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A mesenteric torsion is the twisting of the intestines around the mesenteric axis. The mesentery is the suspension system for the intestines. The many feet of the intestines are suspended by a pretty small mesenteric root that contains the attachment of the mesentery and the major blood vessels providing nutrients to the intestines. Occasionally, this system ca twist on itself causing serious, often fatal consequences.
The mortality rate is almost 100% and was once thought to be a rare condition, but evidence has brought to light the fact that this is occurring with ever increasing incidence and has been seen to occur more commonly in German Shepherds than any other breed. The symptoms of this condition are rapid onset of shock, abdominal pain and vomiting. The twisting stops the blood flowing to the intestines, causing tissues to die immediately. This condition causes a dilemma for veterinarians as the symptoms are often nebulis and diagnosis is difficult. The dog is usually “down” – in shock, making any surgical options a tough decision.
The underlying cause for mesenteric torsion is any condition that that irritates the bowel, such as infections diseases of the gut (parvo, coronovirus, foreign body obstructions, inflammatory bowel disease, intestinal parasites, etc.) It is believed bu some that allowing too much activity following a big meal can be a predisposing factor. In my own experience, this has seemed to play a role in some cases of mesenteric torsion. It happens most commonly in young dogs less than one year of age, and must be considered as a possibility in any puppy presenting vomiting with abdominal pain.
As previously noted, diagnosis can be difficult in the short time that surgical management may still be a viable option to save the patients’s life, which is why many patients die before treatment can be initiated.
Therefore, any puppy experiencing severe vomiting with abdominal pain, should be seen by a veterinarian ASAP.
By: Roger L. Welton, DVM
Founder, Web-DVM
President, Maybeck Animal Hospital
CEO, Dr. Roger’s Holistic Veterinary Care
Article Updated 5/23/2014
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My vet at Pawleys Island, SC diagnosed my dogs death from this malady. He was an 8 year old, 92 pound Lab who was a “class act”. Thank you for this information.
Had this happen to my 21 month old German Shepherd today. He was fine at 6:00 PM last evening, by 9:00 he was in pain and at 02:00 started to vomit. To him to the emergency clinic where they took the X-rays and diagnosed his condition. By 12:00 he was gone. Hugo was the best and will be missed greatly. This is my 4th Shephard and had never even heard of this until today.
Thank you for your web site.
This happened to our 8 month old German Shepard. She started to vomit around 6pm. Seemed like she was just fighting a bug and wanted to be left alone. Could never really get comfortable to lay down and rest. Kept on vomitting for a few hours and when we let her outside she wanted to find a place to burrow and hide. The night did not go well. She vomitted more and was not better by morning. We took her into vet. The vet ran a blood test. But by the time the blood test results were back she had passed. Blood test showed that maybe she had gotten into ibuprofen or something poisonous but this was not the case. After she had passed the vet decided to open her up and diagnose. His diagnosis was a mesenteric torsion. He said there was nothing he could have done even if we had brought her in when she first started to vomit. Very rair condition. Something many vets only hear about in their schooling.
This happened to my 3 year old Standard Poodle. All was fine in the morning, played ball, etc. In the evening I fed her dinner and approximately 30 minutes later she vomited up her dinner in 5 different areas of the house. I kept an eye on her and notice she could not get comfortable laying, standing, sitting, etc. She just kept getting up and moving from place to place, inside and outside and back in again. I noticed when she was laying down trying to get comfortable she was pulling her back legs up like she was having abdominal pain. I put her in the car and got her to the ER right away. Blood work was run and at the time was normal. Xrays were taken and the xray was abnormal in that they could see some gas but the intestinal area was pretty loopy and double the size and a blockage was suspect. It was now midnight and I had signed off for emergency exploratory abdominal surgery. The oncall surgereon was called to perform the surgery. Unfortunately, by the time they started the surgery, 5am the next morning my furbaby’s small intestines were twisted and blood flow had been cut off. 80% of her intestines would have had to have been removed. I was told she would never be the same dog with only 20% of her intestines left. I was also told that she may not even make it out of surgery or even make a full recovery and it would be very tough on her. There was a huge time lapse between when I brought my furbaby in to the ER and when they actually performed surgery, almost 6-7 hours later. Time is of the essence with Mesenteric Torsion if you suspect your dog may have this, please don’t sit and wait patiently for the vets to act. I will always wonder if the ER Vets would have performed exploratory abdominal surgery on her after I brought her in if she would have made it. Again, when I brought her in her blood work was normal and no diahrea. She got worse while at the ER. I think this condition is more prevelant these days but you just don’t hear about it. It’s fatal. Your dog can be perfectly fine in the morning and gone by the end of the day. By 5am the next morning my baby was gone. Please don’t wait or allow Vets to wait because they aren’t 100% sure of what is going on if your dog shows these symptoms. This is a matter of life or death.
