Animal and Veterinary Sciences

Special Issue

Urine Retention in Animals (Causes, Signs, Diagnosis, Treatment and Preventive Measures)

  • Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Aiman Seddek
About This Special Issue
Urine retention is a common surgical affection in animals all over the world that causes economic losses. Diagnosis and treatment of this affection have been improved greatly over the last two decades. Moreover, preventive measures in the farms were improved to lower the chance of occurrence of such affection to reduce economic losses. In this special issue we focus on its clinical signs in different animal species with special reference to anatomical considerations; causes; new tools for diagnosis in clinical cases; experimental studies on that topic; different surgical methods used for treatment, and preventive measures in different animal species. The aims of the topic are to increase awareness of the problem; and to improve knowledge and skills of veterinary surgeons and how they can deal with this affection.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Signs of urine retention
  2. Causes of urine retention
  3. Diagnosis of urine retention
  4. Experimental studies on urine retention
  5. Surgical methods for treatment of urine retention
  6. Preventive measures
Lead Guest Editor
  • Aiman Seddek

    Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Radiology, Faculty of Vet Med, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

Guest Editors
  • David VanMetre

    Colorado State University, Colorado, United States

  • Magda Ali Omar

    Faculty of Vet Med, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt

  • Fatma Zakayeb

    Faculty of Vet Med, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

  • Hossam Bakr

    Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Vet Med, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt

  • Usama Hagag

    Faculty of Vet Med, Beni Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt

  • Madeh Sadan

    Department of Surgery, Faculty of Vet Med, South Valley University, Quena, Egypt

  • Mohamed Abd-Elfattah

    Faculty of Vet Med, Minia University, Minia, Egypt

  • Mohammed Elrashidy

    Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Radiology, Faculty of Vet Med, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt