Pancreatitis, gastrointestinal ulceration and haemorrhage and necrotising cystitis following the surgical treatment of degenerative disc disease in a dachshund.

A case of pancreatitis with gastrointestinal ulceration and haemorrhage and necrotising cystitis in a five-and-a-half-year-old dachshund bitch which unexpectedly died six days after dorsolateral fenestration was performed for thoracolumbar degenerative disc disease is described.