My Borzoi 8 year old died of mesenteric torsion that was diagnosed quickly but there was a delay getting a surgeon to the ER. I will always wonder about the delay but at least I know he lived every day of his life knowing he was cherished. Sometimes the life force just stops
My experience with a 16month GSD was amongst identical. There’s just not enough time to save the dog once diagnosis is made.
My 6 yr old Great Dane was just released from the ER vet hospital Mar 28, 2016 after having a colectomy following colonic torsion / voluvus. He also lost much of his small intestines. We went to one ER vet the night of Mar 22 because he vomited up his breakfast that day and then bike at 5PM. Following that he was just laying around shaking. That vet gave him barium and took X-rays and sent us home. Because he wasn’t any better, we retuned the next morning and took more X-rays and did blood work. When they said they couldn’t figure out what it was (because if it was a foreign object it should have moved) we went to our normal vet.
Our normal vet sent us to a surgeon and ER. They saw us right away and took more X-rays. He stayed over night. The next day after more X-rays, we decided to open him up! The dr found horrific stuff- he had never seen anything like it Ina a gastropexied Dane! He refused to eat and battled lots of drainage and infection. But eventually the antibiotics broke it and the drainage was gone!
Once the pain patch was pulled he began eating. He is still on a small dose of pain pills and eating well. Stiched come out next Thurs! Now we just need to pray his stools firm up because his butt is raw!
We lost our 2 yr old Weimaraner this past weekend. She seemed to suffer from bowel problems chronically. So we were real careful with her food and no table food. The breeder was not helpful from very early on when her stomach/ bowel issue persisted. Well this past weekend she was happy and playful and then vomited 10 times, her stomach became like a huge balloon we rushed her to the animal hospital and they took an X-ray and the vet came in and said she was not going to make it it! She has a mesenteric torsion. All within 2 hours she was gone. We are broken our personal vet said her had never seen this, breeders we speak to say they have never heard of that issue with Weimaraners, some had to even ask what it was… The ER Vet said it was extremely rare. Ugh we miss Molly. She was only 2!! It can happen apparently.
