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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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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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Hypothyroidism is an endocrine disorder caused by inadequate production of thyroid hormones, most often thyroxine, resulting in a slowed metabolic rate and systemic clinical signs.

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Brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome is a constellation of upper airway abnormalities in brachycephalic dogs, commonly including stenotic nares, elongated soft palate, everted laryngeal saccules, aberrant turbinates, and hypoplastic trachea, that increase airway resistance and impair normal breathing.

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Idiopathic epilepsy is a chronic seizure disorder characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures without an identifiable structural brain lesion, metabolic disorder, toxin exposure, or other underlying cause on routine diagnostic evaluation.

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Epilepsy is a chronic neurologic disorder characterized by recurrent seizures caused by abnormal, excessive electrical activity in the brain.

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Pulmonic stenosis is congenital obstruction of blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery, most commonly at the pulmonic valve, causing right ventricular pressure overload, murmur, exercise intolerance, syncope, or right-sided heart failure in severe cases.

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Subaortic stenosis is a congenital left ventricular outflow tract obstruction caused by fibrous or fibromuscular tissue below the aortic valve, increasing pressure load on the left ventricle and risk of arrhythmia, syncope, heart failure, or sudden death.

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Aortic stenosis is narrowing at the aortic valve or aortic outflow region that obstructs blood leaving the left ventricle, increasing cardiac workload and potentially causing murmurs, exercise intolerance, syncope, heart failure, or sudden death.

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