Table 4.

Neurological status at discharge and long-term outcome of dogs treated conservatively and surgically for SEE.

	All dogs	Conservatively treated dogs	Surgically treated dogs	P-value
Survived to discharge	37/41 (90.2%)	19/22 (86.4%)	18/19 (94.7%)	0.610
Neurological grade at discharge
0	4/37 (10.8%)	3/19 (15.8%)	1/18 (5.6%)	0.221
1	9/37 (24.3%)	5/19 (26.3%)	4/18 (22.2%)
2	18/37 (48.6%)	9/19 (47.4%)	9/18 (50.0%)
3	5/37 (13.5%)	2/19 (10.5%)	3/18 (16.7%)
4	1/37 (2.7%)	0/19 (0.0%)	1/18 (5.6%)
5	0/37 (0%)	0/19 (0.0%)	0/18 (0.0%)
Ambulatory at discharge	31/37 (83.8%)	17/19 (89.5%)	14/18 (77.8%)	0.405
Urinary/fecal incontinence	0/36 (0%)	0/19 (0.0%)	0/18 (0.0%)	1.000