Our 4 month old chocolate lab was “out of sorts” on Monday night. She had a normal day, played outside, her sister lives next door, it was 85 degrees out and had access to water all day. At 8.30, she wanted nothing to do with her dinner, my husband picked her up and carried her to her dish (super abnormal for her and any lab I know). She ate half of her bowl and then threw it up immediately. My husband kept saying “it was hot out and she is so tired from playing”. I know her and this is her typical day. She was out In her kennel by my husband to “rest”, I heard her whimpering so I opened her kennel and she wouldn’t come out to me. Very unlike her! I did a quick Google search “lathargic dogs” and it said to check her gums for the coloring. I lifted her Jowels and couldn’t tell the difference between her teeth and her gums (super white, she’s 18 weeks old). I texted my neighbor (who is a vet), and asked where the nearest emergency vet was. She met us in our driveway and looked her over. She looked very depressed and had a hard knot like lump in her tummy. Our neighbor told us that she suspected rat poison, or swallowed something. She told us to go, she called ahead to get us seen faster. (10.30pm) We walked in, they checked her heart rate, a little fast, her gums had gotten slightly pinker. We were not seen as an emergency, so we waited for three hours in the waiting area. When we were seen (1.30am) by the vet she did an exam, Nellie (our lab) arched her back when she touched her tummy. She had an X-ray and it showed a “blockage” in her intestine, it was four times the size it should be. We were asked if we wanted to take her in for surgery that night after pushing liquids for two hours or if they could do liquids and then we could take her into our vets to have he surgery done ther (at probably half the cost). We chatted privately and decided that because we saw that she was in pain that we should go ahead with the surgery and just get it done! We kissed her goodbye and took bets on what our lab had gotten into. Nellie had surgery at 3.30am. At 5.30am we received the call from the vet and she informed us that “no foreign object was found”, and in fact had Mesentric Torsion. She had 50% of her intestine removed and was in recovery. My husband and I were in SHOCK! We really thought they would find one of the million pacifiers we had laying around our house. Our puppy had major surgery and survived! We had no idea how big of a deal this was, until I did another Google search. She is our miracle puppy! The choice to take her in on such mild symptoms still shocks us both, and the decision to just get her in for the surgery that night and not take her to the vets in the morning was a life saving decision. She is in recovery from her surgery. The vet said her intestine looked like “black rope”. She had 2.5′ removed. She’s the luckiest dog alive! Our vet spoke to an internist specialist at the University and all she could respond with was “these dogs die”! We are feeding her soft food, for now. She’s on antibiotics and probiotics. Other than that she’s sore but slow to move. Crazy whirlwind of the past few days, but so far so good! Continued thoughts and prayers for her are much appreciated!
Our 8 week old Golden has undergone two surgeries in the past 3 days we are praying every minute she gets through this……. we have a ‘gofundme’ account on Facebook as it is running into $1000s we are just trying to give her a chance
My 18 month old boxer puppy refused his food one night. He was playful and acting completely normal, but he had no interest in food (he actually ran from every thing I offered him to eat, the same way he runs from the vacuum cleaner)! I also noticed two piles of vomit in our garden. I had just lost my other boxer to a sudden and shocking, lung cancer, so I was on high aIert with my other dogs!!! I told my husband I was taking the puppy to our vet. My husband thought I was over reacting, because Roger (our baby boxer) was so playful. Our vet examined him and took X-rays and said it was possible it could be a blockage. She couldn’t really see anything on the X-rays to definitely show a blockage, but there was an area of his intestines,mthat looked like the were consatinered, like an accordion. She gave us too choices, we could either take him home over night and monitor him, or she could keep him over night and monitor him. Of course I chose the latter. After I got home, I asked my husband to check the house with me, to see if we could find anything he may have chewed and swallowed. We did find a towel with a strip torn off, and we couldn’t find the strip. We really couldn’t remember if it was already like that, or if Roger could have done it that day. I called our vet and told her about the towel and she immediately said if he had eaten that she needed to open him up. I gave her the go ahead and then spent the next 30 minutes questioning myself as to whether or not I had put him in for major surgery, when he may not have even eaten the towel!!! About 45 minutes later she called me and told me he had Mesenteric torsion!!! I had never even heard of it! She basically explained to me, that had she not opened him up, he would have gone into shock during the night and died. She said it’s pretty much a 100% mortality rate. She tacked his stomach while she was in there and after a few days spent at the hospital, followed by a few weeks recovery at home, my sweet baby boxer boy is now almost 5 years old and still bouncing around our home. I thank God every day for him and I think of my beautiful boxer whom I lost to lung cancer and I thank him, because I know he was watching over us.
Hi, Not sure how old this post is but my shep had Mesenteric torsion and survived but he has not gained any weight in 3 mo. we feed raw and he would not eat the recommendend food by the vet I am only trying to find help to help him gain his weight back. Have you found any sites???
