Neurology

In the field of equine neurology, there has been the discovery of a few new disorders, in addition to some newer diagnostics, and/or therapeutics.

Disease processes are categorized into Congenital, Degenerative, Developmental, Inflammatory, Metabolic, Neoplastic, Traumatic and Miscellaneous processes.

Case 1: Herd of 150 Angus crossbred cows, gave birth to these calves.

Question 1: Is it a primary neurological disease? Question 2: Is it rostral or caudal to foramen magnum?

Generalized weakness can present a formidable problem solving challenge for the veterinary clinician.

If the owner calls your clinic first, and states that the animal is recumbent, instruct them to transport the animal on a plywood stretcher or similar firm support system if at all possible.

A modern-age solution for an old-age problem

A frantic owner brings in a 4-year-old Scottish terrier that cannot use its back legs after a collapse.

Practitioners provide veterinary care for a growing number of meat goats in the United States - animals known to develop neurological disease.

Clients frequently use the term "seizure" to describe many different episodic events.

The primary goal is to treat the underlying disorder.

Animals with acute intervertebral disk extrusion are almost always painful.

Tetraparesis or tetraplegia is a neurological condition in which all four limbs are weak (paresis) or paralyzed (plegia).

Overview of equine rabies, equine herpes virus-1, and parasitic infection of the CNS

Fibrocartilagenous embolus(i) is an acute spinal cord infarction(s) caused by microscopic spinal vessel occlusion by material histologically resembling the intervertebral disk (nucleus pulposus).

Acquired myasthenia gravis is an immune-mediated disorder in which autoantibodies develop against the neuromuscular junction acetylcholine receptors (AChR).

The primary concerns for anesthesia for dogs with spinal neurologic disease are the need to prevent pulmonary aspiration of gastric fluid if food has not been withheld, to maintain a low intracranial pressure (ICP) and therefore a low spinal cord pressure, and the provision for pain management.

Dr. C.W. Dewey gave an excellent lecture at the 2007 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum on ?Recent and Upcoming Developments with the New Anticonvulsant Drugs.?

A chief concern with any trauma that causes frontal or poll injury is possible damage to the central nervous system.

In four videos, Dr. Joan R. Coates demonstrates how to perform a neurologic exam in a dog.

Part 1 of performing a neurologic examination.

Part 2 of performing a neurologic examination.

Part 3 of performing a neurologic examination.

Part 4 of performing a neurologic examination.

Laser disk ablation, a procedure for preventing thoracolumbar intervertebral disk herniation in dogs, has been developed and performed in more than 350 dogs at the Oklahoma State University Center for Veterinary Health Sciences.