■法国斗牛犬会受到多种神经系统疾病的影响,脊髓病是神经系统症状最常见的原因。缺乏针对该品种宫颈疾病流行病学的研究。这项研究旨在描述引起颈椎疼痛和/或颈椎病体征的神经系统病变的患病率。假设椎间盘突出是最常见的疾病;第二个目的是评估法国斗牛犬的脊柱区域中不同病理共存的频率。
■对单个转诊中心(AniCuraIPortoniRossi兽医医院-ZolaPredosa,博洛尼亚,意大利)进行了表演,包括法国斗牛犬,表现为颈部疼痛和/或与脊髓型颈椎病一致的神经功能缺损。回顾了临床和影像学数据,并将其用作纳入标准。根据MRI诊断的疾病数量,符合条件的狗分为三组。
■一百五只法国斗牛犬符合入选标准。最常诊断为椎间盘突出症(66.9%),其次是C2特发性肥厚性神经节神经炎(15.1%),宫颈脊髓空洞症(11.5%),先天性骨畸形(1.4%),脊髓蛛网膜憩室(1.4%),肿瘤(1.4%),类固醇反应性脑膜炎-动脉炎(0.7%),创伤性椎骨骨折(0.7%),和其他(0.7%)。对于绝大多数狗(75/105),诊断为单一病理,椎间盘突出占病例的86.7%,最常见的是C3-C4IVD。在剩下的30只狗中,检测到两种或三种不同的并发疾病。在这30只狗中,椎间盘突出症仍然是诊断最多的疾病,合并C2特发性肥厚性神经节神经炎和脊髓空洞症19例和7例,分别。
■这项研究的结果突出表明,法国斗牛犬的不同病理状况会影响颈脊髓,椎间盘突出是最常见的疾病,如先前在兽医文献中所述。在几乎三分之一的案例中,不同的病理可以在宫颈水平共存。然而,对于同时存在不同病理的情况,并不总是可以清楚地确定其临床意义。
UNASSIGNED: French bulldogs can be affected by several neurological diseases, with myelopathies representing the most frequent cause of neurological signs. Studies focusing on the epidemiology of cervical diseases in this breed are lacking. This study aims to describe the prevalence of neurological pathologies responsible for cervical pain and/or signs of cervical myelopathy, assuming that intervertebral disc herniation represents the most common disease; a second aim was to evaluate how often different pathologies coexist in this spinal region in French bulldogs.
UNASSIGNED: A retrospective analysis of medical records from the database of a single referral center (AniCura I Portoni Rossi Veterinary Hospital-Zola Predosa, Bologna, Italy) was performed, including French bulldogs presented for neck pain and/or neurological deficits consistent with cervical myelopathy. Clinical and imaging data were reviewed and used as inclusion criteria. Based on the number of MRI-diagnosed diseases, the eligible dogs were divided into three groups.
UNASSIGNED: One hundred five French bulldogs met the inclusion criteria. The most commonly diagnosed condition was an intervertebral disc herniation (66.9%), followed by C2 idiopathic hypertrophic ganglioneuritis (15.1%), cervical
syringomyelia (11.5%), congenital osseous malformations (1.4%), spinal arachnoid diverticula (1.4%), neoplasms (1.4%), steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (0.7%), traumatic vertebral fractures (0.7%), and other (0.7%). For the vast majority of dogs (75/105) a single pathology was diagnosed, with intervertebral disc herniations accounting for 86.7% of cases, involving C3-C4 IVD most commonly. In the remaining 30 dogs, two or three different and concurrent diseases were detected. Among these 30 dogs, intervertebral disc herniations still remained the most diagnosed condition, in combination with C2 idiopathic hypertrophic ganglioneuritis and
syringomyelia in 19 and seven cases, respectively.
UNASSIGNED: The results of this study highlight that different pathologies can affect the cervical spinal cord in French bulldogs, with intervertebral disc herniations representing the most frequent condition, as previously described in the veterinary literature. In almost a third of cases, different pathologies can coexist at the cervical level. However, for cases in which different pathologies are present at the same time, it is not always possible to clearly establish their clinical significance.