Our 7 month old Sheperd has just gone through this. Had emergency surgery a week ago. Part of his intestine has no blood flow. We believe he had an earlier episode of this in May and the twist corrected itself. He is healing well but having experienced this twice in 3 months, we are VERY nervous about the future and how to prevent this from happening again. He is a very active dog and for now we are trying to curtail is exercise, make sure he does not gulp down his food and water, which he definitely does, and going forward make sure that he does not have strenuous activity within 2 hours of eating. It feels like a ticking bomb and though all of our vets are researching this condition for us, we have not come to any kind of definitive answer as to how to prevent this from happening again.
My 6 1/2 y/o GSD had it happen twice in 10days. He had surgery after the first event and they did a gastropexy. He was doing great and appeared to have made a full recovery. TEN DAYS later same symptoms as the first time and rushed him to the vet. Xray show mesenteric torsion AGAIN. This time they sutured the intestines together and to the abdominal wall but I am terrified that this will continue to happen. I don’t know what to do. We are awaiting pathology to see if there is an underlying Chrons dx or another cause.
I just lost my 6 month old Irish Wolfhound to Mesenteric Torsion yesterday. He was fine at 5:00 pm, and started vomiting huge amounts at 6:00 pm. It had the most foul smell…not like any “normal” vomit. Then he started with diarrhea, also not normal. (We had dealt with chronic diarrhea for a couple of months but he had been good for the last 24 days.) Normally, it just looked like pudding, this was lighter and full of mucus. He would just lay and diarrhea wuold just come out. Took him to emercency vet at 10:00 p.m., had no choice but to put him down. Vet said he would not live through surgery and he was full of gas and probably in a lot of pain. Anyone with a large breed dog that notices symptoms that just don’t seem normal, please get x-rays right away. This is a terrible way to lose a dog.
We lost our 8 month old cavapoo to mesenteric torsion saturday. He vomited in the afternoon, was running and playing with the kids later that afternoon. That evening he started vomitting again and couldn’t get comfortable. We had a rough night, but at 1 point after vomitting, he looked better, his tail was wagging we thought he ate something outside and judt needed to get it out of his system. In the morning he looked weak and dehydrated so we went to the vet, his temp was low and an xray showed a possible intestinal obstruction and swollen intestines. We were referred to the emergency clinic for an ultrasound. Got there at 11am. Ultrasound unfortnuately was not performed for 1 1/2 hrs as a technition was not on hand and needed to be called in. At 1pm obstruction was confirmed, unfortunately there appeared to be a perforation. Surgery was to be performed immediately. Although he was not stable. However surgeon did not get there till 3pm. During that time he coded, was brought back, but when incubated blood poured out of his mouth and torsion was suspected. Although odds were slim we weny ahead with surgery to give him a chance (he was only 8 monthd old, only a baby). In surgery, torsion was confirmed, 50% of his intestines were going to be removed with no guarantee he would recover. Unfortunately he didn’t make it through surgery. He coded a 2nd time and could not be brought back. Awful disease. He demeanor changed so quickly. I will always wonder if the delay in the vet hospital lowered his chances, although I was told he was very sick when he came in. I will never ignore a dogs vomitting again. I’ve had dogs my whole life, they always got into things and vomitted. Never heard of this before.
This happened to our German Shepard yesterday. Zoey was diagnosed with Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI) a few months ago and at 1yr and 3 months passed away. It happened so fast…came home from work & immediately noticed she was acting different, didn’t greet me at the door, didn’t eat, drink or play. Vomited a few times during the evening. I worked from home the next day to keep an eye on her. She moved to a few corner spots a few times in the morning, still no signs of progression. I moved her back to her crate and within the hour she started panting like she was out of breath. She walked out of her crate & collapsed on the floor. I rushed her to ER who performed CPR but it was too late. Vet performed an autopsy and confirmed she passed from Mesentric Torsion. Was told her intestines were twisted and purple. Vet said there was nothing they could do even if we had brought her in at the first signs of symptoms. Never heard of this condition until nowZoey will forever be in our hearts.
I just lost my almost 2 year old pup to this. Restlessness started at about 10am and then vomiting happened about 5 times every ten minutes. Called the vet and was a drop in appointment. Got to the vets around noon. She became super lethargic very quickly. Originally I thought she had an obstruction and the X-rays pointed that way as well. Went ahead for the surgery and then found out it was her intestines were dead due to being twisted and in a knot. There was no saving any part of her intestines. She was perfectly fine all morning until she became restless and then, before 4pm she was gone.
