Hypoplasia means underdevelopment or incomplete growth of a specific part or organ in the body. it can happen during fetal development or after birth.
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Dr. Decker also shares her home with two cats with
cerebellar hypoplasia named Liza & Splash, a German Shepherd named Zoey, and a yellow - tailed gecko named Perrywinkle.
The U.S. registration organization, CERF, reported the incidence in the U.S. of
choroidal hypoplasia, optic disc / nerve coloboma and retinal detachment among several affected breeds over the period of 1991 to 1999.
Type III breasts included
hypoplasia of the lower medial and lateral quadrants.
Many lactation consultants only encounter mothers with
breast hypoplasia after discharge when they are referred with their infants in various states of nutritional compromise.
Optic
nerve hypoplasia with the double - ring sign, increased cup - disc ratio, attenuated blood vessels, gross pigment mottling, and chorioretinal scar in the macular region.
The distemper virus can cause cerebellar
hypoplasia in a kitten, a condition in which the cerebellum doesn't develop properly.
If a dog has had clear exams with no mention of
iris hypoplasia and later is found to have it, the condition either was missed nor not recorded in the prior exams.
For the serious condition of
tracheal hypoplasia of the 779 dogs evaluated 5.9 % were abnormal and 9.8 % had equivocal findings.
Mutations affecting molecules involved in producing tRNAs have been implicated in human neurological disorders, such as
pontocerebellar hypoplasia (PCH), a currently incurable neurodegenerative disease affecting children.
Lung branching abnormalities underlie the etiology of many lung diseases including
pulmonary hypoplasia (PH), a congenital state of incomplete development of the lungs.
In clinical safety studies, some dogs that received 3 or 5 times the maximum recommended dosage of Iverhart Max for 6 months presented with
testicular hypoplasia.
Veterinary Record 153: 107 - 112 Rusbridge C and Knowler SP, 2004 Inheritance of Occipital
Bone Hypoplasia (Chiari type I malformation) in Cavalier King Charles spaniels.
However, first of all, you have to examine pups very carefully from a very young age (starting by 5 - 6 weeks postnatal) to detect all the ones that «go normal», as some pups exhibiting unmistakeable choroidal
hypoplasia by 6 weeks old, will have no ophthalmoscopically detectable lesions by 9 weeks old.
«Although clinicians have known about optic nerve
hypoplasia for some time, the nature of the pathology was not clearly understood,» said Konark Mukherjee, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
In each case, the lncRNAs were elevated in prostate cancer patient samples, but not in patients with benign
prostate hypoplasia or normal healthy individuals.
Health problems in this breed include copper toxicosis, distichiasis and renal
cortical hypoplasia.
Cabbits are usually Manx - type cats with an additional deformity such as spina bifida; cats with peculiarly short front legs due to radial hypoplasia [RH](Twisty Cats and the Ethics of Breeding for Deformity) or one of the several bobtailed cat breeds (Bobtailed and Tailless Cats).
See GENETICS: Inherited Neurological Disorders for the following disorders: Ataxia (Cerebella Abiotrophy) Canine Neuronal Lipofuscinosis (CCL & NCL) Cerebellar
Hypoplasia Congenital Myasthenia Gravis Deafness Degenerative Myelopathy (DM) Epilepsy - Hydrocephalus - Intervertebral Disk Disease Myasthenia Gravis Myopathy (X-Linked Muscular Dystrophy) Spina Bifida
We have heard from many women with breast
hypoplasia who felt frustrated by health professionals, lay breastfeeding counselors, and LCs who suggested that the mother would improve her poor production simply by working harder to stimulate her breasts.
The lactation consultants I saw told me they see ppl with
hypoplasia all the time.
All of the patients were found to have significant
fovea hypoplasia (an underdevelopment of the macula, the center of the retina), a characteristic not commonly seen in other achromatopsia patients.
«There has always been this question of whether optic nerve
hypoplasia occurred during development or if the visual system degenerated after the normal course of development.
Tom was born with a rare genetic disorder called
mandibular hypoplasia, or MDP syndrome, which doesn't allow his body to store any fat.
Each has joined the pack led by their dog Slider, the family's 5 - year - old «foster failure,» whose
cerebral hypoplasia led the Joneses to adopt her at 5 months old.
If a dog has only choroidal
hypoplasia sometimes the natural pigment in the back of the eye hides its presence.
It tests for the gene mutation that causes choroidal
hypoplasia which is present in all CEA dogs.
The result is the percentage of collies affected with choroidal
hypoplasia remains high, but the severe grades of the disease (colobomas and retinal detachments) have decreased due to this conscientious breeding.
Focal dysplasia of pancreatic acinar tissue and
marked hypoplasia of seminiferous tubules, depletion of adrenal lipid, and focal atrophy of the skin have been reported.
These puppies are not subject to tracheal
hypoplasia often seen in the English bulldog.
While 15 % of the dogs tested had at least one copy of the choroidal
hypoplasia mutation, it is important to remember that the only dogs likely to be tested are those who are at risk of being carriers.
Just before his second birthday, through a liver biopsy, Finn was diagnosed with Primary Portal
Vein Hypoplasia (PPVH) with portal hypertension.
(ref) How virus - induced cerebellar
hypoplasia influences a kitten's growth rate is highly variable - even in kittens from the same litter.
The primary phenotypic element of the disorder is
regional hypoplasia of the choroid, the highly vascular layer underlying the retina.
A
selective hypoplasia of the cerebellar vermis is also seen in dogs, and when combined with hydrocephalus and cyst - like dilatation of the fourth ventricle, the condition has been termed the Dandy - Walker syndrome, which may have a familial basis.
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