Sentences with phrase «pigmentary uveitis»

This disease also goes by the names Golden Retriever Uveitis, and also Pigmentary Uveitis; the most recently embraced term, however, is GRPU.

Description: If you see old golden retrievers in your practice, then you need to learn about Golden Retriever Pigmentary Uveitis.

An eye disease called pigmentary uveitis is of emerging concern in the breed, and while it is believed to have a genetic basis, at this time there are no satisfactory tools that breeders can use to be certain to avoid producing affected puppies.

Please see «Pigmentary Uveitis Letter to Owners» on the Health Section of the GRCA website www.grca.org for more information about this disease, including recommendations to help reduce the risks of the most significant health consequences.

In particular, pigmentary uveitis often develops very late in life.

Dr. Rachel Keller immediately diagnosed Piper with pigmentary uveitis in both eyes, a condition common to golden retrievers, in which an inflammation develops and may block the normal drainage of fluids from the eye, resulting in higher than normal pressure within the eye, or glaucoma.

A message from Dr Townsend: «A critical current need for the research to find the gene causing Golden Retriever pigmentary uveitis is DNA from older dogs that are unaffected with the condition.

Pigmentary Uveitis (PU) is a disease of the eye, it seems to be found at around age 8, but there are many cases found much earlier (2) and some much later.

For more information about pigmentary uveitis, please see the Health Section of the GRCA website www.grca.org.

We have to be absolutely sure that the Goldens we think are clear of pigmentary uveitis truly are clear as we start screening genes.

Golden Retriever Pigmentary Uveitis (GRPU) was first described and published in 1996 within the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Genetic Committee report of «Ocular Disorders Presumed to be Inherited in Purebred Dogs».

There has been a great deal of discussion regarding pigmentary uveitis since it was first described as a disease of Golden Retrievers (Sapienza et al, 2000).

Pigmentary Uveitis (PU) or Pigmentary Cystic Glaucoma (PCG) is a bilateral inherited disease of Golden Retrievers.

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