Just lost our 18 month old GSD. She had a great day today. She showed the first signs of illness about 10PM. Took her to an emergency vet immediately. It’s 2AM, and she’s gone… Had to euthanize her- nothing could be done to help her.
We lost our 21 month old male GSD yesterday to this silent killer. He had such a joyous personality and it shined all day Sunday. Yesterday morning he was a bit wobbly when he first got up, he threw up once & was taken to vet. It’s so similar to the other postings I’ve read here- X-rays, possible blockage, as they determined mesenteric volvus, he was gone. The vet said he had never experienced a case in his practice. It was so sudden, tragic and heartbreaking.
Sasha our beautiful four year old German Shepherd passed last Thursday. I happened to stop by the house at lunch and she was fine. After work she didn’t greet me at the door or want her afternoon treat or walk. Highly unusual behavior for her. I noticed two places she had vomited which was just bile and foam. Nothing solid. She kept going to her favorite spots but could not get comfortable. Her nose and gums becam very cold. I rushed her to the emergency hospital and they immediately took x-rays and gave her fluids. Her red blood count was at 85%. We opted immediately for surgery and as soon as they opened her up realized that her intestines and organs were so entwined there was nothing they could do. We are beside ourselves as how rapid and fatal this condition is and there is relatively nothing that can be done. We miss her greatly and hope others do not have to endure this same fate.
We just lost our beautiful German Shepherd to this 3 days ago. She was 3 1/2 years old. She was great all day then she started vomiting. I got her to vet within 2 hrs of this starting. He did X-rays gave pain med and fluids and said not stomach bloat but has gas will need to work it out. I took her home and she passed in the night. So heartbreaking. I never even knew about this disorder before now. The vet opened her up because he was shocked she passed and he said she had mesenteric torsion. We are heartbroken.
My 18 month old boxer puppy refused his food one night. He was playful and acting completely normal, but he had no interest in food (he actually ran from every thing I offered him to eat, the same way he runs from the vacuum cleaner)! I also noticed two piles of vomit in our garden. I had just lost my other boxer to a sudden and shocking, lung cancer, so I was on high aIert with my other dogs!!! I told my husband I was taking the puppy to our vet. My husband thought I was over reacting, because Roger (our baby boxer) was so playful. Our vet examined him and took X-rays and said it was possible it could be a blockage. She couldn’t really see anything on the X-rays to definitely show a blockage, but there was an area of his intestines,mthat looked like the were consatinered, like an accordion. She gave us too choices, we could either take him home over night and monitor him, or she could keep him over night and monitor him. Of course I chose the latter. After I got home, I asked my husband to check the house with me, to see if we could find anything he may have chewed and swallowed. We did find a towel with a strip torn off, and we couldn’t find the strip. We really couldn’t remember if it was already like that, or if Roger could have done it that day. I called our vet and told her about the towel and she immediately said if he had eaten that she needed to open him up. I gave her the go ahead and then spent the next 30 minutes questioning myself as to whether or not I had put him in for major surgery, when he may not have even eaten the towel!!! About 45 minutes later she called me and told me he had Mesenteric torsion!!! I had never even heard of it! She basically explained to me, that had she not opened him up, he would have gone into shock during the night and died. She said it’s pretty much a 100% mortality rate. She tacked his stomach while she was in there and after a few days spent at the hospital, followed by a few weeks recovery at home, my sweet baby boxer boy is now almost 5 years old and still bouncing around our home. I thank God every day for him and I think of my beautiful boxer whom I lost to lung cancer and I thank him, because I know he was watching over us.
just lost my 5yr old gsd to this, i’m so so sorry to anyone else who has lost their dog to this, my heart is broken, my world is shattered, we were at emergency vets within 20 mins of him first being sick, he died on the operating table, i can’t talk about it now it’s too raw but please go with ur gut, u know ur dog, if u think something is wrong get to the vet asap
Beau is a bull terrier pup 10 months old. Two months ago he was vomiting during play. He had a gastrointestinal block. The block may have been there for up to two months unnoticed. Beau had an operation to remove object. The very next day the vet had to perform another emergency operation for peritonitis. 3 weeks after surgery all seemed fine, then began vomiting again. The vet operated, found he had twisted intestines. Once released the color normalised. They noticed scar tissue from previous operation which they feel is normal, but also see that his stomach has fused to his liver. I am really worried for Beau, what can be done????
