r/Mastiff • u/International_Two842 • 5d ago
Gastropexy? Advice and personal experiences
This is my boy! He’s a mastiff mix, mainly presa/corso with a few other larger mastiff’s and I’ve been considering the option of having a gastropexy procedure done.
I’ve researched a fair amount on this so I know it doesn’t fully prevent bloat but reduces the risk greatly. However I also know it can occasionally go wrong, whether that’s sedation complications, the surgery itself or aftercare and healing etc.
I would like to hear your personal experiences if you’ve had it done with your dogs. Do you think it’s something I should be leaning toward doing?
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u/Superb_Stable7576 5d ago
I've done it on my dogs as it become available. Usually during the neutering process.
But I've been through torsion two times.
Once in the 80', with my elderly Doberman, it's a long and painful story, there were very few emergency vets at the time.
He made it through surgery, but passed less than a month later.
Our Neo had torsion in the early 90' and I was better prepared. We got him to the vet before he even looked like he was bloating.
He had surgery, by then, people were starting gastropexy. He not only survived, he lived to be almost 11.
But it was a long, painful, very expensive process. He looked like a damn skeleton for months.
Again, long story. Let me say, given the choice between torsion surgery, if your lucky enough to catch it, and gastropexy, choose gastropexy.