Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is idiopathic avascular necrosis of the femoral head and neck in growing dogs, leading to collapse, deformity, hip pain, lameness, and secondary osteoarthritis.
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Patellar luxation is displacement of the patella from the femoral trochlear groove, usually medially or laterally, with severity graded by how easily and how persistently the kneecap moves out of place.
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Canine elbow dysplasia is a group of developmental abnormalities of the elbow joint, including joint incongruity, fragmented coronoid process, ununited anconeal process, and osteochondrosis, that cause lameness and osteoarthritis.
Comments closedChondrodystrophy is a heritable skeletal trait associated with an FGF4 retrogene insertion on chromosome 12 that causes disproportionate short-limb conformation and premature intervertebral disc degeneration, increasing IVDD risk.
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Cranial cruciate ligament disease is progressive degeneration, partial tearing, or complete rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament of the stifle, causing joint instability, synovitis, meniscal injury, and secondary osteoarthritis.
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Intervertebral disc disease is degeneration, protrusion, or extrusion of intervertebral disc material that can compress the spinal cord or nerve roots and cause pain, neurologic deficits, paralysis, or bladder dysfunction.
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Canine hip dysplasia is abnormal development of the coxofemoral joint, causing joint laxity, subluxation, poor ball-and-socket fit, and progressive osteoarthritis.
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Gastric dilatation-volvulus is acute distension and rotation of the stomach that causes gastric outflow obstruction, impaired venous return, shock, tissue ischemia, cardiac arrhythmias, and rapid death without emergency treatment.
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Canine atopic dermatitis is a genetically predisposed, chronic, inflammatory, pruritic skin disease associated with hypersensitivity to environmental allergens and impaired skin barrier function.
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AMS is a genetic nerve problem where the dog doesn’t feel pain in the feet normally. That sounds like a small detail until the dog chews a paw bloody and still acts like everything’s fine. Pain is supposed to stop an animal from wrecking its own body. With AMS, that alarm system doesn’t do its job, and the paws get stuck paying the bill.
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