Beau is a bull terrier pup 10 months old. Two months ago he was vomiting during play. He had a gastrointestinal block. The block may have been there for up to two months unnoticed. Beau had an operation to remove object. The very next day the vet had to perform another emergency operation for peritonitis. 3 weeks after surgery all seemed fine, then began vomiting again. The vet operated, found twisted intestine. Once released the color normalised. They noticed scar tissue from previous operation which they feel is normal, but also see that his stomach has fused to his liver.
I am really worried for Beau, what can be done? Can twisted intestines reoccur? Is the fusing of his stomach and liver fatal?
We just lost our 22 month old GSD Joey to this condition this morning. After a day of being a bit lethargic, he vomited last night.
After taking him to the hospital he was gone within minutes. The doctor told us that this is common in German Shepherds. She also told us that even if he was diagnosed immediately his chances would not be good.
We are devastated and are in shock, losing our Joey. Our thoughts, and prayers are with anyone who has this happen.
RIP. Joey
Hi, My 2 year old German Shorthaired Pointer is recovering from intestinal torsion surgery 12 days ago. She has had a gastro-sexy. Intestine were fine after being untangled. She is doing ok but very lethargic.
River is a dry land sprint sled dog.
My question is will she be able to race again?
Our race season is 5-6 months away.
Just lost my Sasha a 9 year old Yellow lab to colonic torsion! Woke up I’m the morning and she ate! Refused to walk to do her hurray ups! Selective with eating during day but ate her supper vigorously! Came home to find she committed her supper was panting and shivering in pain. Started to have diarrhea also. Took her to Emergency Animal Clinic and they thought she had gastroenteritis from eating something foul! They started intravenous gave pain medication and started antibiotic. By morning she went into shock and X-ray showed torsion! Emergency Surgery but her torsion had cut off her vascular supply and we had to let her go!!! Wnile this is rare in dogs it’s often missed! Vets need to do X-ray more often with GI issues in dogs! I’m devastated and feel guilty thinking I should have seen the signs!
My 15-week old Swiss Mountain Dog just went in for this this past Tuesday (2/27/18) morning. At 6:00 pm on 2/26/18, my wife was walking him and said he had a semi-soft stool along the walk. When he came home from the walk, he was sitting down and his penis was hanging, flaccid, pretty far out. I just thought he was really excited to be home. That night he was laying on the ground and I rested my head on him like a pillow, in which he showed no symptoms of being in any kind of discomfort. One thing I did notice was that as he was walking up the stairs, he brought both hind legs up the step at a time, like a rabbit.
The next morning, about 6:00 am on 2/27/18 my wife woke up to let him out of his crate and he had puked in it. She let him outside, cleaned his crate, let him inside and he walked over to his bed and puked again. She cleaned it up, brought him into the bathroom while I was taking a shower, and shortly after I smelled a foul smell. I looked and he had puked again on the bathroom floor. I took him outside and he peed a couple times. My wife asked me if I was going to stay home with him and I thought she was crazy. We had a Bernese Mountain Dog that would often get diarrhea and/or vomit around the spring thaw, which we experience in Michigan, from chewing on grass and stuff that he had not seen in months. In this case, I figured I would go to work and he would be better by the time I came home.
I tried to give him some food and water and he drank, but would not take any food. He kept wanting to sit. As I tried to lift up his rear end by going under his stomach, he made some noises which told me that he was having unusual stomach pain. I took him outside and he puked again. I knew something wasn’t right and I thought it may have been the beginning symptoms of Parvo.
