Sentences with phrase «luxation affects»

Patellar luxation affects both knees in half of all cases, potentially resulting in discomfort and loss of function.

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Patellar luxation can affect either or both legs.The most common occurrence of luxating patella is the medial presentation in small or miniature dog breeds.

Other conditions that could affect the breed include progressive retinal atrophy, von Willebrand disease, patellar luxation, hypothyroidism, and epilepsy.

Patellar luxation can also affect some Bull Terriers.

Some of the inherited disorders known to affect the breed include hip dysplasia, patellar luxation, progressive retinal atrophy and hereditary myopathy.

Patients with grade IV luxation often present with continual lameness or are non — weightbearing on the affected limb, with weight shifted cranially at a stance and while walking.

quite categorically that if lens luxation occurs in a litter then BOTH parents must, at the very least, carry the affected (n) allele.

Where both knees are affected, the degree of luxation in each may be different, where one may be affected more or less so than the other.

Some of the conditions that might affect Corkies include hypothyroidism, eye problems, skin problems, patellar luxation, hip dysplasia, allergies, reverse sneezing, epilepsy, collapsed trachea, hypoglycemia, portosystemic shunts, and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.

Some of the known issues that may affect this breed include hip dysplasia, patellar luxation, hypothyroidism, and eye problems.

Atlantoaxial luxation typically affects young, small breed dogs such as the Yorkshire Terrier, Toy Poodle and Chihuahua but any breed or age can be affected.

Usually, small size dog gets affected by Patellar Luxation including Chihuahua but the rate of getting knees problem among this dog breed is quite low.

This is especially important if one eye has already been affected by, or lost through, luxation.

The most well documented health condition affecting Miniature Bull Terriers is Primary Lens Luxation.

Primary lens luxation in the affected breeds is inherited.

This depends upon the grade of the luxation and whether both legs are affected to the same degree.

In other cases, a medical history of intermittent lameness may be suggestive of this problem, and your veterinarian will confirm that the lameness is caused by a patellar luxation during examination of the affected leg.

The symptoms of patellar luxation include intermittent lameness, an unusual «skipping» on the affected leg when the cat walks or runs, or difficulty in jumping.

In these breeds, spontaneous luxation of the lens occurs in early adulthood (most commonly 3 - 6 years of age) and often affects both eyes, although not necessarily at the same time.

Developmental patellar luxation is therefore no longer considered an isolated disease of the knee, but rather a consequence of a complex skeletal abnormalities affecting the overall alignment of the limb, including:

According to The Merck Veterinary Manual, Seventh Edition, luxation may occur on an intermittent basis, especially in the congenitally affected small breeds.

Eye problems, epilepsy, IVDD (a spinal disorder), thyroid issues, patella luxations, leggs perthes all can affect this breed — however there are tests that can be done and for breeding dogs should be done as some problems are genetic.

Dogs affected with this condition will exhibit some combination of the following: Microphthalmia, eccentric pupils, coloboma or other irregularities of the iris, lens luxation, cataract, retinal dysplasia or detachment, persistent pupillary membrane, equatorial staphyloma or lack of a tapetum.

In addition it can be seen in the Collie with Collie Eye Anomaly as well as in the breeds affected by primary glaucoma and / or lens luxation.

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].