Intervertebral Disk Degeneration in Dogs: Consequences, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Future Directions

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

N.D. Jeffery²  J.M. Levine¹  N.J. Olby³ 

[1]Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

[2]Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

[3]College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

关键词: Compression;    Computed tomography;    Contusion;    Magnetic resonance imaging;    Prognosis;    Spinal cord injury;   

DOI  :  10.1111/jvim.12183

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

Evidence of intervertebral disk degeneration (IVDD) is extremely common in dogs, and its prevalence increases with age. It has many important consequences because degeneration of the intervertebral disks often is a prelude to disk herniation, which can injure the spinal cord, spinal nerves, or both. This review summarizes the advances in diagnosis and treatment of IVDD that have been made since the 1950s when the first detailed description of the degenerative changes was published. It also discusses new approaches to treatment of the associated spinal cord injury and new methods by which to classify injury severity that are currently under development.

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