I took him to the vet at 8:00 am and the vet took a temp, which was normal at 102°. When he was sitting down his penis was hanging, flaccid, again. She then decided to run an X-ray because of the stomach pain and saying that it was abnormal for his penis to be hanging out like that.
After taking the x-ray, she saw a couple small foreign objects, most likely tiny rocks, and also saw gas. She showed me the x-ray and said that her main concern was the gas, and what was causing it, so she’d have to open him up. Of course, I asked about the possible cause, the possibility of him passing the rocks himself without doing surgery, and then the cost. I told her to open him up and let me know what she found. I thought, for sure, that she’d find one of my kitten’s toy mice in there. By 11:00 am he was in surgery. When the vet called me, she told me that it was a mesenteric torsion and that she had to remove 4” of the intestine. She said that we were lucky that we found it when we did as most dogs pass from it. She said we must be really in tune with our dog to realize those symptoms because she hadn’t encountered it in her 25 years of practice. Once in recovery, she said that the next 2-7 days would be really touchy as he could experience septicemia.
He is just over 48 hours out of surgery and we got the green light that he is coming home today. He is spunky, eating a bit of soft food, walking around, urinating, and having loose stool. Hopefully, he continues to progress and we can put this behind us.
How is your dog? My son’s dog is about 48 hours post op. He is acting normal but hasn’t passed stool yet.
I lost my mini yorkie flo one monday morning to this i notice friday evening she couldnt get comfy then at 4ish in the morning she vomited. By nine she could barely walk i took her straight to the vets. Vet checked an admitted her then done xrays they came back clear so she was put on fluids an antibiotics by the sunday morning she had got worse so vet decided to open her up. An thats wen she found it part of her intestine had twisted an died she had to get 6″ cut out. She came round from the surgery but had sepsis she was very weak by 12 sunday night she took a turn for the worst an from 12 to just after 4 in the morning flo slowly slipped away it has broke my heart. Its eating me up wondering if the vet had of opened her on the Saturday would she have survived x
The vet done all she could and was absolutely devastated wen flo past she tried her best with her took flo to her home an stayed up all night with her but flo wasnt strong enough to fight it. An nothing can change wat happened.
My 6 1/2 y/o GSD had mesentery torsion happen on 4/14. He was acting restless on 4/13, the morning of 4/14 he didn’t get excited when my boyfriend came home from work like he usually does. He had difficulty passing stool and became extremely lethargic. He eventually started to vomit and would refuse to finish our afternoon walk. We took him to the emergency vet where they did xrays and saw his colon was enlarged and they thought it was a foreign object and did an ex-lap. When they opened him up they found nothing but twisted intestines. Blood supply was not compromised so they were able to untwist everything and did a gastropexy.
He was on the road to recovery and acting great. 10 days post op he became the same symptoms, nausea, lethargy, no interest in food. He would try to poop but would immediately sit down on the grass. Overnight he became restless so I took him back to the emergency vet @ 2100. I was told he probably has gastroenteritis from the surgery and was sent home with pain meds, probiotics and anti nausea meds.
In the early morning he was crying so much I thought he was dying. At 0400 we went for a walk and he produced 2 liquid bowl movements and calmed down and slept the rest of the night/morning. In the morning he refused to eat, was drooling and in visible pain again. We went back to the emergency vet around noon where they took xrays and saw his intestines were filled with gas but unable to tell if they were torsed.
We drove to a specialty surgery center about an hr away and they immediately took him back for surgery. I was told to expect the worst and he most likely wont make it. I sent him for surgery anyway. They opened him up and his intestines were filled with gas but had not yet torsed but were trying to. His intestines were sutured together and sutured to the abdominal wall. He is at the emergency vet 2 days after surgery and recovering well but they don’t know why this happened twice in 10 days. I am extremely nervous this may happen a third time but lucky he was able to survive this horrible event twice. I see so many other GSDs did not survive and it makes me thankful he was a lucky one.
