A 1-year-old male castrated Pug was referred for unilateral exophthalmos unresponsive to oral antibiotic and anti-inflammatory therapy. Clinical findings included exophthalmos of the left eye with lateral strabismus, resistance to retropulsion, and an elevated nictitans. Hematologic and biochemical analyses were within normal limits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To review the clinical features, treatments, complications, and outcomes of horses with traumatic orbital fractures.
Study Design: Retrospective study.
Sample Population: Eighteen horses with confirmed orbital fractures.
Objective: To evaluate the success rate and outcome of trans-corneal reduction of anterior lens luxation (TR-ALL) in dogs with lens instability.
Animals Studied: Nineteen dogs with anterior lens luxation.
Procedures: Medical records of dogs with anterior lens luxation (ALL) were reviewed: dogs were included if TR-ALL was performed followed by medical therapy in the form of topical 0.
J Am Vet Med Assoc
December 2013
Objective: To describe clinical, microbiological, in vivo confocal microscopic, and histopathologic features of fungal keratitis in alpacas and to estimate prevalence of the disease in a population of alpacas from the northeastern United States.
Design: Retrospective case series. Animals-11 alpacas.
Objective: To perform a randomized, placebo-controlled, masked clinical trial using a cross-over design to determine the effect of oral diphenhydramine on aqueous tear production in normal dogs.
Animals Studied: Seventeen dogs with normal ophthalmic examinations.
Procedures: Baseline tear production was established for each dog by performing Schirmer tear test I (STT I).
Objective: To describe feline periocular cutaneous mast cell tumor (CMCT) clinical features, rates of local tumor recurrence and metastases, and cat survival time following surgical excision.
Animals Studied: Thirty-three cats with periocular CMCTs.
Procedures: Medical records of cats diagnosed with periocular CMCTs were reviewed; cats were included if CMCTs were surgically excised and the diagnosis confirmed by histopathology.
Objective: To evaluate dogs with amaurosis and compare signalment, history, ophthalmic examination and neurologic abnormalities between dogs diagnosed with sudden acquired retinal degeneration syndrome (SARDS) versus neurological disease (ND). Animals Studied-140 dogs with acute vision loss and ocular abnormalities insufficient to account for visual deficits. An electroretinogram (ERG) was performed on each dog.
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