Sentences with phrase «larger umbilical hernias»

Smaller hernias can close up on their own, or can be left alone and never bother a pet over the course of its life; larger umbilical hernias are usually fixed during spay or neuter surgery.

Larger umbilical hernias can contain loops of the intestine.

Large umbilical hernias can strangulate when a loop of intestine gets pinched off within it.

Though her long locks covered and concealed much of her body, we also found another mass on her belly and a large umbilical hernia.

Large umbilical hernias can strangulate when a loop of intestine or portion of another body organ, gets pinched off within it.

He has a large umbilical hernia that needs repaired.

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If the hernia remains very small and uncomplicated it may resolve itself in time but large, complicated umbilical hernias require veterinary treatment.

Small umbilical hernias (a bubble - like protrusion of fat at the navel through an opening no larger than the tip of your little finger) are common in Shih Tzu and are often due to excess stress on the umbilical cord during delivery.

Experienced Berner breeders have found that bitches with umbilical hernias - some quite large - are unaffected by repeated pregnancies, even with large litters.

Typically larger in size, an irreducible umbilical hernia is one in which part of one or more abdominal organs are protruding from the opening.