Estudo retrospectivo dos achados radiográficos em coluna vertebral de cães com alterações na marcha

Abstract

With the growing of complementary imaging tests, evaluation of patients at the clinic of small animals obtained great progress, given that these media provide better identification of structures and increase accuracy in the diagnosis of diseases of different organ systems. The routine of do radiographs also provides a series of findings without value to the current patient's clinical and in some cases, non-visualization of the primary pathology limitations related to diagnostic method employed. With this work, was made a study investigating possible radiographic findings in patients who have a disability in walking (motor or sensory pathways), whether those findings could explain the clinical conditions of the patients. This kind of study is used in clinical trials, where a small number of individuals are in. Survey was conducted radiographic reports requests related to Spinal dogs, September 2013 to August 2014, at the radiology department of a Veterinary Clinic, located in Rio de Janeiro City, in the West Zone, September 2013 to December 2014 of the Small Animal Veterinary Hospital at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) and from a veterinary radiologist. The assessment covered all reports related to any of the segments of the spine. At the end of the evaluation, we obtained the percentage of pathological changes in radiographs that were described in the reports, in relation to clinical complaints on requests after clinical examination. The reports were about spines of 280 dogs, 148 (52.86%) males and 132 (47.14%) females, with the average age of females was 8.1 years and the males was 7,5 years. Vertebral regions most X-rayed during the period under study were isolated lumbar and thoracic with lumbar and the most frequent alteration was reduction of the intervertebral space, totaling 40.1% of cases in which they had found. The study found that the racial mixture, known as Mixed Breed Dog (MBD), is widespread in the domestic environment in large quantities, and this breed best imaged with 36.79% of the reports.