The authors analyse the importance of hypotensiondue to acute hypovolemia as an etiopathological factorin digestiva suture leakage. AMstomoses at dlfferent intestinallevels were made in dogs submitted to extremehypotension due to per and immediate post-operativehaemorrhage. The authors come to the conclusion thathypotension as an isolated factor does no play an essentialrole in the appearance of digestive suture leakage indogs.

Se analiza la importancia del factor hipotensión porhipovolemia aguda en la etiopatogenia de la falla de suturasdigestivas, mediante la reallzaclón de anastomosisen diferentes niveles intestinales en perros sometidosa hipotensiones extremas por hemorragia per ypost-operatoria inmediata. Se concluye que la hipotensióncomo factor aislado no juega un papel fundamentalen la aparición de falla de suturas digestivas en elperro.