Sentences with phrase «mechanical obstruction»

But, eventually - without treatment - the dog's heart and pulmonary arteries become enlarged due to mechanical obstruction of the worms, inflammation and damage to the heart valves.

For those canines who do not respond to the dietary or gastroprokinetic treatments, further examination for mechanical obstructions will be required.

While these events are occurring, the dog's heart and pulmonary arteries are enlarging due to mechanical obstruction of the worms, inflammation and damage to the heart valves.

Men may have a mechanical obstruction to urine passage (usually due to an enlarged prostate).

In addition, mechanical obstruction caused by tumors, foreign bodies, hairballs, and strictures can lead to megacolon.

Syringomyelia is thought to be a slow progressive process and is a pathologic sequela of altered CSF flow dynamics, mechanical obstruction or both.

A cat may choose not to eat for many different reasons: nausea, pain, a mechanical obstruction, an inability to smell the food, a foreign substance such as a medication or a supplement in the food, a sudden change of diet or the cat is focused on another physiologic process, such as breathing.