The slope causes the tibia to slide forward unless it is restrained by
an intact cranial cruciate ligament.
Not exact matches
There is a reduced incidence of
cranial cruciate ruptures in
intact dogs and bitches.
An examination of health records of 759 Golden Retrievers by researchers with the University of California - Davis discovered significantly higher incidents of hip dysplasia,
cranial cruciate ligament tears, lymphosarcomas, hemangiosarcomas, and mast cell tumors among neutered dogs, compared with sexually
intact dogs.
Percentages and number of cases over the total sample size for each neutering status group;
intact and neutered early or late for male Golden Retrievers (1 — 8 years old) diagnosed with hip dysplasia (HD),
cranial cruciate ligament tear (CCL), lymphosarcoma (LSA), hemangiosarcoma (HSA), and / or mast cell tumor (MCT) at the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital of the University of California, Davis, from 2000 — 2009.
(15) In the Golden Retriever survey, there was no occurrence of
cranial cruciate ligament tears in either
intact male or
intact female dogs, or in late - neutered females.
BCS was stated as not being found in every record included in this study, but statistics were calculated and found to show no significant difference between
intact and neutered animals in any of the diseases studied, including hip dysplasia and
cranial cruciate ligament disease.
A more recent publication from U.C. Davis (de la Riva, Hart et al, 2013) looked at two joint disorders and three cancers — hip dysplasia,
cranial cruciate ligament tear, lymphosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma and mast cell tumor — and showed that, for all five diseases analyzed, the disease rates were significantly higher in both males and females that were neutered either early or late compared with
intact (non-neutered) dogs.