Not exact matches
Brachycephalic Upper Airway
Syndrome (BUAS)
including soft palate resection, laryngeal sacculectomy, stenotic nares repair
Signs of
brachycephalic syndrome include inspiratory stridor (a very noisy wheezing sound), exercise intolerance, gagging or vomiting, coughing and reverse sneezing.
Dr. Philipp Mayhew, an associate professor in the Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, got a grant for a multi-departmental collaboration — with Dr. Stanley Marks in Medicine and Epidemiology — to study the effect of upper - airway surgical treatment on
brachycephalic dog breeds (
including Bulldogs, Boston terriers, pugs, boxers, shih tzus, Pekingese) with obstruction
syndrome in their lower esophageal area.
The Pekingese Club of America has made available on its website under «Pekingese Health» several articles on the subject of restricted airways,
including «
Brachycephalic Airway
Syndrome» and «The Breath of Life» by Terill Udenberg, DVM, as well as other articles of interest on the subject.
Brachycephalic (having a short, flat skull)
syndrome comes with an array of respiratory disorders,
including elongated soft palate.
Secondary abnormalities in dogs with
brachycephalic airway
syndrome may
include hypoplastic trachea, overly enlarged tonsils and collapsed larynx.
The most commonly recorded fine level disorders within the URT group
included brachycephalic obstructive airway
syndrome (BOAS)(2.4 %), URT disorder (2.1 %), and stenotic nares (1.7 %).