Innovative Surgery Provides New Lease On Life To Dogs

Friday, October 31, 2008 - 13:08 in Health & Medicine

Jake, an 11-year-old yellow Labrador retriever, was the first dog in the Midwest and only the 11th in the world to undergo surgery for a new, cementless elbow prosthesis last April. The procedure, done at MSU's Veterinary Teaching Hospital by a veterinary orthopedic surgeon, has left Jake pain-free from elbow arthritis.

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