coxofemoral Displasia

Displasia of hip is a hereditary and congenital disease of the hip of the dogs. Displasia consists of a bad positioning of the femoral head with respect to acetábulo, so that the extremity, in the support, tends to produce a greater tonsión of the normal thing in the capsule to articulate of the hip of the dog and the luxación of the femoral head with respect to acetábulo. Displasia produces pain in the joint and inflammation. With time, this joint degenerates in a artrosis.

It produces in the dog a weakness of the later extremities, undulation of the later part, difficulty when rising and when raising the stairs. The definitive diagnosis is made by means of radiográficos examinations as of the 6 months of age, this disease most frequently pronounces in Ovejero Alemán, Belgian Ovejero, Farm Retriever, Golden to retriever, Rottweiler, Collie and Viejo English Shepherd.

The typical picture includes/understands a giving up that usually is worse during the morning. The cojera worsens the cold, humid and rainy days, and after a forced exercise the signs can be exacerbar, as it happens in the jumps forced in the training for obedience.
Many of these dogs feel like and avoid the movements, even during a calm stroll with the proprietor.
Many doubt to raise stairs or they refuse to jump steps, great number of these units they do not lower stairs or they show few desires to do it and many tend to sleep over cold cement floors, as far as possible.
According to the gravity is described it in degree 1, 2, and 3, being the one of the most serious degree 3.

The treatment is surgical or palliative, according to the case, where analgesic regenerators are used osteoarticulares and of last generation, that produces a partial recovery or delays the advance of the disease and calms the pain, medicando to the animal during all their life with very good results.

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Author: MV Enrique L. Fernandez De Vanna

 

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