Table 4.

Outcome following LDA surgery in 54 cows

Surgical outcome	No. of cases	Percentage of cases
Insurmountable complications discovered during surgery (e.g., adhesions)	2	3.7%
Died expectedly post-op	1	1.9%
Died unexpectedly due to acute	2	3.8%
peritonitis post-op
Overall survival rate	49	90.7%
Recurrence rate of LDA post-op	1	2.0%
Cows milking 4-5 months post-op	41	83.7%
Cows in-calf post-op	39	79.6%