarians. It is concluded that success for weight reduction in dogs is closely correlated with the handling and disciplinarity of guardians following medical recommendations. IRT has been shown to be an effective method to assist veterinarians in their daily life in a variety of domestic canine disease situations. It was also of great importance in helping to better understand the damage from brain injury and hypothesis survey, being a collaborative examination of veterinary clinical conduct to resolve / understand the conditions.