My beloved GSD Jordy turned two on 4/25/18. He developed mesenteric torsion on on 5/11/18. Just like everyone else he ate dinner at 6pm on 5/10 and was fine all night. He got up with my wife at 3am as usual, went outside came in and then at 7 am he got up with me and threw up all his undigested food. Then he started throwing up all over the back yard first the usual yellow sudsy stuff then clear. I came home at 10 am he seemed a little better but that lasted a hole 10 mins. He started throwing up again. I left him outside for 15 mins checked on him and saw blood droplets on the patio. I immediately called my vet got him in by 11am and she had a very worried look right away and had Jordy under the knife by noon. It was too late. He had no intestine left. I still can’t believe it happened. HE WAS THE MOST LOVABLE DOG I EVER HAD!! SO LOYAL, SO BEAUTIFUL. I LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH SIR JORDY. MAY YOU RIP.
So, I along with everyone else am in agony trying to figure out what I did wrong. But as you can see it happened within 5 hours with us. It almost seems like we have no chance! I wish all of you the best and good luck to those few that survived.
God Bless
Our #AutumnBreeze passed from this a month ago, she is a German Shepherd. She ate, went outside, 15 min later started throwing up, panting, her stomach was enlarged, she started foaming at the mouth, took her to er, but was too far advanced. Within 2 hours she was gone, just under 3 yrs old. I feel like I should have been able to do more, she also suffered from EPI, but nobody told us torsion was common in GS, or with EPI.
We lost our two year old Vizsla last night to this condition. Similar to other comments, he was fine in the morning but became lethargic around three PM. He wouldn’t eat his evening meal and was noticably cool to the touch. Called the vet and they advised to watch him and bring him to the hospital in the morning. Bailey was trying to drink large amounts of water. Around 11 PM he slide off the couch and was unable to support himself. We rushed him over to the WVRC emergency hospital. We believed that he had an instruction since we had an earlier episode last summer that required surgery. The vet performed an ultrasound and some blood tests that indicated sepsis and possible mesenteric torsion or a blockage. We elected to have surgery. The surgeon arrived in an hour, opened him up and confirmed mesenteric torsion. At this point we has no option but to put him down. It was all over by 1:30 pm. The team at WVRC were wonderful. The vet was very realistic in her prognosis as she has had three previous cases and none survived. We are still in shock losing our beautiful loving pet, I can’t get the last image of him on the operating table with his trusting look out of my mind.
We are going through this Mesenteric Torsion in my 2 yr old shepherd. He was acting like he was uncomfortable could not stay laying down all over even in his crate. I thought it may be bloat so went to vet immediately. They took xrays he was dehydrated gave pain meds and sent us to 24 hr vet. They took him in quickly and with in a hr he was diagnosed with MT. Surgery was performed and they called us about 11:00pm and said his intestines were all black and colon so he would not have a quality of life to call us back for the decision to put him down. They called back and said his intestines and colon had started to pinken up and there could be a chance. So we said go for it. This was Wednesday and its now Saturday and we have visited him everyday. He is pretty medicated and hooked up to all kinds of tubes. He is getting fed with feeding tube. I was out of my mind going through this as he is only 2 and the best dog. Today they will make an assessment of where he is and what the next steps are. We have also started a gofund page on facebook as we are over 15,000 and not sure whats next. I am hoping he makes it as I have had 8 shepherds and he is so special I can’t imagine life with out him. The vets are so impressed with him that he survived. I think getting to the vet as quickly may have helped. I have read all these past stories and its unbelievable that nobody had ever heard of this, even the breeder and most savvy dog people. Everyday is a plus for him making it.
Trying to find out more info on 7 mos ago my GSD survived Mestric. Torsion and survived after a long recovery. 2 weeks ago his liver enzymes went to almost 7000. Back at vet overnight antibiotics liver support pills Hill’s science diet zd. He is doing much better and has gained 10 lbs in a week. As he was extremely underweight for his size. He went from 55 lbs to 62 and is still gaining. Could there be any relationship from his surgery to the liver enzymes so high out of the clear blue sky???
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