Piometra canina - revisão de literatura

Abstract

Pyometra is a disease caused by the action of progesterone, later favoring bacterial colonization. The diagnosis begins with a history of the patient, clinically with physical examination, and may have vulvar secretion or not, changes in laboratory and imaging tests, being the most used ultrasonography. The prognosis varies according to the time of diagnosis, depending on the evolutionary stage of the disease and type of therapy used, emphasizing that the most effective treatment is surgical, ovariosalpingohisterectomia. The present work has the objective of performing a bibliographic review about this pathology of great importance in the clinical routine, gathering relevant information as definition, diagnosis and treatment.