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Acquired fistulas were further subdivided etiologically into 2 distinct categories: (1)\n primary chronic fistulas<\/jats:italic>\n , defined as full-thickness teat lacerations that were not recognized promptly and healed by second intention, and (2)\n surgery-related fistulas<\/jats:italic>\n , defined as fistulas arising as a postoperative complication of primary laceration closure. Defects were closed using a 2- or 3-layer technique with polyglactin 910 or chromic gut sutures. A binary logistic regression model was used to analyze the association between fistula recurrence and the predictor variables in cows with acquired fistulas.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n Surgical repair was uniformly successful for congenital fistulas, whereas the overall recurrence rate following surgery for acquired fistulas was 40.5%. The presence of postsurgical mastitis was the most significant risk factor, increasing the odds of recurrence more than 16-fold. Holstein cows with surgery-related fistulas had 4.7 times the odds of recurrence compared with Holsteins with primary chronic fistulas.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n The prognosis is favorable for congenital teat fistulas, while it is guarded for acquired fistulas. Postoperative mastitis is a profound risk factor for failure.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Clinical Relevance<\/jats:title>\n Successful surgical outcomes depend more on infection control than the specific choice of closure technique or suture material.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.2460\/javma.25.12.0803","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,30]],"date-time":"2026-04-30T17:07:57Z","timestamp":1777568877000},"page":"1067-1072","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Mastitis greatly increases the risk of teat fistula surgical repair failure: a retrospective study of 92 lactating dairy cattle (1994\u20132019)"],"prefix":"10.2460","volume":"264","author":[{"given":"Saeed","family":"Azizi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery and Diagnostic Imaging, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bahram","family":"Dalir-Naghadeh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1272","reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"ref1","series-title":"Can Vet J.","first-page":"25","article-title":"Postoperative evaluation of the surgical treatment of accessory teat and gland cistern complexes in dairy cows","volume":"35","author":"Schmit KA","year":"1994","unstructured":"Schmit KA, Arighi M, Dobson H. 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