https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/7654/retained-placenta-in-5-day-whelped-bitch Has anyone ever used endoscopy to remove a retained placenta ? Have given her oxytocin but i am guessing that as she is feeding 10 pups well that I will have to go in and get it, just thinking that in women they wouldn&#39;t surgically open the uterus toen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34268?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:23:17 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:15bed01e-0b8c-4abf-89de-08cf01e43496Richard Fox<p>Have you considered partial placental involution (Partial involution of placental sites?). Not saying it is but it does sound a bit suspicious?</p> <p><a target='_blank' target="_blank" href="http://www.abbeyvetservices.co.uk/newsletters/apr06.htm">http://www.abbeyvetservices.co.uk/newsletters/apr06.htm</a></p> <p><img src="http://www.abbeyvetservices.co.uk/images/placental_histology.jpg" style="max-width:550px;border:0;" border="0" height="280" width="420" alt="" /></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34263?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:01:06 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:c0ef3b0a-568f-434e-831c-eca5c8e78214Martin Atkinson<p>I can&#39;t say I&#39;ve ever had an issue with a retained placenta so long as there wasn&#39;t a whelp still attached to it. I used to remove every placenta after every caesarian until I had a bulldog which bled to death per-vagina. I now leave them alone if they won&#39;t come out very easily and apart from a more prolonged discharge never had a problem.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34135?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:25:07 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1763f871-f80a-4ae9-be4d-1520b811b3a2Andrew Mellor<p>6mm flexible 1m gastroscope - well cleaned obviously ! worked really well- to a point ! </p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34134?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:11:23 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:99fb5fa6-be14-4961-acf8-19a6983fab21Evelyn Barbour-Hill<p>Interesting. What kind of endoscope did you use?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34127?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:37:09 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:bc561c1e-e92e-48d9-b0ad-5ee7b0aec265Vet2Vet<p>Sounds like the best outcome !! And very sound evidence to work with .</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34126?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:07:08 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:e75586a4-8282-46dd-84c9-80678bd473a7Andrew Mellor<p>normal post op slime turned to fresh bleeding ultrasound big thickened area in uterus, anyway I have now scoped her and got in to one horn really nicely , the other one more difficult and there was definate fresh bleeding from this side , entered this horn and I was faced with just a red field , started suctioning and after what looked like a lot of blood and still I could not see anything clearly I checked the discharge and there were bigs of pussy stuff in there too so decided to open her up heavy metritis on one side so spayed her ! </p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/34125?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:08:55 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:1eac620c-c921-4fdf-bda5-15d0fb997bfcMichael Woodhouse<p>How have you diagnosed this? Not something I&#39;ve given any real thought to as the bitches can eat them very quickly.</p> <p>Is the bitch showing any symptoms? If not maybe wait and see?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>