Sentences with phrase «from lens luxation»
The Lancashire may suffer from lens luxation (lens dislocation) and patella luxation (kneecap dislocation).
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Secondary glaucoma is caused by chronic inflammation, lens luxation, trauma, and intraocular tumors, all of which obstruct drainage of fluid from the eye through the iridocorneal angle.
In the condition of luxation (dislocation), the lens breaks away from its retaining attachments within the eye and becomes free.
LIU, in turn, can cause glaucoma, retinal detachment, and / or lens luxation (slippage of the lens from its attachments, allowing the lens to float around inside the eye and cause damage and pain).
For elbow dysplasia, hip dysplasia, patellar luxation, DCM, early onset cataracts, and lens luxation there were differences in risk for the mixed breeds from that seen in the general population that represented either an increase in risk for neutered females (elbow and hip dysplasia, DCM, and cataracts) or a decrease risk in neutered males (patellar luxation).
Primary lens luxation (PLL) is not a disease of the lens itself, but rather an inherited deterioration of the lens suspensory apparatus, the zonule, which is a system of fibres that suspend the lens from the ciliary body, maintaining it within the visual axis and in contact with the anterior surface of the vitreous body.
In dogs affected with PLL ultrastructural abnormalities of the zonular fibers are already evident at 20 months of age [120] long before the lens luxation that typically occurs when the dogs are 3 to 8 years old, as a result of degeneration and breakdown of the zonules which cause the lens to be displaced from its normal position within the eye [121 — 124].
When partial or complete breakdown of the zonular ligaments occurs, the lens may become partially dislocated (Lens Subluxation) or fully dislocated (Lens Luxation) from the lens» normal position.
Another eye disease that these dogs can suffer from is lens luxation, where the lens of your dog's eye separates either partially or completely.