Sentences with phrase «of choroidal hypoplasia»

The disease is reminiscent of the choroidal hypoplasia phenotype observed in humans in conjunction with craniofacial or renal abnormalities.

Not exact matches

If a dog has only choroidal hypoplasia sometimes the natural pigment in the back of the eye hides its presence.

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.

Border Collie breeders are usually very proactive in testing for the genetic diseases Collie Eye Anomaly / Choroidal Hypoplasia, Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis and Trapped Neutrophil Syndrome, but you should check with your breeder before buying a Border Collie on the status of their dogs for genetic diseases.

Collie Eye Anomaly (CEA)-- a complex of congenital defects including choroidal hypoplasia, also called chorioretinal dysplasia — a thinning of the vascular tissue within the eye), optic disc coloboma / staphloma — incomplete development of the optic nerve where it enters the eye, and retinal dysplasia or detachment — sections of retina, the vision reception tissue, that are not properly attached to the wall of the eye.

All dogs with CEA have bilateral choroidal hypoplasia (CH), also called chorioretinal dysplasia, a thinning of the vascular tissue in the back of the eye which does not significantly impair vision.

Ultimately he discovered that the recessive nature of the disease is due to a single gene of major effect that causes choroidal hypoplasia, the primary CEA defect.

Examples of the latter might include: choroidal hypoplasia in breeds not previously identified as having Collie Eye Anomaly, optic nerve colobomas, microphthalmia, multi-focal retinopathy in breeds not yet recognized as having CMR mutations, etc..

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.